![]() ![]() Part of a sorority that is redefining what funny means in movies, Ms. But, as it turns out, sometimes it’s pleasurable enough just watching the most unlikely American comedy star since Bill Murray slip into a groove. McCarthy’s precision comedic timing and natural screen presence. There isn’t much filmmaking in it, outside of Ms. It’s a fitful amalgam of bouncy and slack laughs mixed in with some blasts of pure physical comedy and loads of yammering heads. The movie is funny without being much good mostly, it’s another rung on Ms. McCarthy sells with slapstick, you-go-girl uplift and a Kewpie doll smile that’s one twitch short of pure madness. She’s peddling empowerment of a kind, as is this movie, gleefully silly froth that Ms. Wildly successful, Michelle fills stadiums with true believers who drink her snake oil by the tanker, cheering as she preaches the gospel of personal riches and the power of you you you, even if it’s really all about her her her. In her new laugh-in, “The Boss,” Melissa McCarthy plays Michelle Darnell, an investment guru with a motivational racket along the inspirational lines of Tony Robbins and Suze Orman. ![]()
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