Rose Byrne and Tiffany Haddish flex their comedic muscles in this laugh out loud comedy. Here is our Back to the Movies Like A Boss movie review.
Best friends for life Mia and Mel run their own cosmetics company — a business they built from the ground up. But they’re also in over their heads financially, and the prospect of a buyout offer from an industry titan proves too tempting to pass up.
The beauty business is now about to get ugly as the proposal puts Mia and Mel’s lifelong friendship to the ultimate test.
With a superb supporting cast including Jennifer Coolidge, Bill Porter, Karan Soni, Ryan Hansen, and Jimmy O Yang I quite enjoyed Like A Boss.
Whilst for large portions of the film the script decides to go down raunchy channels to drive home comedy it’s still worth a watch.
The raunchy lines and the consistency of which they’re delivered dampened the natural comedy that both Rose Byrne and Tiffany Haddish share.
Haddish is a comedic genius never failing to make me laugh in every movie she undertakes. Having a script dip into the filthy jokes now and again is never frowned upon. Sadly Like A Boss swims in them from start to finish. It really isn’t needed.
Amidst all the raunchy chaos there is a heartfelt scene between Mia (Haddish) and Mel (Bryne) as they talk about friendship and life. They discuss how growing up together provided that much-needed support for one another.
A slow, touching moment in an otherwise chaotically fast-paced but mostly hilarious comedy.
The funniest scene in the entire flick came courtesy of Billy Porter. After hearing some bad news he puts on a display of epic proportions that had me crying my eyes out. The film was worth a watch for that overly campy and dramatically hilarious scene alone.
Billy Porter really needed more screentime to truly amplify the natural comedy above the gutter level jokes that swamp this particular feature.
I’m a man of simple humor though, I admittedly laughed at every single dirty joke. Shoot me?
Playing make-up mogul Claire Luna, Salma Hayek is almost unrecognizable in Like A Boss. Whilst her character is not really explored we get the gist of this Devil Wears Prada Miranda Priestly style character. This stone-faced business-driven woman who will walk over anyone to get where she needs to be in life.
Her interactions with Haddish and Byrne are rather funny although there’s not enough screentime between them all to allow that comedy to flourish. It feels very choppy and very rushed at times.
But that’s just a minor oversight that did bug me quite a bit throughout.
As a whole, to answer my original question. Yes, Like A Boss is well worth a watch!
Like A Boss didn’t get a good positive reception from the critics. It’s one of those films that never finds its feet with toffee-nosed reporters.
Like A Boss is exactly the type of film that finds its feet with the general public. I can see it having a much better reception there.
Haddish and Byrne know this movie isn’t going to be picking up awards anytime soon. It’s just a film that embraces the craziness. A film that provides some much-needed humor to an otherwise bleak world we’re currently living in.
A huge thank you to Paramount Pictures for sending me a screener to review amidst all the craziness going on right now!
Like A Boss review by Sean Evans
Like A Boss is available to download and keep from April 13th
Our Rating
Summary
Foul-mouthed and fun Like A Boss is well worth a watch with some genuine laugh out loud moments.
