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Spa Weekend review – female answer to The Hangover spreads the slush with the massage oil
Despite stars Leslie Mann, Anna Faris and Isla Fisher and the writers behind The Hangover, this tale of friends at a luxury hotel is a dud
Jon Lucas and Scott Moore are the screenwriters who struck gold nearly 20 years ago with The Hangover, a brilliant stag-weekend nightmare comedy about what happens in Vegas, which sadly spawned a terrible (though lucrative) franchise. Now, as writers and directors, they have tried turning it around and making a movie about how middle-aged women behave on a longed-for spa weekend at a luxury-porn hotel. The result is a comedy without gags, a comedy which, for all the strenuous high-jinks, is afraid to be flippant or mean or, indeed, funny in any way.
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Like a reiki session at a fancy spa, this movie made me feel nothing
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Sometimes for financial reasons or big fat tax breaks or even global pandemics, Australia becomes a very attractive filming location for international productions and that's why the Gold Coast's Sheraton Grand Mirage Resort stands in as a snooty deluxe spa on the beaches outside Los Angeles in this gals-gone-wild comedy.
The filmmakers and the film's marketing team obviously want to attract the same audience, and audience numbers, of the 2017 comedy Girls Trip – it feels like the film is singing from the same hymn book, and in fact I mistakenly called it Girls Trip when I bought my ticket and the box office kid did not correct me.
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