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Jess Thayer (Scarlett Johansson), Alice (Jillian Bell), Blair (Zoë Kravitz), and Frankie (Ilana Glazer) are best friends since college. They are going on a bachelorette vacation in Miami. Jess is getting married and running for state senate. They are joined by Jess's Australian friend Pippa (Kate McKinnon) whom the other girls have never met. Jess reluctantly does cocaine with her girls and it only goes downhill after the dead male stripper.

It's a relatively bland comedy until the dead stripper. Then it becomes tonally challenged. It's not dark enough. It's definitely not funny enough. Every passable joke is outnumbered by ones that go flat. The guys are duds and Peter doesn't need this much screen time. The girls should do better than this. There are some funny bits but not everyone is playing at max level.

I love TV show Broad City and was looking forward to this because two of the creatives behind that show paired up to give us Rough Night. The generic title (a switch from Move that Body which was much more suitable) should have warned me. Rough Night is forgettable and not really that funny.

The movie starts out in 2006 where a group of 4 friends get drunk at Halloween, win a beer pong competition and vow to stay friends forever. Fast forward 10 years and the group is reuniting for Jess's (Scarlett Johansson, bland, bland, bland, comedy is NOT her forte) bachelorette weekend at a fancy house in Miami. They party, snort coke, are joined with Jess's Australian friend Pippa (Kate McKinnon in a role that MUST have been written for Rebel Wilson. Surely?). Her friends decide to get Jess a stripper and here is when things go wrong: high on coke they accidentally end up killing the stripper and things quickly spiral out of control as they first try to do the responsible thing of calling the police and then move on to hiding the body.

There was minor protests before the film being released about the movie making a punchline of killing sex workers but the film could have overcome this and he gruesome premise if not for a few things. First of all the women lack friendship chemistry. I don't believe any of these women were ever friends even if a big part of it is that they are supposed to have drifted apart. Second the casting is all awful. Scarlett is not a comedy actress and neither is Zoe Kravitz and it shows. Without being backed up by her hilariously crafted Broad City alter ego Ilana Glazer comes across as simply annoying. Kate McKinnon and Jillian Bell are probably the best with their characters but neither one is given much to do. McKinnon just leans hard into her accent and Bell is saddled with a "loser desperate friend who can't take a hint". The third thing is that the movie never quite finds it's tone. It struggles between "woke" dialogue for characters who are actually just mean and instead of simply leaning into the fact that these women are awful and allowing them to get even more absurdly awful it's way too protective of the characters and keeps trying to redeem them by making them "nice" people. It's both incredibly boring and keeps the movie from really flying.

Still, Rough Night isn't a total write off. There are enough funny lines and a subplot (involving Jess's fiancé who the movie allows to get into REALLY ridiculous shenanigans) to be watchable. Just wish that the script would have let the ladies turn loose too.

Unlikable characters cavort during a cocaine-fueled binge that results in a death. Did anyone read the script before signing up?

I watched this without looking at any reviews and actually really enjoyed it. It wasn't perfect but was still fun and entertaining and I did actually laugh out loud a good few times and felt good after watching it! Then I went on here to check out the reviews out of curiosity and they were terrible which would have made me not watch it! But I just wanted to say I did actually like it as a good fun girly movie!

Some momentary chuckles were the highlight.

For goodness sake get an Australian actress next time you want an Aussie accent. Wasn't even close and then she only kept it for about 2 lines.

Don't spend money on this

If Bridesmaids (2011) was proof that the ladies can play just as rough in delivering truly inspired raunch-com moments, then Rough Night is incontrovertible proof that they can also deliver mediocre fair with the same lack of conviction as their coasting male counterparts. Is it funny; yeah in spurts. Can it be a little cloying; yeah at times. Is it the best version of what it could be? Perhaps that's the wrong question.

Rough Night reunites college roommates Jess (Johansson), Alice (Bell) Blair (Kravitz) and Frankie (Glazer) who are planning one last blowout soiree before Jess takes the plunge into married life. They all rendezvous in sunny Miami, and meet up with Jess's friend from Australia Pippa (McKinnon). From there Alice plans a fun night on the town followed by a private party at their rented beach house. Things go terribly wrong however after the girls invite a stripper into the house and wind up with a dead body on their hands.

