Movie Review: ‘Chick Fight’

Review by Lisa Payne

Anna (Malin Akerman) is having a run of bad luck. Her best friend, Charlene (Dulcé Sloan) knows just the cure. I’m gonna take her to a female fight club where I know she’s going to hate it, find out the real meaning of said club, is touched and wants to fight for it (no pun intended or maybe it was).

And then for plot, let’s throw in a fight challenge (Bella Thorne), a father who has found his sexual freedom (Kevin Nash), his partner (Alec Mapa), Anna’s love interest (Kevin Connolly), alcoholic trainer (Alec Baldwin), his undocumented love interest (Mariana Vicente) and the club manager, Bear (Fortune Feimster) who is a misfit.

With all this, hilarity should ensue. To be fair, there were some very funny moments. Not enough though.

Traditional rom com masquerading as a female empowerment movie.

Plucky heroine, who doesn’t seem to know how to care for herself ✅

Sassy black best friend ✅

Love interest doctor ✅

One parent died from a disease ✅

Parent left behind finds self ✅

Antagonist ✅

Overcoming “adversity”✅

Happy ending ✅

Omg I like him to sex in an improbable place in one fell swoop ✅

Unrealistic outcome to tension ✅

Zero to hero ✅