MOVIE - Life of the Party

PG-13 (1:45)

Wide release 5/11/18

Viewed 5/11/18 in Savannah, on our last night there, with Fran (opening night for this movie, too!)
IMBd:   5.5/10

RT Critic:  38  Audience: 44
Critic's Consensus:  Life of the Party's good-natured humor and abundance of onscreen talent aren't enough to make up for jumbled direction and a script that misses far more often than it hits.

Cag:  3.5 Liked it a lot, for the most part

Directed by Ben Falcone (I think that's Melissa McCarthy's husband)

New Line Cinema

Written by McCarthy & Falcone

Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Julie Bowen

My comments:  Knowing that it would be silly, stupid, and probably very funny in places, Fran and I decided to spend our last evening in Savannah at this movie.  That's exactly what it was:  silly, stupid, and very funny in lots of places.  Laugh really, really loud kind-of-funny.  Some of it was a real hoot.  There were three different scenes, however, that could have certainly been improved - taking out the eye-rolling stupid and continuing with the just-plain fun.  Oh well.

RT/ IMDb Summary:  When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna (McCarthy) turns regret into re-set by going back to college...landing in the same class and school as her daughter, who's not entirely sold on the idea. Plunging headlong into the campus experience, the increasingly outspoken Deanna-now Dee Rock-embraces freedom, fun and frat boys on her own terms, finding her true self in a senior year no one ever expected.