Movie Review: Walk of Shame

It’s a laboured, archly directed comedy about a Los Angeles TV news presenter named Meghan whose life is turned upside down after a night on the town. She winds up in bed with a total stranger – the barman (James Marsden, who has little to do except grin).

Elizabeth Banks in one of several silly situations strung together in ‘Walk Of Shame’. Picture: Supplied.

Setting out in the morning to retrieve her impounded car, she finds herself without money, credit cards or an ID and negotiates an unsteady path through some of the city’s worst neighbourhoods. Her misadventures echo After Dark, which was set in New York, followed a similar theme, and was a far better production.

During her journey, which also involves inept cops trying to arrest her, the character encounters gangs, hookers, drug peddlers, an orthodox Jew, an angry foreign cab driver, and a homeless woman. It’s not a pleasant night out and the comedy is thinly spread.