Misadventures and mayhem, but no surprises

EVERYONE'S been wanting to crash the girls-gone-wild party since Bridesmaids netted US$288 million at the global box office in 2011 besides two Academy Award nominations.

There were the over-worked, under-appreciated mothers of Bad Moms last year. Snatched recently had its own middle-aged mum and lovelorn daughter on a madcap jungle adventure. Girls Trip is also still in cinemas.

And on their spiked heels arrives Rough Night with its bride-to-be and college pals, reuniting a decade later for a bachelorette weekend in Miami: the night of debauchery culminates in a dead male stripper, the blood from a hole in his head spilling across the polished marble floor of the girls' rented beach house.