Other dumb things get in the way, and then it’s dumb how other things don’t get in the way. Ignoring child labor laws entirely, the girls start selling brownies made at a frankly impossible pace to meet a ridiculous demand (the child labor thing, by the way, is never addressed… though I do think that an interesting case could be made that the girls getting 10% of girl scout cookie sales (with another 10% being put towards college) wouldn’t necessarily be such a bad thing (I bought six boxes of Thin Mints this year, and they lasted me about two weeks (unrelated but still kind of relevant)))). At some point, McCarthy decides to create a for-profit rival to a Girl Scouts analog called the Dandelions. She finds her former assistant (Kristen Bell), and is offered a chance to stay with her for a little while while she finds her feet, despite the fact that McCarthy was terrible to her. An obscenely rich woman (McCarthy) does some insider trading, and six months later she comes out of jail completely broke. (But I laughed really hard at this scene.) From there, it would have had to go to some really bad places to have lost me completely. And it was enough that I was content having seen it.
#T PAIN THE BOSS MOVIE MOVIE#
I don’t care what anyone says about the rest of the movie that sequence is gold. It’s probably a stupid scene, but T-Pain comes out to sing the chorus when it plays again, and they’re dancing, and it’s awesome. I loved the scene where T-Pain came out, when Melissa McCarthy raps along to DJ Khaled’s “All I Do Is Win” (which, you should know, I listen to at least once every few days (usually multiple times in a row)) while dancing and showing off how rich and awesome she is. Like, I feel bad as a critic to say that I really liked The Boss. And it looks awful on pretty much every level. I watched it just now, and it made me wonder how it’s possible that I so enjoyed the movie that this was selling.
It’s the film’s official Red Band trailer. You can if you want, but you really shouldn’t. I don’t think you should watch that trailer.