The Boss seriously opens with Michelle, the filthy rich businesswoman at the famous United Center in Chicago delivering a seminar on getting rich, complete with an over-the-top theatrical dance and musical number with rappers performing the irritating “All I Do Is Win” song. Instead, Falcone and McCarthy always seem complacent with settling for lowbrow, bottom of the barrel humor that isn’t grounded in reality.

Putting it bluntly, these two seem to be incapable of creating a movie with value, which is somewhat shocking considering McCarthy is essentially the muse of director Paul Feig (yes, I know Ghostbusters looks terrible, but that doesn’t discount the fact that Bridesmaids, Spy, and The Heat all have some value and redeemable qualities), who surely must have taught her SOMETHING about writing characters that walk a fine line between being aggressively annoying and charming within their crass behavior. The Boss however, is the next lazily constructed feature from her and her husband Ben Falcone (2014’s dreadful Tammy), based on another character from McCarthy’s past comedy sketches). Melissa McCarthy is a talented comedian and actress, provided she is given direction by actual competent filmmakers. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America’s latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Bell, Ella Anderson, Peter Dinklage, Tyler Labine, Cecily Strong, Kristen Schaal, Ben Falcone, and Kathy Bates.Ī titan of industry is sent to prison after she’s caught for insider trading.

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