Spa Weekend Squanders 4-Actor Ensemble in 97-Minute Lukewarm Comedy

2 articles · Updated · Hollywood Reporter · Aug 23

Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, Michelle Buteau and Anna Faris get little help from a review that calls the R-rated Aug. 21 release a bland, underpowered girls-trip comedy.
Jon Lucas and Scott Moore’s 97-minute film centers on three overworked friends at a wellness retreat, then leans on Fisher’s chaotic late-arriving Mel to trigger fights, a cocaine-fueled party and a golf-cart chase.
Those set pieces never turn as sharp, raunchy or destructive as promised, and the script is faulted for treating its women as thin types rather than fully drawn characters with believable stakes.
The review says the cast occasionally lands laughs or warmth on sheer talent, but the film adds nothing fresh to the Bad Moms-style formula and offers stressed mothers little beyond “take a vacation.”