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. McCarthy doesn’t need soggy sentiment she’s better than that.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. Flashbacks show the young Michelle as a reject constantly returned to a Catholic orphanage by a series of horrified foster parents. She hates the idea of family - “it’s an anchor that will make you sink.” She has her reasons. Michelle treats mom and daughter terribly. On release from jail after four months, the bankrupt bossypants - who covers her neck with collars and bows to the point of distraction - moves into the cramped Chicago apartment of her single-mom assistant, Claire (a wasted Kristen Bell), and her tween daughter Rachel (Ella Anderson). And the role fits her like a second skin.

McCarthy created the character 15 years ago when she was a member of the Los Angeles improv troupe the Groundlings. McCarthy plays Michelle Darnell, the “47th wealthiest woman in the world” and a ruthless tycoon whom no one weeps for when she’s sent to prison for insider trading.

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