Spa Weekend Squanders 4 Comic Leads in 97-Minute R-Rated Farce
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Updated · The New York Times · Aug 21
Spa Weekend Squanders 4 Comic Leads in 97-Minute R-Rated Farce
2 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Aug 21
Summary
Leslie Mann, Anna Faris, Michelle Buteau and Isla Fisher anchor a women-on-a-getaway comedy that the review says rarely matches their comic skill.
Jon Lucas and Scott Moore send the quartet to the Solaris Eden resort, where Jane, Sophie and Coco try to exclude the chaotic Mel before she crashes their wellness retreat.
A few lines land, including Mann joking that her last massage was around her last mammogram, but the script is faulted for making the women sound like "sexually overexcited teenage boys."
Rated R and running 1 hour 37 minutes, the film arrives in theaters as another review earlier Friday also called it a critical misfire.