The Boss Review

Story: Melissa McCarthy headlines The Boss as a titan of the industry who is sent to prison for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.

This is another comedy from the husband/wife duo of Melissa and husband Ben Falcone, Tammy being their first directed team effort movie.  Kristen Bell, Kathy Bates and Peter Dinklage co-star as her assistant, her idol and her ex-lover Ron. Its a great cast which is full of great laughs, some sadly which are spoiled from the trailer.

As the story goes her ex lover gets her thrown in jail for insider trading and when she comes back out, he's taken her company away from her. So, she stays with her ex-assitant, Claire, for a while until she comes up with a plan. After tasting Claire's brownies and taking Claire's daughter, Rachel, to her Girl Guide's meeting Michelle creates a group of tough ass chick girl guides selling brownies.

The shenanigans she gets up to with the girls, the street fight, are hilarious and worth the price of admission. Eventually, things get awkward when Rachel gives Michelle a family made gift. This causes her to cut Claire out of the girl brownie guides and eventually she sells the company all because, like her idol (played by Kathy Bates) she gets to close to her business partner and she breaks things off.

It is a surprisingly short film which climaxes in a heist to steal the papers about selling the company to her ex, Ron. Dinklage is a perfect comedian and is perfect in this, he goes so far as to sword fight with Melissa, which was both cool (he was in Game of thrones) and hilarious. Kristen was great as ever, her best scene is the bra scene with Melissa, which was sadly spoiled in trailers. Kathy Bates was also quiet the funny bone tickler as she played up the role of Boss to Michelle. Tyler Labine from  comedies such as Tucker and Dale vs. Evil and Animal Practice plays the love interest of Kristen and gets a funny role to play in the film's third act. Comedian Kristen Schaal also appears as one of the girl guide leaders, she provides some good chuckles as well.

While not as emotional as Tammy or gut wrenchingly funny as Spy it is still a fun enjoyable little movie to see for fans of Melissa McCarthy, she is a true comedian and will knock all expectations out of the park this summer with Ghostbusters!

Rating: B