Life of the Party | May 11, 2018 | Warner Bros./New Line | Melissa McCarthy

[WrathOfHan]

This looks like the most boring comedy imaginable. 

[SLAM!]

It has the potential for its target audience to find some of the jokes funny, but beyond that, it's gonna struggle to persuade other filmgoers to see it.

 

Unless I missed her, they didn't even have Shannon Purser in the trailer. Missed opportunity to advertise to the hardcore Stranger Things fans that would recognize her.

[DAJK]

Probably will do Snatched numbers

[CoolioD1]

i think it looks pretty funny. is gillian jacobs supposed to be playing college age? because no no no.

[That One Girl]

Just now, CoolioD1 said:

i think it looks pretty funny

 

 

[filmlover]

I wish McCarthy would stop collaborating with her husband on movies cause they haven't turned out well. Tammy was trash and The Boss was only intermittently funny. I'll see this but it doesn't look like it'll be a massive improvement from those efforts either.

[Krissykins]

Yeh I absolutely love Melissa McCarthy but her previous films with her husband, Tammy and The Boss were awful. 

 

This has a better trailer than those two though. 

[75Live]

yeah another unfunny McCarthy movie.  She is more miss than hit with me and this looks like another miss

[Taylor]

She really squandered a lot of goodwill by continuing to prop up her unfunny husband.

[StevenG]

Why is she still doing comedies with him? I am baffled. Their last two joints were reviled by critics and did progressively less money. She should go back to Feig. Even Ghostbusters got solid reviews (even if the box office was tepid for the kind of film it was and the expectations the studio had)

[Box Office Hit]

Looks terrible

[babz06]

16 hours ago, StevenG said:

Why is she still doing comedies with him? I am baffled. Their last two joints were reviled by critics and did progressively less money. She should go back to Feig. Even Ghostbusters got solid reviews (even if the box office was tepid for the kind of film it was and the expectations the studio had)

Keep the money in the family? What other reason could there be. 

[Avatree]

Crazy thought, if you get to work with the love of your life making something yourselves, when you're both in control of what you're working on, you enjoy it and you make money from it... why would you stop? Good for her, I say. Even if it sucks for us people who actually consume the end product.

[StevenG]

4 hours ago, Tree Billboards said:

Crazy thought, if you get to work with the love of your life making something yourselves, when you're both in control of what you're working on, you enjoy it and you make money from it... why would you stop? Good for her, I say. Even if it sucks for us people who actually consume the end product.

I totally get that.

However, would continued critical turds that also post diminishing returns not impact her A-list status, and thus, negatively affect her future clout (salary, demand for roles, industry cachet)? 

Who knows? I wish her the best because I really think she is a talented funnylady.

Edited February 7, 2018 by StevenG

[TombRaider]

she was only funny in bridesmaids but i guess trumps america loves ha

[StevenG]

3 minutes ago, TombRaider said:

she was only funny in bridesmaids but i guess trumps america loves ha

Huh?

[TombRaider]

On 7/2/2018 at 6:36 PM, StevenG said:

Huh?

lol. she's only succcesful in USA for a reason...

 

22/81

[Barnack]

41 minutes ago, TombRaider said:

lol. she's only succcesful in USA for a reason...

 

22/81

That is quite common for comedians outside Jim Carrey, Murphy and Sandler to play bigger in the USA than the rest of the world combined

 

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Actor&id=sethrogen.htm

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Actor&id=zachgalifianakis.htm

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Actor&id=willferrell.htm

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=stevecarell.htm

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=kevinjames.htm

 

Specific comedy does not travel that well usually and the actor presence if dubbed become useless.

Edited February 14, 2018 by Barnack

[TombRaider]

15 minutes ago, Barnack said:

That is quite common for comedians outside Jim Carrey, Murphy and Sandler to play bigger in the USA than the rest of the world combined

 

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Actor&id=sethrogen.htm

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Actor&id=zachgalifianakis.htm

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Actor&id=willferrell.htm

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=stevecarell.htm

 

Specific comedy does not travel that well usually and the actor presence if dubbed become useless.

Yeah you're right. but those dont headline movies like melissa. she's A list while those actors arent

[Eric S'ennui]