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Like a Boss
Female empowerment in the movies takes a severe beating in 2020's Like a Boss, a silly, predictable and unfunny comedy that was completely humorless and barely motivated this reviewer to crack a smile, let alone laugh out loud.
Mia (Tiffany Haddish) and Mel (Rose Byrne) have been BFF's since they were teenagers and now run their own cosmetics company, which is on the verge of going under because of Mia's outspoken bossiness and need to party all the time, while Mel struggles with the bottom line. They are thrown a lifeline when a wealthy cosmetics empress named Claire Luna offers to bail them out for partial ownership of their company, trying to destroy Mia and Mel's friendship in the process.
The path of this story is about as predictable as they come. We have the alleged best friends who actually have little or nothing in common and have completely different ideals and work morals temporarily torn apart by an outside force, who get wise to the force and get revenge. It's never really made clear why this Claire Luna woman wants to buy into this company on the verge of bankruptcy in the first place or why after Mia and Mel keep screwing up, she keeps giving the girls second chances.
The so-called comedy moves at a snail's pace and has one silly scene after another. We know we're in trouble when our heroines get stoned at a baby shower and jump into a swimming pool. It only gets worse during a girls' luncheon where Haddish eats a hot pepper,
prompting a lot of belching and spitting food back onto her plate. Haddish's near tumble from a very high balcony is almost as embarrassing as the conclusion of the film which makes no sense at all.
Tiffany Haddish is allegedly a very funny woman who is getting a serious fan base but she has failed to make me laugh with any kind of consistency and this film was no exception and I know I've mentioned in other reviews how unfunny I think Rose Byrne is. I never believe these two as BFF's and that might be at the crux of what's really wrong with this movie. Even the charismatic Salma Hayek, fitted in an atrocious red wig, fails to register as the bitchy Claire Luna. Basically, another 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
Female empowerment in the movies takes a severe beating in 2020's Like a Boss, a silly, predictable and unfunny comedy that was completely humorless and barely motivated this reviewer to crack a smile, let alone laugh out loud.
Mia (Tiffany Haddish) and Mel (Rose Byrne) have been BFF's since they were teenagers and now run their own cosmetics company, which is on the verge of going under because of Mia's outspoken bossiness and need to party all the time, while Mel struggles with the bottom line. They are thrown a lifeline when a wealthy cosmetics empress named Claire Luna offers to bail them out for partial ownership of their company, trying to destroy Mia and Mel's friendship in the process.
The path of this story is about as predictable as they come. We have the alleged best friends who actually have little or nothing in common and have completely different ideals and work morals temporarily torn apart by an outside force, who get wise to the force and get revenge. It's never really made clear why this Claire Luna woman wants to buy into this company on the verge of bankruptcy in the first place or why after Mia and Mel keep screwing up, she keeps giving the girls second chances.
The so-called comedy moves at a snail's pace and has one silly scene after another. We know we're in trouble when our heroines get stoned at a baby shower and jump into a swimming pool. It only gets worse during a girls' luncheon where Haddish eats a hot pepper,
prompting a lot of belching and spitting food back onto her plate. Haddish's near tumble from a very high balcony is almost as embarrassing as the conclusion of the film which makes no sense at all.
Tiffany Haddish is allegedly a very funny woman who is getting a serious fan base but she has failed to make me laugh with any kind of consistency and this film was no exception and I know I've mentioned in other reviews how unfunny I think Rose Byrne is. I never believe these two as BFF's and that might be at the crux of what's really wrong with this movie. Even the charismatic Salma Hayek, fitted in an atrocious red wig, fails to register as the bitchy Claire Luna. Basically, another 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back.