Rough Night: Worst comedy I've seen in a while

Lately I've been getting extremely bored with what Netflix has on offer so I have been watching a ton of things that aren't really things I would be interested in. A girl-power comedy is exactly the opposite of what I would normally even attempt to watch but because this one had Scarlett Johansson in a comedy role, which is something she doesn't normally do, I decided to give it a shot anyway. I nearly turned it off several times and now that it is over I wish I had turned it off.

There will be spoilers in this because I don't think you should watch it

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The film ticks all the boxes on the Netflix social justice schedule of requirements including two minority friends, a fat friend that nobody picks on for being fat, and all the bad people in the film are white men who are idiots. I'm not really upset about that though because Netflix has normalized this to the point where it isn't even unusual - what does upset me is that in the 90 minutes that this film is on, very little of it is even remotely funny.

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The story is that a group of old college friends all get together in Miami for a bachelorette party and things quickly get out of control including doing illegal drugs and later accidentally killing the stripper that comes to the house for their party. The rest of the film involves a sort of attempt at doing a Weekend at Bernie's type thing that just isn't funny so much as it is completely impractical and dumb.

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Here's the funny thing though: Since it was an all woman cast and had a woman director and producer, the Hollywood press wouldn't call this film out for being the horrible film that it is. Some critics even attempted to use this film as an example as to "why Hollywood needs more female filmmakers."

If anyone were to publicly state that this movie sucks, which it does, they would only be saying that because they are a misogynist. That's exactly what they did when everyone hated the Ghostbusters remake even though the reality was that it was a terrible movie just like this one.

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Another strange choice that they made was casting Kate McKinnon as their Australian friend. From my perspective the accent sounds authentic but honestly, were there not any actual Australians available for this role?

Should I watch it?

It should be obvious from what I have written thus far that this is not a good film. It made a little bit of money but perhaps just broke even after advertising costs are factored in. Had it not been for the international box office numbers it would have lost a TON of cash. This movie is one of the least funny "comedies" I have seen in a while and there is absolutely nothing unique about it. I wish I had watched literally anything else instead of this but I suffered through it so you don't have to!