#Barb and star go to vista del mar movie#

As a decade’s worth of joy de vivre seeps out of them on their walk home, they bump into their friend Mickey, looking gloriously tanned and bouncy and singing the praises of Florida’s Vista Del Mar resort. Their conversations are so quickfire one is always talking just before the first has finished, like an over-edited podcast.īut then they’re told the store is closing. There’s even a touch of midlife Thelma and Louise about them, as they risk death together to do what is right, their friendship more important even than survival.Īnnie Mumolo is Barb and Kristen Wiig is Star (they also co-wrote the screenplay), two women who sleep in twin beds and work at the same furniture store, where they spend most of the time chatting on the sofa they should be selling. Imagine Shirley Valentine crossed with Austin Powers with songs channelling the same mix of earnestness and sex obsession as last year’s Eurovision Song Contest, and that’s Barb And Star.

And to be fair Barb and Star’s versions (elasticated, retina-burning, probably nylon) aren’t the ones most stylish 40-somethings – us, basically – would wear.

#Barb and star go to vista del mar movie#

The one thing I didn’t like about this movie was its mockery towards culottes, though they do later have a key role in this story.