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If you thought the first two "Hang Over" movies were funny and wondered what a female version of this story might be like then watch "Walk of Shame."
Elizabeth Banks displays her potential for star power as she is the main character who really carries this movie. Like the movie, "Hang Over" and it's sequel, "Walk of Shame" takes on a similar premise when Meghan Miles (Banks) the local news anchor goes out partying to forget her sorrow over just missing a national anchor spot to another female reporter. Miles' two best girlfriends Rose (Gillian Jacobs) and Denise (Sarah Wright) talk her into wearing Denise's 'hottie" Marc Jacobs' body hugging yellow dress to get her into the party girl vibe.
They end up at a club where Meghan starts downing shots to help herself forget that she just missed her dream job by one other female reporter. She gets a little too much of the booze and party atmosphere and goes outside for a breather getting herself locked out and stranded up on a small balcony in the back of the club. The handsome bartender, Gordon (James Marsden) who served them drinks spots her as he's leaving the bar and helps her down from her gilded cage whereupon he determines that she is far too tipsy to drive and suggests she get a cab home but Meghan refuses this suggestion. She reluctantly allows Gordon to drive her home but they end up at his place where they resume the party and one thing leads to another with Meghan waking up several hours later in Gordon's bed and severely hung over.
She's too embarrassed to wake Gordon and searches for her phone and keys but only can find the car keys. Gordon's bad tempered cat virtually chases Meghan out the door and she proceeds to try and find her car that Gordon parked somewhere earlier that night. She realizes that her car has been towed and, that she doesn't even know Gordon's name let alone what loft apartment he's in. But she does realize that she's essentially lost in one of the seedier areas of L.A. in the middle of the night without a phone or money and keys to a car that's not accessible.
Bank's starts walking and sees a parked cab driver and approaches him to try and negotiate a ride to get her towed car where she can also get her money and pay the driver. The cab driver is not going for it since he's off for the night but after some haggling Meghan agrees to give the guy two lap dances in exchange for a ride to the tow place. The driver is not so good with his English and mistakenly takes Meghan to a strip club with a similar name whereupon he expects his "payment" and Meghan flees on foot.
This is where the fun and the laughs really get rolling as Meghan the somewhat prim and proper "Live at Five" News Woman by day starts walking this tough side of town in search of her towed car in the tight fitting yellow Marc Jacobs dress (that looked great at the club but now somehow looks like a streetwalker's outfit given the place and time).
Each time she encounters a new character on-the-street she is hopeful they will help her only to find herself deeper in the stuff. There are so many funny scenes and characters that it's hard to say which is funnier but one of the best has to be when she takes up with a corner drug dealer named Scrilla (Lawrence Gilliard Jr.) and runs after him as two cops chase after him - with them both ending up in a crack warehouse. There Scrilla reads Meghan the riot act for following him and thinks she's a "crack ho" but one of his two friends, Pookie (hilariously played by Alphonso McAuley) recognizes Meghan as that "Live at Five Bitch." The dialogue here is just plain funny but Pookie clearly steals the show. Scrilla asks how Pookie has come to watch the 5:00 News to know who this Anchor woman is, to which Pookie replies, "I get up at 5 o'clock!" (as in P.M.). An opposing drug gang breaks in and starts shooting at Meghan and her thee cohorts and she's off and running again into one crazy funny situation after another - all in an effort to find her impounded car (and money) and get back to the station in time for her 5:00 News gig.
Walk of Shame has the pluck and tempo of "Forty-Year Old Virgin, Bridesmaids, and Hang Over," and somehow give us one zany scene after another never losing the pace or the laughs. Some of the best performances are by the actors in each of these scenes besides McAuley and Gilliard Jr., there's Kevin Nealon - yes, of the SNL alumni as "Chopper Steve," a slightly manic traffic helicopter pilot who the news station cannot contain, Ken Davitian as the cab driver, comedien, Niecy Nash, as a sassy bus driver who's having none of Meghan's antics. Also, P.J. Byrne, as an orthodox Jew who is sorely tempted by Meghan in her tight yellow dress, and a young Jacob Timothy Manown, playing an obnoxious adolescent who's willing to "bargain" with Meghan for the use of his bicycle.
Meghan's two girl pals (Jacobs and Wright) provide a great deal of amusement as they find Gordon and give him "the test," to determine if he's a guy who's trustworthy - which in and of itself is high on the laughter scale (for both women and men), and even the two cops who pursue Meghan throughout most of the movie (also mistaking her for a streetwalker) add to the laughs and mayhem. The girlfriends grudgingly agree to work with Gordon in finding and rescuing Meghan and those scenes live up to some good laughs too.
There are so few really entertaining comedies these days and this movie is a rare gem like those I mentioned before. This could very well be the movie that puts Banks up into the "A list" if others find it as funny and I did. My husband (who typically steers far away from "chick flicks"), also thought this to be a comedy worth watching and also thought it had the same pluck as "Hang Over" and "Forty Year Old VIrgin." But then, he thought Bridesmaids was hilarious as well and some guys I've talked to didn't care as much for that. I personally thought Bridesmaids was one of the best female comedy ensembles in a movie and I can say I found Walk of Shame living up to comparable laugh standards (and I rarely give a movie a five star rating).
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