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Directed and written by Terry Gilliam, the film is co-written by Tony [ The list is an annual ranking of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. More Reviews Film Review: Writer-creator Lena Waithe and actor Brian Tyree Henry will present a quarter of a million dollars in filmmaker grants come January as hosts of the annual Independent Spirit Awards nominee brunch. Nominated for five Oscars for costume design and recipient of an honorary Oscar in , [ You will be redirected back to your article in seconds.
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Previous video Next video. Let's be honest, no one in fifty years is going to call Life of the Party a career highpoint. It'll be any wonder people will remember it at all. This feels more like a serious of outlandish vignettes from a TV sitcom as opposed to a fully-fledged theatrical feature.
The day will come when McCarthy makes another drop-dead hit like The Heat or Bridesmaids where she can be funny and have a decent script to back her up. And when that day arrives, I'll be waiting in the wings. Melissa McCarthy is really hit and miss for me.
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This is watchable, but that's the best I could say for it. There's a lot of gross humor, which I personally don't like. It actually started off okay too and I had hopes it might be funny, but it never really lifts to what it could be.
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I'm becoming a little exhausted by Melissa McCarthy. When she's put in a group, sure, she works well. On her own though, it just never seems to stand. With the exception of Spy, which even then I didn't think was that great, all her movies are profoundly meh. They're not even bad necessarily, just meh. It's the same thing here. The story is cute I guess though we've seen it before , the characters are fine, and there were one or two jokes that were genuinely funny.
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But was it worth those one or two jokes for the overall period where I was just kinda' bored by the movie? The movies not good, but it's not really bad either. Low expectations may have played a role, but from the get-go we are aware of who McCarthy's Deanna is; we've met someone like her in our own lives. Her sweaters are beyond glorious.
The supporting cast of Gillian Jacobs as Coma Girl, Debby Ryan as the token mean girl, Jessie Ennis as this completely weird, but totally endearing fellow sorority sister to Deanna's daughter, Maddie Molly Gordon , are each fantastic in their own well-defined way. That's not mentioning SNL's Heidi Gardner as Deanna's agoraphobic new roommate, Chris Parnell as a corny archaeology professor, Matt Walsh as the tool bag ex-husband and Julie Bowen as his new bride-to-be who are each provided their moments to shine.
Maya Rudolph steals every scene she's in, Stephen Root and Jacki Weaver are adorably clueless as Deanna's parents, and Luke Benward who initially seems he will serve no purpose other than eye candy turns in a strong comedic turn and whose role in the story sets up one of the best and most surprising scenes the movie has to offer. The "80's party" and oral presentation scenes solidify just how much fun this movie is to experience if you're not already on board with everything going on by the time we get into these sequences, but even better is the fat Life of the Party is consistently hilarious.
I can't wait to watch this again and share it with more people. Just in time for Mother's Day weekend comes two eminently bland, safe, and unmemorable movies that generally waste their female stars.
Melissa McCarthy has proven herself one of the most funny and dynamic performers in comedy, but Life of the Party is a listless and groan-inducing back-to-school comedy that feels tonally off, adopting the persona of its tacky, talky, and awkward middle-aged mother. You would think the premise would lead to plenty of R-rated shenanigans, but instead the film adopts a very sedate PG atmosphere, dulling the wild collegiate experience into something so predictable and safe as to be completely inoffensive.
It feels like a caricature reminiscent of a feature-length rendition of a Saved by the Bell: Life of the Party Theatrical release poster. British Board of Film Classification.
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