Part of what will end up working for you about Rough Night has a lot to do with you look for in a comedy. At times the film channels the frazzled energy of The Hangover (2009) while at others it's stretching for the "what are we going to do now" immediacy of a Guy Ritchie crime comedy. It sometimes sinks in the tepid character dynamics of a late-period Blake Edwards sex comedy while at others times it outright revels in pure absurdity. The center narrative stitch however is farce - trading on the buffoonery of our characters to establish much of the movie's important story elements.

This however becomes a crutch as the movie limps away from the halfway point. Once we get a good idea of what's going on, it becomes obvious that there just aren't enough levers for this movie to pull to keep everything going. And instead of relying on broad characters and an increasing array of improbable circumstances (the bread and butter of any good farce), the movie cuts back and forth between, not people but groups that are only tangentially related to the story proper. As a result Rough Night starves itself on its own lack of possibilities.

Such groups by the way, include Demi Moore and Ty Burrell who play sexed-up beach neighbors with an eye for Blair. Their inclusion results in one of the film's most problematic moments by far. On the other end we have Paul W. Downs and his groomsmen. The juxtaposition of Jess's gathering and Paul W. Downs's rather demure stag party provides the funniest moments in the entire film. And because Downs's moments start with the unexpected and only grow more bizarre from there, the man threatens to run away with what feels like a compromised movie. Ironic since its supposed to be about the women.

Look, if you really want to prime yourself for a good movie going experience, you shouldn't be asking yourself if this is the best movie they could have made with this kind of material. Instead ask yourself if this is the best movie that has been made out of this kind of material. In comparison to Stag (1996) and Very Bad Things (1998), Rough Night is clearly a winning choice. Though personally when it comes to movies about what to do with a dead body, the gold standard will always be Weekend at Bernie's (1989).

This movie is derivative of several other gross-out movies about bachelor party shenanigans, full of dopey people doing gross, stupid things. Penis jokes, male strippers, guzzling booze, doing drugs, all a a feverish 'isn't this funny?? Isn't it? Isn't it??' by people really too OLD to be acting so stupid.....Hey, spring break is for the stupid YOUNGER crowd. It's all wearying and tiresome, been done to death, and frankly it's just embarrassing. (anyone remember the 'WOOOO! Girls' in the bar, in the TV show 'How I Met Your Mother'? WOOOOO!) Good lord, Grow UP!

I thought Scarlet Johansson fancied herself a 'serious' actress. It seems she will take on any random role if she thinks it will make money. Did she really read the script and think, oh this is box office GOLD, it will really advance my career!.. Just being associated with this foolish movie is a really huge step back.

I really laughed through the movie and watching it made me feel better. It did not have a very innovative plot, but it was enjoyable. The fact that women were in the center of the movie, doing what ever they wanted was another interesting thing. I recommend watching the movie when you feel like you want to watch a comedy. Overall, It was a very good comedy movie.

Wow, I don't know how I can even have given it 2 points - everything about this movie sucks; it's badly written, bad acting, totally unfunny and a bunch of characters I couldn't care less about. It's absolute rubbish, totally predictable and you've seen it a million times before - you have been warned, watch at your own peril!

There are loads of negative reviews on this film so I'm here to give a slightly more positive one.

I enjoyed this film. I thought it was funny, entertaining, and the plot was not too predictable. Also, the acting was very impressive.

I watched this on a saturday night, and it made my evening very enjoyable. It's not supposed to be an intellectually challenging film, it's supposed to make you laugh. And it made me laugh a lot. The jokes were well played out, and the main characters were phenomenally acted, and sure- some of the jokes were immature and childish but that was part of the charm of this movie.

Based off of all of the other reviews I had read before watching I was expecting a really mundane film and it wasn't. The plot line was interesting, and even though there were one or two serious scenes I was still very much hooked on what was going on.

This film made me properly laugh out loud, and I really did enjoy it. Sure it wasn't incredible cinematography, and it didn't leave me thinking about the meaning of existence like many of Johanssons more notable films, but it was very enjoyable, and I would watch it again with friends. In fact, this film for me was even with how much I enjoyed bridesmaids, and maybe it's because I love Kate McKinnon and Scarlett Johansson, but I still think that despite the negative reviews this film deserves more love as the laid back comedy it is.

When I was a university student, we used to watch a lot of bad movies. Movies so bad they were good. Many of them were low budget horror, or sci-fi, or comedy, or horror-sci-fi-comedy. A lot of them went on to become cult classics - great examples of really bad movies that, if you went along for the ride, and could laugh at yourself a bit for watching them, actually had some merit in wasting away a couple of hours with friends late at night or nursing a hangover the day after.

