Dir: Ben Falcone (15, 99 mins)
Another vehicle unworthy of the comic chops of Melissa McCarthy, this is her second collaboration with husband Ben Falcone and like Tammy before it, is a weak, scattershot comedy redeemed only by McCarthy and some violent slapstick. Another SNL sketch character stretched to beyond breaking point, McCarthy plays an appalling money grabbing CEO, Michelle Darnell, the 47th wealthiest woman in America. Following accusations of insider trading however she find herself penniless and homeless and falls upon the generosity of former assistant Kirsten Bell. Soon McCarthy is transforming a Girl Scout troupe into a ruthless gang of Brownie sellers and turning Bell into a businesswoman. There’s foul mouthed gutter speak amidst the well to do, knockabout physical comedy and some appalling manipulative schmaltz. McCarthy squeezes every laugh she can out of the character but the script and plot don’t offer that much comedy gold, improvised or otherwise. The Boss ain’t so boss. Opens June 10