Rough Night

Rough Night is shiny, manic, and spiraling to nowhere.

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Compared to the energy- and laugh-free “comedy” of the most recent offering in the genre this summer, Baywatch, there’s a momentum to Rough Night that is pleasing enough, but the bar should be set higher, and this cliché-filled outing never quite clears it.

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Rough Night is a seriously funny movie led by some seriously funny ladies, but even more impressive is a mainstream comedy that relies not on cheap shocks like many who have come before.

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Hilarious gags and situations rescue this sloppy comedy from its total lack of structure.

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This, reportedly, is the first R-rated studio comedy directed by a woman in years. As such there's a completely stupid degree of pressure on Aniello to deliver.

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Rough Night exposes the threadbare downside of the women-cutting-loose genre.

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Scarlett Johansson leads an adept comic cast in a debauched take on Weekend at Bernie’s that has laughs but isn’t quite the slam-dunk it should have been.

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Some decent laughs and performances, but it doesn't offer much of anything new.

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A crack female cast try to breathe comic life into this confused comedy about a bachelorette party gone off the rails.

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Dying is easy, comedy is hard, as the saying goes. A comedy in which someone dies—specifically, a male stripper at a bachelorette party that goes horribly wrong—is an especially tricky feat that “Rough Night” never quite pulls off, despite a few glimmers of greatness and a game cast.

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For all the female bona fides of “Rough Night” — It’s a bachelorette version of “The Hangover”! It’s the first R-rated, woman-directed comedy in years! — here’s the rub: The funniest thing about it is the men.

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Peeking out among the film’s bawdy comic hijinks, which include everything from Blair’s hot-and-heavy sexual encounter with a swinger couple (Demi Moore and Ty Burrell) to Jess’s fiancé Peter’s (Downs) diaper-wearing, Red Bull-fueled cross-country dash to Florida from D.C., are bits of harsh truth about the inevitable decay of friendships over time.

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The movie is glazed in flop sweat, moist with the producers’ fear that if the wildness lets up for a heartbeat, we’ll be bored.

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Scarlett Johansson plays a bride-to-be on a Miami bachelorette weekend that goes haywire in this raunchy comedy about female friendship and corpse disposal, which also stars Kate McKinnon.

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No matter whether the cast is male, female, or somewhere in between, the absence of a well-constructed story, particularly when the humor goes south (literally), will doom any movie to quick obscurity, no matter how many d**k or p***y jokes get told.

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It’s all blithely formulaic and would be more irritating if the performers — who include Zoë Kravitz and Illana Glazer — weren’t generally so appealing.

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