In fact, the only real villain is an outmoded, sexist conception of womanhood and femininity. Salma Hayek ( The Hitman’s Bodyguard), as the corporate type who wants to glom onto the popularity of Mel and Mia’s company, is less than wholly villainous, her over-the-top va-va-vooming a knowing caricature of narrow notions of what “success” has been allowed to look like in women… and of how women can be trapped by that. Billy Porter ( Noel) and Jennifer Coolidge ( Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip), as Mel and Mia’s employees, are bright and bubbly. Haddish and Byrne bring a warm, comfortable, teasing sisterhood to their realistically complex friendship. Like a peacock?Īnd yet… real humor does blossom, in the terrific performances of the amusing cast. Take those unnecessary asides away, and this very short movie would barely qualify as a feature… but that’s still no reason for them to be here. It also wouldn’t be unfair to call the script - by Sam Pitman, Adam Cole-Kelly, and Danielle Sanchez-Witzel - lazy, falling back way too much on unnecessary slapstick and grossouts that aren’t funny and, much more offensively, are frequently completely tangential. A pile of instantly forgettable fluff it may be, this tale of two lifelong besties, Mia (Tiffany Haddish: The Angry Birds Movie 2) and Mel (Rose Byrne: Juliet, Naked), entrepreneurs whose friendship and dedication to independence for their cosmetics brand is challenged when Big Makeup wants to buy them out. God help me, but I didn’t hate Like a Boss.
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