Miley
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Like a Boss (2020)
R | 1h 23min | Comedy | 10 January 2020 (USA)
Score:
Wasn't going to bother seeing this, but it was raining so I thought I'd take a chance... The writing was on the wall when I arrived at the cinema to looks from the staff along the lines of "have you been drinking this evening?" Only me in the 400-seat auditorium and within ten minutes we were at a baby shower making jokes about a cake shaped like a vagina complete with chocolate flakes of "pubic hair"... Yep, that's about as sophisticated as this gets. A lifelong couple of friends (Rose Byrne & Tiffany Haddish) running a loss-making make up business find themselves in the sights of Salma Hayek who has a huge multi-national. She offers - a la "Dragons Den" - to pay off their debt in return for a huge stake in their company then tries to drive a wedge between them.... The dialogue is rapid-fire and suitably bad ass. but on the whole the film is puerile - though mercifully short. Hayek tries hard to salvage something from this dross but I'm afraid it's too limited in scope and aspiration to be witty or clever.
R | 1h 23min | Comedy | 10 January 2020 (USA)
Score:
Wasn't going to bother seeing this, but it was raining so I thought I'd take a chance... The writing was on the wall when I arrived at the cinema to looks from the staff along the lines of "have you been drinking this evening?" Only me in the 400-seat auditorium and within ten minutes we were at a baby shower making jokes about a cake shaped like a vagina complete with chocolate flakes of "pubic hair"... Yep, that's about as sophisticated as this gets. A lifelong couple of friends (Rose Byrne & Tiffany Haddish) running a loss-making make up business find themselves in the sights of Salma Hayek who has a huge multi-national. She offers - a la "Dragons Den" - to pay off their debt in return for a huge stake in their company then tries to drive a wedge between them.... The dialogue is rapid-fire and suitably bad ass. but on the whole the film is puerile - though mercifully short. Hayek tries hard to salvage something from this dross but I'm afraid it's too limited in scope and aspiration to be witty or clever.
