At just 83 minutes including end credits, the new female buddy comedy Like a Boss feels twice as long. It is painful to watch such appealing stars as Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne stuck in this wi…
feels twice as long. It is painful to watch such appealing stars as Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne stuck in this witless enterprise that promises to be about female friendship and empowerment but fails miserably as it falls into a morass of cliches. If ever there was an argument supporting the need for female filmmakers, it is this hapless movie that not only was directed by a man but also written by two men.
Plotwise we quickly learn Mia and Mel are lifelong best friends who went into business together running a cosmetics boutique that sells packages of female beauty products labeled “One Night Stand.” Although they are BFFs, they have wildly different views of the world they are traversing together.
Immediately Claire starts scheming to make them hate each other, but in my case only succeeded in making me hate her and this movie. There is an occasional laugh here and there in the proceedings, and you can really see Haddish in particular trying hard to make this thing come alive, which it rarely does even as she resorts to all sorts of slapstick attempts.
The raunchy humor and non-starter jokes play and sound like they were written by men, and that is part of the problem. Claire even has pitted a rival male team again Mel and Mia, who are trying to sell their product which has the unsubtle and sexist name of “Get Some.” Oy. Role models these people arefor the target audience of young women drawn to theaters this weekend to check it out. Sadly the first comedy of 2020 and the new decade is a bust.
Apart from the leads, Emmy winner Billy Porter and dumb comedy stalwart Jennifer Coolidge are OK in one-note roles as associates of Mia and Mel. Coolidge’s shtick is getting a little tired though, methinks. And some scenes are going to make you wince, particularly a baby shower with a cake that needs to be seen to be believed. On second thought it is better leftProducers are Marc Evans, Peter Principato, Itay Reiss and Joel Zadak. Paramount releases it today.
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