Life of the Party
When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into re-set by going back to college... landing in the same class and school as her daughter, who's not entirely sold on the idea. Plunging headlong into the campus experience, the increasingly outspoken Deanna – now Dee Rock – embraces freedom, fun and frat boys on her own terms, finding her true self in a senior year no one ever expected.
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- Cast：
- Melissa McCarthy , Molly Gordon , Gillian Jacobs , Maya Rudolph , Matt Walsh , Julie Bowen , Stephen Root
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A waste of 90 minutes of my life
I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.
The acting in this movie is really good.
This movie is the reason I do not go to the movies anymore. Hollywood putting out crap! I want my $6 back I just paid to watch at home. Here's the storyline:mom gets divorced mom goes to college mom joins sorority mom parties mom sleeps with college student who turns out to be ex-husband's new wife's son - really???? mom graduatesI kept waiting for it to get funny, but it never did. The only time I laughed is when I saw a t-shirt one of the girls was wearing that said:ALCOHOL YOU LATER
I sat through this wondering what was the name of that other really awful McCarthy film, then cringed some more at this attempt at humour. I was convinced that it must have been written by a misogynistic young man. Not only were the female characters caricatures, but one gal even used a term of the crazed Incels as the name for her lady parts. I wanted to laugh, but instead I felt sick watching this. I've been a fan of McCathy since 'Pumpkin', which is one of my all time favourite films. Satire that knows it's satire. By the end this film, I was sad. I saw it was written by Melissa herself and her husband Ben Falcone, who also directed. It was this same collaboration that gave us the unfortunate 'Tammy', which was that other really awful McCarthy film that I was thinking of. I understand wanting to have film babies with your spouse. It's great! These two are brilliant together as actors, 'Bridesmaids' was a prime example of that, but not collaborators in writing and directing. The process must be fun, but the results are not pretty. I'll avoid seeing 'The Boss' and the latest 'Superintelligence', which was written by Steve Mallory, but it's only his 3rd ever writing credit. The second was 'The Boss', with Falcone and McCarthy. I really do hope to see Melissa in something good again, one day.
Are you ever frustrated whilst watching a movie at a cinema because you can't just press "pause" to go to the toilet or do something else without missing anything? Well this movie definitely won't give you that sense of frustration - no matter how much of it you miss, you'll still feel like you've watched too much of it.I'm thinking maybe Falcone owed someone a massive favour, but if I was in his position I'd have chosen cement shoes over creating this train-wreck.McCarthy was never really much of an actress - never really much of anything, really - and she doesn't disappoint with her appearance in this flick. Think Roseanne Barr without the appeal (now that's really saying something!).With writing that wouldn't earn a pass mark in primary school and acting that would evoke eggs and tomatoes if it was performed in public, you'll be gnashing your teeth in no time at all.
This movie was full of old, stale, done a million times college cliches. The most disturbing part was the utter lack of any research to make the plot more realistic, very lazy writing. This writing duo should retire ASAP.!
