The Girls Are Great (Movie Thoughts: Someone Great)

Someone-Great-thumb-700x473-208546Thank God for Netflix. They are single-handedly reviving the ‘chick flick’ genre. Yes, I know they tweeted that they dislike that term, but I am going to call ‘Someone Great’ exactly what it is: a chick flick. It’s also a solid romantic break up film, and at the same time a ‘now’ variation of the ‘Sex & The City’ formula. And you know what?  It’s all good.

Gina Rodriguez plays q woman who is moving to San Francisco for a job, and her boyfriend breaks up with her because of that. SO she and her friends want to party one last time, and…well, you can just imagine where the film journeys on. Some sequences work, some don’t but it hardly matters as she and her friends (Brittany Snow and Dewanda Wise) give you a heady trip where they (and probably you) learn more about yourself. The movie is very current, and I wonder if the references would even work six months from now, but Jennifer Kaytin Robinson directs this in so fast a pace that everything blends well in blender speed. You will be intoxicated after.