MOVIE REVIEW
28 TYBEE BEACHCOMBER | MARCH 2020
By Alaina Loughridge
HUSTLERS
Holy J. Lo! If you had any complaints whatsoever about the Super Bowl Half Time Show, do not watch this movie! In fact, if you have any problem whatsoever
with strippers, perhaps its best if you give this movie a pass.
Based on the real-life story of a New York stripper, Samantha Barbash, who starts a gang of other strippers to rip men off during the economy crash in 2008,
these girls take it to a whole new level. Hey, everybody has got to make a living and strippers are people too.
Jennifer Lopez plays Ramona Vega (Samantha Barbash), who is the lead dancer at a high-end strip club. When the money is flowing, life is good and when
Ramona hooks up with Destiny (Constance Wu), a new stripper in town, the new bffs play the game until the money is gone and then have to create a new
way to maintain the life style in which they have become accustomed. Drugging men with a date rape drug and taking their credit cards is a brilliant idea …
until it’s not.
While not being a huge fan of J. Lo, she really is phenomenal in Hustlers and for being 50 years old, that girl has got a better body than most women half her
age, and for that, I give this movie 3 bottles of Diva Vodka for the paltry sum of $1 million per bottle. There are also some really great cameos from Cardi B. and
Lizzo (both who may have missed their calling in real life), and for that ‘what in hell am I watching?’ and other awkward moments, 1 bottle of Stoli, and finally
one bottle of Barton’s because Jennifer Lopez was robbed at the Oscar’s!