Directed By: Ben Falcone
Written By: Melissa McCarthy & Ben Falcone
Cinematography By: Julio Macat
Editor: Brian Scott Olds
Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Matt Walsh, Julie Bowen, Molly Gordon, Gillian Jacobs, Debby Ryan, Jacki Weaver, Stephen Root, Chris Parnell, Jimmy O. Yang, Nat Faxon, Adria Arjona, Luke Benward, Jessie Ennis
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.
This seems to basically be a defanged female version of BACK TO SCHOOL with much less conflict and worse way too easily an acceptance by the child. When her parent decides to enroll in the same college as her.
It’s uninspired check your brain at the door entertainment, but it does make you feel good by the end.
The film comes off as bland almost a family comedy with some racy material in it. As essentially by the end that is what seems to be the message. As the college scenes contain no menace and even the bitchy college girls seem more tame and the type you are used to from high school movies or television shows and don’t even majorly affect the plot. It feels almost like a Disney movie.
The film has the right idea and materials yet the script feels unfinished and rushed like it needs a few more drafts to make the film feel more specific and loved in rather than just a fantasy. There are plenty of moments that are fun ln throughout the film But the film doesn’t seems to keep them together. So that you wait a bunch of times for it to come.
The film has a nice mood but comes off as bland for the most part. As there are a bunch of funny characters but it seems they lack detail and are glossed over while of course Melissa McCarthy gets all the definition.
Melissa McCarthy is one of the best qualities of the movie. She creates a great comedic character who is more of an every woman and hilarious. Especially in her physical comedy and in creating a believable character but seems to take it easy as her character isn’t asked to do too much in the form of challenges. So she doesn’t seem to have to work as hard or out in as much effort for laughs.
Maya Rudolph is hilarious and steals all of her scenes
This just feels like a film that is out to appeal to any and all audience members whole also feeling like a middle aged fantasy for mom’s and parents with the younger lovers and most of the young characters wanting her around.
It just felt a little forced that everyone pretty much accepts her with no effort for being herself and she never truly tries in fact until the third act it never seems like the film is ever going to throw something in her way. So the film never feels quite realistic as there is so little conflict The there are barely and stakes. Everything just feels Way too convenient
Even the details seem weirdly open and confusing. It seems like her daughter is just going off to college. Yet by the end she seems to be graduating even though her mother only needed one year to graduate it seems like she is also and her boyfriend who she seemed to go off to college with isn’t. Also even when they drop off her daughter she seems already into a sorority which the mother joins rather easily, Also eventually. Even though it seemed more like a dorm then a sorority at first.
Even the conflict feels tacked on. As the film backs itself Into a corner and realizes it has to have a point where things go wrong for her prosper against.
As even towards the end the mean girls seem to be on her side but look mad at her in the scene of her final class
Grade: D+
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