The husband and wife team
of Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy have come up with yet another fun comedy, Life
of the Party, which is all built around the ability of McCarthy to play
against whatever stereotype the pair (who co-wrote) can conjure up.
Warner Bros. Home
Entertainment announced this past week that Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack and
stand-alone DVD editions of Life of the Party will be ready for
fans to enjoy on Aug. 7.
That street date yields
an ARR of 88 days and domestic box office receipts currently stand at $50.3
million.
After Tammy
and The
Boss — and now Life of the Party — the duo can bank
just about any funny idea that they can come up with. Indeed, the combo of Falcon directing and
McCarthy starring in will be back during the Christmas season of 2019 with a
little something titled Superintelligence.
Until then, we have Life
of the Party, where McCarthy plays an unfulfilled middle-aged housewife
by the name of Deanna, who gets dumped for a younger woman by her husband Dan
(played by Matt Walsh) as their daughter, Maddie (Molly Gordon), heads off to
her senior year in college.
It’s the perfect role for
McCarthy as a comedian. In the early
scenes she is a frump, stuck in a rut and seemingly with no future, other than
just getting older and doing the same thing over and over again. Which is more or less the definition of
insanity.
The break from Dan, who
really rubs it in — everything is in his name and he’s selling their home
(filmed in Georgia, property owned prior to marriage is not considered
community property) — gives her a nothing-to-lose sense of freedom. In the backstory we learn that she became
pregnant with Maddie during her senior year at college and was forced to drop
out.
Bingo! Back to college and get that degree. Melissa McCarthy turned loose in a college
atmosphere … from middle age frump to party animal (with a really cool twist). Life of the Party is a terrific idea
and very, very funny!!
The bonus feature common
to both SKUs is the featurette titled “’80s Party.” Exclusive to the Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack are
deleted scenes, a gag reel, the featurette titled “Mom Sandwich” and two other
gadgets — “Line-o-Rama” and “Bill Hate-o-Rama.”
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