SUPERINTELLIGENCE

★★

OUT NOW / CERT PG / 106

MINS DIRECTOR Ben Falcone

CAST Melissa Mccarthy, Bobby Cannavale, Brian Tyree Henry

Aiming to mix technological musings (a superintelligent AI picks Melissa Mccarthy’s “average person” as the basis for its decision to save, enslave or destroy humanity) with wacky comedy (Mccarthy’s Carol Peters is her usual offbeat character), Superintelligence is torn between two concepts that rarely connect. The high points are the lead’s easy chemistry with Bobby Cannavale, as the lost love with whom the AI (voiced by James Corden) tries to reunite her, and some amusing support from the likes of Brian Tyree Henry and Jean Smart. Looking to score more of a family audience than their raunchier efforts, Mccarthy and Falcone miss the mark when it comes to finding the right level. What you’re left with is Black Mirror with a lot less grey matter