This is not one of those movies.

This is utter tripe.

There is nothing funny about this movie, or in this movie. Just a bunch of actors who've made a really bad decision to appear in it.

Bad, bad, bad. Save yourself the self-loathing and avoid this movie at all costs.

Just watched this with my movie theatre-working friend. This was quite a funny and raunchy comedy about a reunion of four female college friends with one of them about to get married. The last one mentioned has a friend from Australia also join in the fun. Then the night turns a little dark. I'll stop there and just say this was funny enough for recommendation. I also liked some of the true-life real stories mentioned to give ideas to some of the characters. So on that note, go for it if you're curious about Rough Night.

i cant tell you how bad this movie is. it reminded me of a weekend at Bernie's but that was a lot funnier and everything about that seemed to gel where this didn't. if you want to watch a funny movie.. this isn't it. I found the some of the characters to be very annoying and not even funny. I couldn't watch all of it due to it being that bad.

'ROUGH NIGHT': Three and a Half Stars (Out of Five)

A dark comedy involving five friends that meet for a bachelorette party in Miami, ten years after four of them went to school together, and things go horribly wrong when they accidentally kill a male stripper. It stars Scarlett Johansson, Jillian Bell, Zoe Kravitz, Kate McKinnon and Ilana Glazer. Paul W. Downs, Demi Moore and Ty Burrell also costar in the film. It was directed by first time feature filmmaker Lucia Aniello, and it was written by Aniello and Downs (the duo also co-produced the flick). The movie's gotten better than average reviews from critics, but it's disappointed at the Box Office so far (many think for sexist reasons). I enjoyed it.

Jess (Johansson) is a somewhat successful politician that's currently running for office. She's also about to be married, and going on a bachelorette party, in Miami, with three old college friends (Bell, Kravitz and Glazer); whom she's become distant with over the years. Jess also invites her new friend, Pippa (McKinnon), who the others meet for the first time. After the girls all do cocaine together, and party at the clubs, they hire a stripper. When one of the friends accidentally kills the stripper, the women all panic and make things worse by trying to conceal their crime. The women all (of course) bond in the process.

The movie is funny, crude and very dark (until the end at least); all things that are great to see in a female driven film. The story is similar to a lot of previous dark male comedies though, but it's nice to see a female twist on it at least. I think all of the actresses do a good job in the movie, and it's mostly funny. I was disappointed with the climax though, which kind of gives the film a little bit too much of a lighter (more happy) ending. I don't want to ruin it for you, but the film is definitely not as dark as it promises to be.

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Gawd, who is this movie written for? Is it just an automatic money making "no-brainer" (and I mean that literally) to have a female coterie reunite years later for alcohol, partying, clubbing, male stripper all at an exclusive vacation locale? Plot has been done too many times including guys' versions. Fifty years of progress in portraying intelligent resourceful women has been reduced and characterized to loud intoxicated "b..hes" trying to outdo each other in acting the stupidest. Oh, more dumbness in added subplot of some stranger dying which expands into a not believable, suppose to be funny, crime clean up mess which itself has been done too many times in film. Demi Moore makes a brief appearance and as in "Blind" shows little acting skill. In both films she basically just hangs on some guy and smiles.

The bachelorette party comedy "Rough Night" (R, 1:41) brings together an element that Movie Fans rarely find on both sides of the camera – women. Well, women in prominent roles anyway. In 1982's "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", female characters had what were (for that era) relatively empowered roles, but the movie was still mainly about guys who were either pursuing girls or hanging out with their buds. Still, "Fast Times" was a bawdy comedy directed by a woman (Amy Heckerling) who, in the spirit of equality, shot full frontal female AND male nudity… although the latter had to be edited out in order to avoid the box office-killing "X" rating (eight years before NC-17 became an option). The next big step forward for women in R-rated comedies came 17 years later with the first "American Pie" in which the female characters were as sexually savvy and empowered as the male characters on that big screen.

Since the 21st century began, more such movies have shown us women operating on more-or-less equal footing with the men, sexually, socially and intellectually. Examples include, "Wedding Crashers" (2005), "Knocked Up" (2007), "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" (2008) (that one with more male than female nudity, thanks to Jason Segel's lack of inhibitions), "Adventureland" (2009) and, in 2011, "Horrible Bosses", "Bad Teacher" and, of course, "Bridesmaids", but all those movies were directed by men and written (mostly) by men, with the notable exception of that last one (thanks, Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo). However, despite the success of "Bridesmaids" at the box office and during the 2011-2012 awards season, the next six years only saw one R-rated comedy with women in vital roles both on screen and behind the scenes (2015's "Sisters", written by Paula Pell)… until 2017. It has been a long wait for a "Rough Night".

