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July 24, 2013
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Let’s Talk ‘Girl Most Likely’: Wiig and Bening Needed a Better Script
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Kenny Miles
Flooded with many estrogen-infused indie clichés, Girl Most Likely squanders its potential for any of the coveted crossover appeal few little movies can achieve. It’s adequate enough for a very shallow entertaining value and offers required viewing for big fans any of the actors involved only. What a let down of a movie that Girl Most Likely was. One would expect solid potential in casting Kristen Wiig as an aspiring writing who has a suicidal nervous breakdown and the crazy mother who takes her in played by Annette Bening. It reeks of potential especially since it played at film festivals. Not everything was a loss, but there isn’t much to work with as some moments are funny while others weren’t. I have worried that Bridesmaids star Melissa McCarthy could be typecast as a female Chris Farley based on her movie choices. Kristen Wiig should be careful or she will be the woman who finds humor in the painfully awkward identity and career crisis.
Let me use this time to rant about the flawed Rotten Tomatoes score regarding the 15% rating for Girl Most Likely. It is nowhere near that bad. It seems if a movie receives a C+, that’s a “rotten” score, but a B- is fresh. Girl Most Likely is a C, but shouldn’t be ranked as low as 15 out of 100. Moviegoers consume the Rotten Tomato score like mindless zombies. Time to revamp or over throw that scoring system. This post was written by :
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