When she gets out of jail, she seeks help from her former assistant, single mom Claire ( Kirsten Bell), who works at a job she hates and can bake a mean batch of brownies. McCarthy plays Michelle Darnell, a business mogul who loses everything when she’s convicted of insider trading (to the film’s credit, it doesn’t try to say she was framed to the film’s discredit, she doesn’t really seem to feel any regret for committing white collar crime). It’s a movie that’s perfectly fine, but it does raise the question of what makes McCarthy a special talent or if she’s just queen of a very limited domain? It’s an R-rated comedy, but none of the R-rated jokes will shock audiences. It knows how to use its lead actress and co-writer Melissa McCarthy fairly well while rarely challenging her or pushing her beyond her comfort zone.
It’s a movie that exists, and it’s a movie that made me laugh intermittently while I was watching it. There’s nothing particularly bad about Ben Falcone’s The Boss.
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