Academy Award®-nominated star Melissa McCarthy
(Bridesmaids, The Heat, Tammy) headlines The Boss as a titan of industry who is
sent to prison after she’s caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready
to rebrand herself as America’s
latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and
forget.McCarthy is joined in The Boss by an all-star cast led by Kristen Bell,
Peter Dinklage and Kathy Bates. Directed by Ben Falcone (Tammy), the comedy is
based on an original character created by McCarthy and written by McCarthy and
Falcone alongside their Groundlings collaborator, Steve Mallory. The film is
produced by McCarthy and Falcone through their On the Day productions and Will
Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy through their Gary Sanchez Productions.
Director: Ben Falcone
Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Bell, Peter Dinklage,
Kristen Schaal, Kathy Bates.
Release Date: Apr
08, 2016
Rated R for Sexual content, language and brief drug use.
Runtime: 1 hr. 29 min.
Genres: Comedy
Review:
The Boss is a comedy that’s sporadically funny and
consistently uneven through out. It’s
not nearly as bad as Tammy, also directed by McCarthy’s husband Ben Falcone,
but it does feel like a missed opportunity.
The supporting cast is made up of an excellent collection of comedic
actors like Tyler Labine, Cecily Strong and Kristen Schaal but proceeds to give
them nothing to do. Kathy Bates passes
through and doesn’t really add much to the film which is a shame because it
does seem like there’s a much funnier movie in there but it just never hit’s
the sweet spot. Melissa McCarthy, to her
credit, is committed as always and she delivers some of the films funniest
lines. Peter Dinklage seems incredibly at
home on the comedic side, I just wished his character was a bit more fleshed
out. Overall it’s a forgettable comedy
that’ll probably end up on a late Saturday afternoon double header with
Identity Crisis.
C
