Bish You Thought: ‘Girls Trip’ is the R-Rated Comedy that Wins

[divider type=”space_thin”] Whew, bish. Whoa, bish. First off let me say that Girls Trip is good AF and everybody needs to go see it at least twice! Okay, I’m good. But seriously, though. It’s been a while since I’ve had this much fun watching a movie (Spider-Man: Homecoming was fun but mad stressful, son). Like, I didn’t leave thinking about how much my ticket cost and how seeing movies in New York is a scam. As I walked out into the Brooklyn night, I wondered when I was gonna come see it again and who I was bringing with me (I have to see it with my cousin Ashley because this is us).

Girls Trip follows estranged college besties Ryan (Regina Hall), Sasha (Queen Latifah), Lisa (Jada Pinkett Smith), and Dina (Tiffany Haddish) as they reunite for a weekend of New Orleans fun during Essence Fest. Things get wild, of course, but in the best and most fun ways. Like, no one gets murdered. I never thought that would be a standard for my raunchy comedies, but Hollywood really loves disrupting a lituation with some good old homicide. Or kidnapping. Not here though! Ayyyyy!

This shit ain’t no joke though… One of the most beautiful things about this movie is that it loves Black people and Black women. New Orleans’ street musicians are rendered in loving detail as is the cultural cocoon that is the annual Essence Fest. It never feels like the jokes are punching down and Hall, Latifah, Smith, and Haddish are given the space to flex their comedic muscles like a dude doing reps at a co-…