The BM

Rating: 6/10 (24 March 2020)

This seems to be often sited as one of the best modern female comedies, the movie that put a spotlight on a number of talented ladies.
Watching it for the first time, I suppose I get it. It's doing something most female comedies aren't willing to do. It's crass, it's gross, it's vulgar. Things normally reserved for the fellas.
There in lies the problem. It's all stuff I've seen before, just with a different gender. Sure, it's funny at times, but it's also slow and clunky in some moments. I will give it that I do like the more restrained but still crass McCarthy but this is Wiig's movie and she owns it from start to finish.
It's fun, I admire it for what it's doing but I can't say it was an overwhelming success in my eyes. It was good. Just good.