Vacation Friends | Film Review

I saw this film on Disney+, and while I'd never heard of it before, I am familiar with a few of the actors. The plot seemed like it had a lot of potential, so I wanted to see how it held up.

While on vacation, Marcus (Lil Rel Howery) and Emily (Yvonne Orji) meet carefree couple Ron (John Cena) and Kyla (Meredith Hagner), and have a wild week of fun and adventure. However, everything changes when, months later, Ron and Kyla show up uninvited to their wedding.

This film is what you expect it to be. It was an interesting watch, but didn't blow me away.

I loved all four of the main characters. Ron and Kyla got a bit over-the-top after a while, but all four were fun to watch. This is partly because the actors are naturally funny, and therefore are able to keep you engaged when the plot starts to lag.

In addition, the four main characters have good chemistry and work well together. In fact, these four characters are what makes the film feel original. When you look past the characters, everything that happens is quite generic.

While the film definitely has its funny moments, the same jokes start to get repeated, and this becomes tedious after a while.

This is the kind of film that you can have on in the background without really paying attention and still understand everything that happens.

Not only was it not as original as it could have been, but its actually very predictable.

Overall, this is a light comedy that starts off funny and interesting, but ultimately becomes predictable and generic. It's not a bad way to spend an hour and forty minutes, but there are definitely better comedies with similar themes out there.

4.5/10