![]() ![]() ![]() This side of her business is never mentioned again, and is just one of dozens of examples of the loose-strings twirling all over the place in the haphazard script written by McCarthy, director Ben Falcone and Steve Mallory. (She’s never heard of a Dorito before.) When we meet her trimly coiffed, turtleneck-wearing exec Michelle Darnell, she boasts to a packed stadium of acolytes of being one of the richest women in the world, and hawks a “program” to help them make money. Unfortunately, he was nowhere to be found while the cameras were rolling on The Boss, an unfunny, chaotic mess of ludicrous plotting and tone-deaf set-pieces that’s as bad as her 2013 abomination Identity Thief.Īs in that earlier film (which, it must be said, was a tremendous financial success, just in case you needed another reason to weep for the world) McCarthy is a near-sociopath loner that has a particular skillset, but is otherwise completely out of touch with the real world. Feig directed her to hilarious effect in Bridesmaids, The Heat and Spy and will hopefully do so again later this year in Ghostbusters. ![]() Like cooking with rosemary or incorporating tubas into a piece of music, casting the abundantly talented McCarthy in a leading film role takes a very delicate hand. T he evidence is more than circumstantial: Paul Feig is the Melissa McCarthy-whisperer. ![]()
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