To take a leave of their troubles, the pair decide to enjoy a vacation in the sun, but a hurricane strands them in St. Her best friend is Meg ( Kate Upton) a cosmetics saleswoman with a load of North Korean makeup she can’t get rid of. Kate ( Alexandra Daddario) is a sweet-natured junior high English teacher who’s not particularly good at it and after some advice from the principal ( Rob Corddry), has no job. The Layover does not, and while you might be tempted by the opportunities that the story seems to promise, this is one to avoid. Some films handle this well and even manage to be smart about it. It’s meant to be shallow, to stir some controversy and be as juvenile as it can be.
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“Testes before besties” goes one of the taglines in the film’s theatrical trailer, so it’s no surprise that any sense of love that exists between Meg and Kate, who’ve been friends since middle school, goes out the window as soon as Ryan’s obliques land in their sightlines.The Layover is a 2017 comedy about two women recently out of jobs who take a trip to have some fun, finding a romance a competition along the way.Ī movie like The Layover is pretty much critic-proof, a film mired in its simple premise and yet committed to it, knowing its audience isn’t coming in with anything more on their minds than to see what’s on the menu, having been properly salivated by the teasing promos. But a film like this isn’t really concerned with respecting women in the first place, which at least its makers are honest about. The Layover is content to reduce women to predatory, conniving shrews who’re more concerned with how strangers view them than they are with treating their best friends with a bare minimum of respect.
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Worst of all, though, is that the film doesn’t even have the dignity to explore the mending of Meg and Kate’s friendship without framing the act in direct relation to the man over whom they were fighting. What follows is a mean-spirited depiction of two best friends willing to destroy decades of friendship over a man they hardly know, a scenario made all the more excruciating with a third-act twist that meekly tries to shift the blame for the rift in their relationship onto Ryan, who’s revealed to have had his own bad intentions all along.
This petty game escalates when Kate and Meg take an impromptu trip to Florida and the hunky Ryan (Matt Barr) sits in the middle seat between them on their flight, which leads to Meg and Kate flirting with him relentlessly, peacocking to increasingly embarrassing degrees.
When Meg takes a passive-aggressive jab at Kate, suggesting that she’s too reserved to get a man in the heat of competition, a tiresome game of one-upsmanship is kicked into motion where the women flaunt their sexuality in every way imaginable to prove that they’re more desirable than the other. Kate (Alexandra Daddario) and Meg (Kate Upton) are besties who, after suffering meltdowns, briefly console one another before settling down to a night of wine and The Bachelor. Macy’s The Layover was clearly conceived and written by men who have no interest in approaching female friendships with any degree of complexity, curiosity, or respect.
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