Like A Boss is a comedy film directed by Miguel Arteta. The plot sees two best friends have their friendship tested after a businesswoman invests in their business. Mel (Rose Byrne) sees the buy out as a good thing and wants to learn from makeup mogul Claire Luna (Selma Hayek), whereas Mia (Tiffany Haddish), doesn’t like the outside control and worries they will become just another corporate cog. The friendship tears, but can they come back together again?
I enjoyed this film more than I thought I would. The humour was hit and miss for me, I found myself laughing when I didn’t expect to. I thought when the comedy went blue it was less funny, at least to me personally, but like I often say comedy is subjective.
I liked how this film just focused on the friendship, there was no romance subplot or anything else; it is really just a film dedicated to celebrating friendship. I think the fact it also highlight and lifts up female friendship is also really nice to see, the relationship between the two actors seems genuine and they’re believable as friends/ business partners.
I thought the plot was very by the numbers, most of the things that happen I have seen a hundred times before, so it wins to prizes for being novel or inventive.
Overall a surprisingly enjoyable, watchable comedy.
Pros.
Showing female friendship
No forced romance subplot
Byrne and Haddish
Cons.
Not all the jokes land
The plot is nothing new
The weak side characters
2.5/5
Reviewed by Luke
Another Millennial Reviewer 