Melissa McCarthy might be in charge in her own inner circle,
but do audiences and Hollywood respect her?
You're watching Beyond The Trailer's review of The Boss...
Paul Feig. Husband and creative partner Ben Falcone. Universal and Fox. They all respect
Melissa McCarthy - because she's made them a lot of money. In fact, McCarthy is one of
the few female comedians working today - if not the only one - to have broken free of
Judd Apatow and become her own stand alone brand. Sure, she consistently makes movies
with Paul Feig, but she also consistently makes movies without him. She is as hardcore
behind the camera as she is in front of it, and with the exception of Tammy she's produced
impressive results. In fact she's just coming off of her biggest stand alone hit, Feig's
Spy which made over two hundred and thirty-five million worldwide - with just a sixty-five
million budget. The Boss was supposed to keep that momentum going, a film which brilliantly
updates Troop Beverly Hills without having to pay the creators of Troop Beverly Hills
any money. And then with the one-two punch of Spy and The Boss, McCarthy would then deliver
the knockout blow with Ghostbusters. Ah, Ghostbusters. Surely McCarthy, and Universal, wish that
Sony would've waited to debut that film's trailer until after The Boss hit theaters.
But that's not how things went down. Instead Sony debuted the trailer on March 3rd, with
Feig paying a visit to The Ellen DeGeneres show with the unfortunate headline "Girls
vs Ghouls". The internet collectively threw up, with so much hate spewed not only towards
the reboot but the cast that Sony started deleting YouTube comments on the trailer - of
course to no avail. Now McCarthy's relationship with movie audiences doesn't seem so solid,
and husband Falcone - who directed her one flop Tammy - is perhaps not the best person
to try and mend that relationship. Then on top of all that, Chris Rock did a girl scout
cookie gag at the Oscars, where McCarthy was noticeable absent. Although considering how
the gag bombed, perhaps that was for the best. So will The Boss undeservedly become collateral
damage to all the undeserved, misogynistic internet hate for Ghostbusters? Or will it
only offer proof that maybe the haters are right about McCarthy...?