What a waste, not just of the two stars but of director Miguel Arteta ( Star Maps, The Good Girl, Duck Butter), an indie icon whose subversive spirit is quickly snuffed by this slick studio package. This film never comes close to that level of inspired raunch, losing steam through each of its meager but achingly redundant 83 minutes. Ladies-gone-wild comedies can come up aces: Haddish hit the sweet spot with Girls Trip, as did Byrne with Bridesmaids.
The duo work their butts off for laughs that the putatively femcentric script by two first-time screenwriters, Sam Pitman and Adam Cole Kelly, ungallantly fails to provide. But what actors! The comic tornado known as Tiffany Haddish seizes the role of Mia Carter, the creative wiz behind a DIY cosmetics company she runs with her numbers-minded best friend, Mel Paige, played by her up-for-anything costar Rose Byrne. So it’s not a good sign that the actors are spritzing up a storm in Like a Boss. The trick to creating successful screen farce is to make sure audiences don’t see you sweat.
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