Rough Night Movie Review | Screen Rant. Rough Night offers an entertaining genderswap on the bromantic comedy, which especially works thanks to its Broad City brand of humor. Rough Night starts off in 2. Jess (Scarlett Johansson), Alice (Jillian Bell), Blair (Zoë Kravitz), and Frankie (Ilana Glazer) were best friends in college, attending fraternity parties together and winning beer pong championships. And, with their lives poised to change with Jess soon heading out on a study abroad program, the four promised to be best friends forever. Ten years later, Jess is running for office – and losing to a male candidate who regularly posts photos of his penis to social media – Alice is an elementary school teacher who cares for her mother with Alzheimer’s, Blair is going through a divorce and fighting her ex for custody of their son, and Frankie is a professional activist. Home Urban Art and Street Art Forum with Print Release Gallery news and Art For Sale. 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Downs) begins the trek to meet up with her in Miami to figure out if they’re still going to get married. The titular rough night for Jess and her friends will prove to either destroy or strengthen their relationships as they try to hide the crime they’ve committed. Zoe Kravitz, Jillian Bell, Scarlett Johansson, Ilana Glazer and Kate Mc. Kinnon in Rough Night. Rough Night is the feature- length directorial debut of Lucia Aniello, who along with her partner Downs, has written, produced, and directed a number of episodes on Comedy Central’s Broad City – which originally began as a webseries created by co- star Glazer and her comedy partner Abbi Jacobson. Aniello, Downs, and Glazer also recently worked together on the Comedy Central miniseries, Time Traveling Bong. The script to Rough Night was penned by Aniello with Downs, so it features much the same offbeat and raunchy humor employed on their Comedy Central series. Further, they put their own spin on the genre of wedding- focused buddy comedies that have arisen in recent years. Rough Night offers an entertaining genderswap on the bromantic comedy, which especially works thanks to its Broad City brand of humor. Much like comedies such as The Hangover and Bridesmaids, Rough Night takes the subject matter of an out- of- control lead up to a wedding to the extreme in order to mine humor from a friendship- focused rite of passage. However, Rough Night puts an arguably much darker spin on the comedy genre by basing its premise around the accidental murder of a male stripper. The shift in tone from the ladies’ night of hard partying – which holds a note of nostalgia to their college days – to the group panicking in the wake of the man’s death is a bit clunky. The movie largely nails the transition from relatively light- hearted fun to dark comedy, since all the events leading up to that turning point are heightened for the sake of humor, but the specific sequence is incredibly dark and incongruous, running the risk of taking viewers entirely out of the film. Ilana Glazer, Jillian Bell, Scarlett Johansson, Kate Mc. Kinnon, and Zoe Kravitz in Rough Night. For the most part though, the humor of Rough Night is fresh and offbeat in much the same way as Broad City, with the film mining comedy from all aspects of women’s experiences – the more taboo the better, be they masturbation or menstruation. And, with many of the leads in Rough Night having strong comedy backgrounds – particularly Bell, Glazer, and Mc. Kinnon – they’re able to carry off every joke to maximum effect. It no doubt helps that Bell and Glazer’s parts seem to have been written to the strengths of their respective comedic skills, while Mc. Kinnon proves again that she can excel in any type of offbeat character. For their part, Kravitz and Johansson work as the straight man types to their more wacky counterparts. Though both actresses are given a great deal of comedy material to work with, they’re often portraying the more grounded characters in a scene who elevate the humor of the others. Additionally helping Rough Night to work is the film’s strong supporting cast, which is comprised of a mixture of up and coming comedians and established stars. Ty Burrell and Demi Moore appear as the adventurous and oversexed neighbors to the person whose house Jess and her friends are staying in. Meanwhile, Peter’s group of friends at his bachelor party includes Hasan Minhaj, Bo Burnham, and Eric Andre. All the supporting players help to add unexpected elements to fill out Rough Night’s runtime beyond the lead characters panicking over their crime – though Burrell and Moore’s characters don’t feel that fresh considering the sexually adventurous older couple isn’t necessarily a new concept in comedy. Still, Peter’s bachelor party – a much more subdued wine tasting – gets the same heightened treatment as the main storyline, with his arc taking a sudden turn when he decides to drive through the night to meet up with Jess, and his methods of doing so are outrageous, to say the least. Zoe Kravitz, Jillian Bell, Scarlett Johansson, Kate Mc. Kinnon, and Ilana Glazer in Rough Night. In terms of the film’s ending though, Rough Night’s biggest weakness arrives in how the major plot thread is wrapped up quickly and tossed aside with a few lines of dialogue – albeit dialogue that proves to be one of the movie’s better jokes. Of course, in a comedy about friends reuniting and having their relationships tested, the conflict secondary to their friendships isn’t necessarily as important as where the characters stand by the end of