Tag: melissa mccarthy

Murdering Happy You’ll need to excuse the plot of Happytime Murders. That’s just in the way of puppet sex. And puppet drugs. Happytime Murders is a one joke idea …

A Tame Melissa McCarthy Comedy That Puts Her Back In College More a miss than a hit, Life of the Party is a comedy vehicle built explicitly for Melissa …

Argumentative Overcompensating and certainly curious, Paul Fieg resets Ghostbusters’ lore with only a fizzling pop rather than a bang. A few moments work – particularly some of the action …

Bossing Around Brawling girl scouts are the The Boss’ highlight. A straight ninjitsu, fist-flying, roundhouse kicking pre-teen and adult melee on public streets where the loser suffers the agony …

Internet Foolishness Bloated and heavy in senseless visual effects sequences, this remake has few smarts – it’s outright childish and demeaning, sad considering the possibilities it presents. A timid …

Melissa McCarthy and Paul Feig Team Up Again Spy joins the “woman version of…” genre which appears to have sprouted wings solely under writer/director Paul Feig. A woman-led Hangover …

St. Ruin Your Day with Drama Bill Murray is a bit of a louse – in St. Vincent anyway. It’s actually difficult to see Murray, effortlessly funny and cheery …

Tammy has a few decent gags. Shame they're in this movie.

This series hates animals.  Molesting a tiger in the first, getting a monkey addicted to cigarettes in the second, and slaughtering a giraffe in the opening of Hangover III, …

Heat plods along with instances of laughs peppered throughout.

Identity Thief is a movie of aggression, unfriendly and vicious with the expectation that audiences will accept the material as harmless slapstick.