Scarlett Johansson is getting married! Well, her character Jess is anyway, so she's getting together with her four best friends from college for a bachelorette weekend in Miami. But things have changed a lot for (almost) all of them since the beer-pong and estrogen-fueled best years of their lives. Jess is a concerned citizen who is running for the state senate (!), Blair (Zoe Kravitz) and Frankie (Ilana Glazer) were a couple in college, but have grown apart – with Blair as a successful career woman who married (a man!) and Frankie as an unemployed semi-professional liberal activist. The person who has changed the least is the one who organized this getaway weekend, Alice (Jillian Bell), a lonely (and horny) elementary school teacher whose only real joy in life comes from being part of Jess' life. Alice is sure that she's Jess' best friend, until Pippa (Kate McKinnon), a friend from Jess' semester in Australia, arrives for the party.

A night of drinking (which is somewhat awkward because of Alice's jealousy of Pippa) turns into a party at the ladies' borrowed glass house on the beach – and soon gets completely out of hand. The girls order a stripper and pizza. When a guy knocks on their door, the girls whisk him in and he starts dancing for them. The now-uptight Jess gets offended by his dirty talk, so the girls sit him in her chair and, after taking a running start, Alice jumps into the guy's lap. He falls backward, hits his head on the corner of the fireplace ledge – and dies! As the girls argue about what to do next, decide to move the body and then work on various ideas of how to get rid of it, they struggle to hide what has happened from their nosy, swinging neighbors (Demi Moore and Ty Burrell), someone walking their dog and several people who knock on the front door for various reasons. In the meantime, an upsetting interrupted phone call from Jess leads her fiancé (Paul W. Downs) to leave his (humorously lame) bachelor party and take, as one of his friends calls it, a "sad astronaut" road trip down to Miami to try and preserve his engagement.

"Rough Night" is creative, well-put together and, best of all, decadently and darkly diverting. The comparisons to movies like "Bachelor Party" (1984), "Weekend at Bernie's" (1989), "Very Bad Things" (1999), "The Hangover" (2009) and, of course, "Bridesmaids", are inevitable – and not unfair – but this one measures up well in their company. Its plot twists are its own and it's laugh-out-loud-funny, while speaking with a female voice. Director and co-writer, Lucia Aniello (making her first feature film), centers the action on the complicated and relatable relationships among these five women, while showing that they can be just as wild – and funny – as their male counterparts. Johannson herself isn't especially funny, but she plays uptight and (relatively) innocent very well, McKinnon effectively plays a down-under version of her typical loopy movie characters, Bell is as entertaining as ever, as she and Kravitz and Glazer give us a mix of drama and comedy that most of us haven't see from them before. Moore and Burrell are an unexpected treat as a randy and uninhibited couple and Downs is a revelation as the neurotic fiancé – and this film's co-writer! But even with all that, not to be written off as a "chick flick", the comedy ranges from scandalous situations to silly slapstick to salacious sight gags, all supporting a very good story. This movie is enjoyable enough to make anyone's rough night a little less rough. "B+"

Old college friends(Scarlett Johansson, Jillian Bell, Zoe Kravitz, and llano Glazer), decide to spend a good night of fun, and another friend(Kate McKinnon) comes along for the ride. When one of them hires a male stripper, then a fun night soon turns dark when they accidentally kill him. Will they make it out okay?

Nice to Scarlett Johansson do a comedy, she mostly has been in drama or action, but I gotta say she was pretty funny. The other females here also don't disappoint, Bell, Kravitz, Glazer and McKinnon all play off each other quite well. I really brought there friendship, and that they all had a history together. A well done dark comedy, very funny, and raunchy, but not to over the top. I also liked the way the characters where not portrayed in a one dimensional way. If your are looking for a film to see with your friends, then check Rough Night out.

Smart and funny. It would probably get better ratings if it were a male cast and a male perspective. Definitely in the same class as The Hangover.

Not really good at all, Sometimes really stupid. The acting was pretty darn good, but would not watch again or recommend. It was hard watching the whole movie. Movie was just irritating. Scarlet Johansen should choose better scripts. A lady with talent, way above what this movie offers.