TOO MUCH MCCARTHY?

‘THE BOSS’ TRAILER REVIEW BY METRO CREW

After business mogul Michelle (Melissa McCarthy) is released from prison for insider trading, she’s got nothing left. Her former assistant, Claire (Kristen Bell), takes her in, and Michelle is soon back to scheming — this time enlisting Claire’s daughter to a build a brownie-selling empire.

The Boss opens in wide release April 8.

CHRISTINA: There were definitely funny parts of the trailer — “Buy my brownies or I will f***ing kill you” with her dead-pan delivery — but overall, it looks pretty dumb. I don’t like how in some comedies, there are characters who are so over the top that they don’t seem real at all. That seems to be the case here with Melissa McCarthy’s character.

JAIMIE: I worry that McCarthy keeps pigeonholing herself into the same role. It works sometimes, like in Bridesmaids and The Heat. But now it kind of seems that every role she takes is another reiteration of those same characters.

JAMES: Seems like McCarthy continues to go back to the well that sprung out of Bridesmaids. But she’s not that funny in this movie. Kristen Bell doesn’t seem to give her much to work with either. The most humorous parts were of other people reacting to McCarthy’s character, and Bell’s reactions were kind of boring.

PAIGE: McCarthy is getting played out. She needs to go away for a little while, be chill and cool and quiet. It’s like how Zach Galifianakis was everywhere for a while after The Hangover movies. When you rely on this kind of over-the-top humor, you can’t overdo it. I’d say Seth Rogen is a good model of how frequently you can appear in crazy comedies without being tiresome.

JAIMIE: She’s good at it, she really is. There’s something very human about her portrayal of these people sometimes, despite the absurdity of whatever they are doing or saying … but the trailer seemed chock full of cheap laughs and jokes that fell kind of flat.

JAMES: The amount of profanity they crammed into this red band trailer approaches some sort of poetry. Every $#!%, #!&% and @$&% crackled and popped like some kind of pentameter. Each pairing was like an R-rated form of “cellar door.” It was kind of nice. Pleasant.

NICOLE: I am a fan of extremely vulgar movies. I think that’s how real people talk, and it makes me laugh.

PAIGE: Nothing about the trailer struck me as funny at all. Nobody’s emotions seemed real to balance out the zany antics. That weird girl scout fight scene at the end looked too fake to be funny. I dunno. I’m not feeling it at all.

NICOLE: The girl scout fight was great. Little children and preteens beating the crap out of each other is funnier than adults doing it.