the film. Rough Night may flounder a bit in the execution of its murdered stripper storyline, but effectively and compellingly resolves the conflicts among Jess, Alice, Blair, Frankie, and Pippa. And, since Rough Night is meant to be a woman- centric bromantic comedy, it’s forgivable the film skips over certain important details in order to focus on its lead characters. All in all, Rough Night is an entertaining take on the wedding- focused niche of comedy films that offers enough freshness to stand out among the pack that includes a handful of beloved movies. While it may not be an instant classic for fans of raunch comedy across the board, the Broad City- brand humor brought by Aniello and Downs, as well as the inclusion of Glazer, effectively differentiates Rough Night from other similar films. All told, Rough Night is a fun and fresh summer comedy perfect for fans of Broad City as well as those looking for an entertaining romp in the vein of The Hangover and Bridesmaids. Trailer. Rough Night is now playing in U. S. theaters. It is 1. R for crude sexual content, language throughout, drug use and brief bloody images. Let us know what you thought of the film in the comments section! Our Rating: 3 out of 5(Good)Key Release Dates. Rough Night release date: Jun 1. Rough Night': These Women Cutting Loose Just Don't Cut it. It’s hard enough being a woman filmmaker these days, but consider the plight of the woman filmgoer. It took years to get a big- budget Wonder Woman vehicle, and if you really must have role models in your movies, she’s probably not a bad one. But comedies in which women behave really badly—like 2. Bad Moms or Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, or the more recent Snatched—have become the happy- hour cosmo of moviegoing. They’re plentiful, and supposedly just the ticket for women looking for a “girls’ night out” picture, just something fun to see for kicks. But if they’re supposed to be just a diversion, why—one after another—do they torture us with so many questions? Am I supposed to like this? Is this supposed to be funny? Does this really represent what Hollywood thinks most—or even just many or some—women really want from big- screen entertainment? Rough Night, directed and co- written by Lucia Aniello—who has also written and directed numerous episodes of Broad City—is the latest entry in the “women whooping it up” genre, and it doesn’t make any of the above questions easier to answer. The movie—co- written by Paul Downs, Aniello’s boyfriend and writing partner, who also appears in the picture—is at its best when it catches the precise crosscurrent between sleazy and breezy. Scarlett Johansson is Jess, who’s launching a bid for state senator—she’s also about to be married, an adventure that just might be scarier than running for public office. Her old college clique—hoity- toity real- estate diva Blair (Zoë Kravitz), kooky activist Frankie (Ilana Glazer, of Broad City) and randy, insecure teacher Alice (Jillian Bell)—are spiriting her off to Miami for one last bachelorette weekend. They don’t know that she has also invited Pippa (Kate Mac. Kinnon), a college friend they don’t know—Jess met her while spending a year abroad. Pippa is Australian, a loopy good- time girl with an Earth- mother streak, and her accent is a wild ocean of exaggerated rolling vowels. She barges into the movie in an assortment of tropical- printed rompers and maxi dresses, and she gets the movie’s best lines—or maybe she only makes them the best, unreeling them like crazy- colored party streamers. The opening third of Rough Night is the best part of the movie and also the most predictable: The women get to Miami and commence partying, hard, immediately. Why is it funny when Frankie scores some coke and the women, at first reluctant to partake (one of them is running for public office, after all), end up descending upon it like gulls fighting for a scrap of fruit on a beach? Somehow the loose, coarse nuttiness of it works. There are props, including funny glasses with a fake penis where the nose should be. There’s a male stripper—make that two male strippers, at least in the literal sense that two brawny guys end up stripping down. But when the movie takes a sort- of dark turn into black- comedy territory, it starts to fall apart. The new, supposedly outrageous scenarios just aren’t as funny as the stock women- gone- wild gags. Ty Burrell and Demi Moore show up in tiny roles, as a kinky, predatory couple, but their oily come- ons are more limp than they are slippery. The idea behind Rough Night isn’t bad by itself, and it’s fun to watch Johansson cutting loose in a comedy for a change. The picture also offers a few sight gags that are pure, dumb genius: they just work. The sight of Downs, as Jess' fiance, gingerly and acrobatically polishing the windshield of an eighteen- wheeler—did I mention he’s wearing a diaper?—isn’t something you’re likely to forget soon.) But Rough Night tries hard to capture the pleasurably profane, uncorked spirit of Broad City and doesn’t quite succeed, maybe because the joys of the show lie in how casual and intimate it is. Its glimpses into believable neurotic behavior among women are larkish and offhand—but blown up for the big screen, they’re not quite enough to fill it. I laughed a few times at Rough Night, often at Mac. Kinnon and at least once at Downs in his diaper. And really, as Hangover- style dumb entertainments go, it’s certainly good enough. Which isn’t to say it’s anything close to what what women want.
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