Film Review: THE WRONG GIRLS (2026): A Creative Comedy Starring Funny Ladies Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat

The Wrong Girls Review

The Wrong Girls (2026) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Dylan Meyer and starring Kristen Stewart, Alia Shawkat, Cate Blanchett, LaKeith Stanfield, Seth Rogen, Chris Estrada, Tony Hale, Morgan Krantz, Kate McKinnon, Zack Fox, Geena Davis, Thomas La Barbera Christensen, Thor Knai, Thomas Nicholson, Taj Cross and Kumail Nanjiani.

Goofy comedies don’t get much wilder than the new film from filmmaker Dylan Meyer, The Wrong Girls. In the movie, two struggling young women who are best friends, Frankie (Kristen Stewart) and Molly (Alia Shawkat), stumble into a very intriguing situation in which they come into contact with a briefcase with contents that could just either get them killed or make them wealthy, whichever comes first. Stewart and Shawkat are doing their best to make this film the Romy and Michele... of stoner movies. While that 1997 movie didn’t have much action, The Wrong Girls offers many scenes of close escapes and fun confrontations that raise the film a notch above your typical female buddy movie.

This new movie has all the standard elements of a goofy girl buddy comedy before its creativity is unleashed about a quarter of the way through when Frankie is confronted by someone who gives her a briefcase, believing she is actually someone else as the person she is mistaken for looks exactly like Frankie except that she wears glasses. The Wrong Girls is a film which is beyond zany and as each situation unfolds, things get more bizarrely humorous than in the scene that precedes it. It rests on the comic timing of Stewart and Shawkat who gets just the right amount of brownie points for playing their characters with zest.

The Wrong Girls showcases two cats that are voiced by Seth Rogen and Kumail Nanjiani. These felines have moderately clever lines and the funny men playing the cats revel in humorous one-liners that occasionally hit the mark of near-greatness. This film also co-stars LaKeith Stanfield as “Not Metal Head Dave.” Stanfield has a good time as well and he plays up his role in the action as a sort of helper for the two lead characters to escape the villains that the movie pits against them.

It is Kate McKinnon, though, as Dr. Olsen who has the best time on-screen. Olsen reveals the secrets about the secret telepathic powers that Frankie and Molly start developing as the storyline moves forward. McKinnon makes the most of her screen time and each line she delivers works wonderfully thanks to the sharp and witty humor that is so prevalent in the screenplay.

A hilarious scene has Molly using mind powers to pick a blunt up off the street and drag it back into the car she flung it from. Scenes like these here are great ideas, but there is too much cleverness sprinkled into the plot for the movie’s own good. The men in suits pursuing Frankie and Molly have no distinct personalities either until they start dancing and moving and grooving, thanks to the mind powers that our characters come to possess.

Stewart and Shawkat have a ball on-screen together in, perhaps, their funniest roles to date. Stewart is mostly known for dramas so she shows quite a bit of comic timing and range that she doesn’t usually work with in her major film roles. Shawkat and McKinnon get the most time to shine and although Stewart is, technically, the lead, Shawkat more than shines beside her while grabbing stand-out scenes right from underneath Stewart.

The Wrong Girls works best when it’s being totally off the wall. Some of the more ordinary moments here don’t work as well as the crazy, wild ones do. Geena Davis makes a quick cameo towards the film’s end as a character who offers jobs to our lead characters and Davis is always welcome to see on the big screen, given her remarkable past performances, lead and supporting, respectively.

Like Romy and Michele, Frankie and Molly have big dreams. They wanted to open a clothing store in the Romy and Michele movie whereas our characters in The Wrong Girls want to help re-open a fading buffet spot and take it up a notch as a business. This all makes for intriguing and funny elements that compose the new picture and make for some hysterical scenes throughout the picture.

It’s hard not to see McKinnon as the most valuable player here in one of the best turns that McKinnon has done in recent years. Whenever Dr. Olsen has something to say, it’s on-point or funny and is just what the doctor ordered for a stoner comedy such as this one.

There can be too much comic action in the film than what was genuinely needed. Still, it’s hard not to appreciate the quick moving action and humor that prevails in The Wrong Girls. Filmmaker Dylan Meyer is now officially on the map and it’s easy to expect some great upcoming things from the writer/director’s future projects. The Wrong Girls is, quite simply, wild and crazy late summer fun.

Rating: 7/10

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