Super Intelligence

Melissa McCarthy does best when she’s part of an ensemble cast. The run of movies produced by her and her husband, in which she stars, are... not great. (e.g., Life of the Party, The Happytime Murders, Genie, etc.).

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I can’t decide if she is only mildly funny or if the scripts are too weak to take full advantage of her humor. Her style of comedy has a definite feel, though, and after a while it gets a bit flat.

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After the first scene, this movie slides downhill and stays there. The plot could have saved the movie - an AI is unsure if it should kill, enslave, or save humanity and will watch McCarthy’s every move for three days to gather the information it needs to make that decision - but it doesn’t.

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The casting is wrong, the writing is as simple as possible, and there is no chemistry between McCarthy and her co-star Bobby Cannavale.

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Beyond all that, this film doesn’t know what it wants to be. Is it a rags-to-riches tale of success, a rom-com, millennial science-fiction? Ultimately it's a terrible, dumbed-down movie full of overt product placement. Not recommended.

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