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Could the 80's classic "Back to School" be remade now AND be funny?
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ISN'T THAT BASICALLY WHAT MELISSA MCCARTHY'S NEW MOVIE IS?
QuoteMcCarthy plays Deanna, a newly divorced housewife who enrolls at Decatur University to study archaeology. Right from the starting gate, the comedian feels harnessed by a plot that asks us to pity this woman because her jerk husband (Veep‘s Matt Walsh) has dumped her for another woman (Modern Family‘s Julie Bowen). Complications arise because Deanna’s daughter Maddie (Molly Gordon) is a senior at the same school. How can the kid not be horrified and humiliated that her mom will be around delivering snacks and mother-henning all over the place? Before you ask, “Say, doesn’t this sound like Rodney Dangerfield’s 1986 Back to School with a sex charge”, let us assure folks that Life of the Party is not even remotely in the same hilarious league. It has PG-13 marshmallows where its metaphorical balls should be.