'Rough Night' Is Shamelessly Derivative — And Shamelessly Funny
This raunch-fest comedy about a wild (and lethal) bachelorette party stumbles out of the gate, but once Kate McKinnon's Aussie-for-no-particular-reason character shows up, so do the laughs.
Kate McKinnon plays an Australian in , a shrewd gender-reversal of sloppy-drunk bro comedies like , , and . There's no particular reason for her to play an Australian, beyond a thin running joke about cultural insensitivity of failing to distinguish between Aussies and Kiwis. And yet it's funny. McKinnon merrily swishes her dialogue around the accent and makes her character's jet lag and fish-out-of-water misunderstanding to keep her
