Very few movie stars these days have managed to craft their image as well as Melissa McCarthy. (PaPa, BB, CC, CapCap, Ho, LLL, VV, S, A, DD, MM) Strong mixed pagan worldview with a lot of crude content and a few over-the-top lewd references, but with a moral, redemptive premise and other positive elements (including a Catholic nun is depicted in a positive way helping an unwanted child and forgiveness is eventually extolled, as is family), plus there’s a strong pro-capitalist theme promoting hard work and other capitalist values, but there are a few crude and/or implied homosexual references in a couple scenes at least 103 obscenities and eight profanities characters comically slap or punch each other a few times, an epic slow-motion battle royale between warring factions of girls and their leaders over cookie-selling territory with punching and kicking and setting two vehicles on fire, and a comical swordfight some lewd foul language about homosexuality in a couple scenes (including a couple allusions to lesbian experimentation in one scene), implied fornication in a flashback and a comical scene about fitting into a bra no nudity alcohol use flashback implies a couple snorted cocaine during the 1990s many verbal and threatening insults (often laced with vulgarity) played for laughs, it’s implied woman accidentally exposed her private parts to her assistant while spray tanning, several families keep rejecting child given up for adoption until she becomes bitter about families and other humans.
THE BOSS could have been a much more family-friendly, acceptable movie without the foul, lewd elements. Also, the rest of the movie includes strong pro-family, pro-capitalist redemptive values. For example, the opening has a positive portrayal of a kindly Catholic nun. Especially since the movie includes solid moral, redemptive elements. Sadly, media-wise viewers will find the frequent foul language and some distasteful, lewd comical references to be unacceptable. THE BOSS has a consistently fresh and creative point of view, a well-drawn three-dimensional character in McCarthy’s Michelle, and many belly laughs. More comedy ensues when Michelle convinces Claire and Rachel to start a big business using the tasty chocolate brownies Claire bakes for Rachel’s scout troop. Michelle’s gets a new lease on life bonding with the two females.
Claire lets Michelle live with her and her daughter, Rachel, for awhile. She throws herself on the mercy of her long-suffering assistant, Claire. When she is released several months later, Michelle discovers the federal government has taken all her assets. THE BOSS stars Melissa McCarthy as Michelle Darnell, a hard-nosed businesswoman convicted of insider trading.
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