It’s the perfect comedy for an airplane.


The idea is clever. The casting is pretty great. And there are some really funny moments.


But the story structure is wildly inconsistent and it just doesn’t quite gel.


It’s not complicated. Uptight FBI agent gets stuck with a wildcard Boston cop, the shit gets deep, unexpected truths are revealed between the women, and in the third act, they team up, somewhat reversing roles, for a big, fun ending.


So, for instance, Melissa McCarthy’s movie family, led by Jane Burtain as her mom, is nearly perfect. But it gets mushy at times. And while Michael Rappaport behaves in ways that make no sense, there never is the great scene with McCarthy & Jane Curtain… as how she came from Curtain’s womb is a great comic premise.


Flip side, Sandra Bullock is Ms. Lonely… but that too is not played on enough or consistently enough (with Marlon Wayans as the threat to be interesting to her). And the fact that McCarthy’s rager has men in every storefront they enter should be really funny. There are plenty of reasons why McCarthy’s no BS character would be attractive to all kinds of guys, even more than Bullock’s more classic cutie. But it’s almost as though it was there, but they didn’t want to pull the trigger too hard.


Anyway… amusing enough. Not much more than that. It had the potential to be a minor classic. ut the film screams for structure that it doesn’t have. And as fun as the many improved hijinks are, they don’t add up to a complete, clear, comic vision.


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