Chick Fight is akin to the rom-com female-led version of 1999’s Fight Club but with moms. It seems the X Generation and Xennials are making a comeback. When it comes to roles in films normally reserved for the younger versions of us, 2020 has seen Cobra Kai become a hit. Cobra Kai is a series starring older versions of the leads from the original Karate Kid movie and it’s wonderfully engaging. Another example is The Paper Tigers a film about aged Karate prodigies who reemerge from their day jobs, are older, and less nimble to fight again.
While the writing and depth between the Chick Fight movie and the other films are mountains apart, there’s no denying some similarities. Turning unfulfilled lives into powerful resourceful ones by simply learning how to fight are the kinds of good-spirited tales people like.
The storyline follows Anna who is not having the time of her life. Professionally her dreams of owning a successful cafe are sadly unrealized. Her mother has passed and her life lacks meaning. Anna learns her mother established an underground fight club and similarly to the Karate Kid playbook, leans into self-empowerment by learning to rumble. The dialogue is filled with inspirational quotes about belonging and peppered with overtly sexual jokes.
It’s a Fight Club Movie for Ladies
According to some press notes, Malin Akerman’s Anna had a hand in producing the movie. She wanted to bring some raunch to a story about a fight club dominated by a cast of women. One thing’s certain in that respect, there is a reverse example to the usual male-centric films that do the same thing. The banter teeters between slightly amusing and cringing, almost the entire way. I laughed hearing Chuck say to his boyfriend;
“Don’t ever pass out inside of me again”
Quote from Chuck played by Alec Mapa in Chick Fight 2020
I have to admit, the raunch takes a front seat in this movie. Chuck says this line to his boyfriend Ed as he sits in the hospital after a sexually related heart attack. Chuck (Alec Mapa) and Ed (Kevin Nash) were my favorite characters. Due mostly because they were cast with more depth and consistency than anyone else in the film. Granted the couple didn’t fit into the world created for them but they were enjoyable nonetheless. To explain, Ed is Anna’s father and comes out as homosexual in the middle of her existential crisis.
That’s fine on the surface, but as his wife of many years recently passed from Cancer, one can only wonder about their relationship for a moment. I ponder how happy this woman’s final years were with him. Especially seeing as his deceased wife was a therapist and ran an underground fight club. A fight club was built to help empower women to extract their inside rage and place it on the outside.
Chick Fight Cast
Casting is this film’s drawcard. There are plenty of familiar faces within the sea of repetitive money shots of slow-motion punches with blood spraying out of mouths. Bella Thorne, Alec Baldwin, and, Kevin Connolly all have their moments in the sun. Conolly’s Dr. Roy drew the short straw on narrative though. Poor Dr. Roy, the fight club’s doctor is left to explain to his love interest Anna how his dalliance with Olivia was left less than satisfying. He goes on to mention that he “couldn’t get it up because he was thinking about Anna.”
The joke falls flat at the massive impossibility that a man would have erectile dysfunction simply because he had a mild interest in someone he had just met.
Overall, Chick Fight certainly has a long way to go to be considered a solid, well-honed film. For the most part, a pleasant time-passer that serves to shock you into laughter while trying to throw down empowering statements. There are no surprises written into the screenplay either, so expect the predictable ending you know is coming.
Chick Fight movie is rated
2 inheritance is much easier than using your head out of 5
For movies similar to Chick Fight add The Art of Self Defense or xxx to your watchlist.
Where Can I watch Chick Fight Movie?
The comedy movie is available to watch now on digital and on-demand from November 13th, 2020.
Chick Fight Trailer
- The Chick Fight movie cast includes Malin Akerman, Bella Thorne, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Connolly, Dulcé Sloan, Dominique Jackson, Kevin Nash, Fortune Feimster, and Alec Mapa.
- Directed by Paul Leyden
- Written by Joseph Downey
- Produced by Malin Akerman, Frances Lausell, Idiot Savant Pictures’ Anne Clements, Cranium Entertainment’s Ash Christian, and Yale Productions’ Jordan Yale Levine, Michael J. Rothstein, and Jordan Beckerman.
- Distribution by Quiver Distribution.
- Mother of Movies obtained the movie as a screener for a review.
