McCarthy delivers another movie flop
the murders of puppets who once starred on a popular TV show.
The comedy is overloaded with raunchy humour, the trailer features among other things puppets fornicating, and flopped with critics and moviegoers alike.
Deemed “painfully unfunny” and “a joyless, soulless slog”, it debuted this past weekend at just $10.1 million (R147m) – a career-low wide release for McCarthy. “A few critics are calling it the worst movie of the year,” Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers wrote in his review. “Unfair!
the R-rated look at a serial killer running wild in a puppet-populated LA, has what it takes to be a contender for worst of the decade.”
A brutal assessment, but especially so for a movie whose lead actress’s career has already taken a number of hits over the past few years.
premiered a few months after McCarthy’s mom-goes-to-college flop, which has a 38% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The movie’s tag line asked viewers to “give life the old college try,” but critics, dismayed by lacklustre writing, couldn’t make the same request. McCarthy co-wrote the screenplay with the director, her husband Ben Falcone. And let’s not forget 2016’s
which features McCarthy as a wealthy motivational speaker who lands in jail for insider trading and, after her release, moves in with her former assistant (Kristen Bell).
Like the others, it features an interesting enough story, written again by star McCarthy and director Falcone, along with Steve Mallory, but fails to tell it well.
Actually, maybe we should forget RIGHTING WRONGS: In as Deanna, a divorced mom who re-e dropping out of school to raise a kid.