Full of life and pep and some interesting things, positive female stuff, nude men. But really lacks focus. It's about three girls who live together and that's it and it's all very light when it really needs some hard edged social stuff. Rothman movies work best when they mix tones, IMHO.
The girls lack connection. Glue. They needed to have done the same job or be sisters or old college friends or from the same town. It's just two flat mates and a third girl joins them and the third girl leaves. Good natured. Fun. Silly. Just a bit slap dash.
There's no camraderie. One girl steals the other one's guy straight away. Yes the girl rescues her from the beach and later the girls say "we've got your back" to Honey when she meets a mystery guy. But we don't see it. There's no uniting for the cause like the abortion sequence.
I like the gangster and strip club manager subplot. But it was undeveloped. So was the artist and the fence.
Also Honey the blonde girl was struggling to get work... but she's a maths genius. Wouldn't she get something?
At its heart the film should be Honey the blonde being wacky, the artist being sexy/socially conscious, and the stripper being gangster-escapey. There's no social relevance here.
It's still got interesting things but it lacks focus and I'm not sure Rothman's heart was in it.
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