Combining self-care, anarchic shenanigans and solidarity, Spa Weekend focuses on Mann’s single mum and lawyer, who reluctantly decides to celebrate her birthday by taking a lavish spa break with childhood besties Sophie and Coco (Anna Faris and Michelle Buteau), despite being too busy to function.
Enter the fourth musketeer, Mel (Isla Fisher). Described ominously as a “maniac”, she’s made money from an online business that is “totally not a pyramid scheme”. The others had avoided inviting her along due to her history as a human wrecking ball, before Sophie felt bad and caved.
Grown-ups behaving badly is tried and tested territory for Lucas and Moore (who wrote The Hangover and wrote and directed Bad Moms and A Bad Moms Christmas) and the self-care business is ripe for a ribbing, with its uneasy mix of spirituality and snobbery, while there’s something mildly exhilarating about these women running amok amidst the carefully cultivated and exorbitantly priced serenity.
However, it feels like a missed opportunity, with little in the way of sharp satire (The White Lotus, for example, does it a whole lot better), and the film wants to have its cake and eat it by simultaneously indulging in obscene amounts of relaxation/wealth porn, as the women swoon over their exclusive surroundings.
View Green Video on the source websiteThere are a handful of guilty laughs, while comic set pieces involving strippers, fist-fights and the theft of a golf cart keep things ticking along, although they pale in comparison to equivalent moments in the likes of Bridesmaids and Girls’ Trip.
Adding insult to injury, with their loose, easy laughs and visible cast chemistry, the outtakes that accompany the end credits give a sense of the film that might have been. As fun as this cinematic getaway might seem, it’s one trip you shouldn’t bother taking.
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