Hopefully the novel was better than the movie. **SPOILERS**
Just finished watching this and it is so condescending and sexist that I had a real hard time watching it to the end. The movie is overshadowed by the large number of un-funny and uncomfortably awkward moments. This movies was adapted from Liz Tuccillo's 2008 novel of the same name. It jumps back and forth between loosely connected stories. This muddles the movie's message and makes the plot hard to follow. One thing that really annoyed me were the constant time jumps without any indication of it actually happening.
The scene with Rebel Wilson and Dakota Johnson in the sauna is trying to be similar to the scene between Ryan Reynolds and T.J. Miller at the bar from Deadpool.
The scene with Alison Brie's character Lucy at the bookstore was totally unrealistic! While reading a story in a public bookstore the Lucy character has what can be best described as a psychological breakdown. Finding the last page of the children's book she was reading aloud to the kids missing she proceeds to rant about her recent failure at a relationship.(Supposedly from some sort of software she had developed to match her with her ideal guy) As the kids ask questions Lucy gets this maniacal crazed look in her eyes and goes off in men in general. She starts off by referring to the "Peach Lady" which confuses and starts to frighten the children the more she goes on about her. Next she continues by removing her hair extensions all the while becoming more angry at men in general. Which leads Lucy to rant about her "Spanx" and proceeds to try removing hers with a pair of children's scissors holding up her dress in front of all the kids and parents. This all happens around 51 or so minutes into the movie. Worse part is she is physically touching the children while she is in the middle of her "Spanx" rant about them hiding her "dumplings." The scene ends as the children are ushered away by the "George" character. Not really sure if he was supposed to be the bookstore owner or manager. Point is that doing something that crazy in a public bookstore would most likely result in a 24hr psychiatric hold!!! Also earn the Lucy character a place in the sexual offenders database! Trying to remove clothes / undergarments in public in front of a group of children and their parents while physically interacting with them holding a pair of children's scissors would end up with criminal charges being filed. The intervention a single individual would not have made the breakdown be forgotten or go away with zero repercussions.
Rebel Wilson's character Robin is supposedly able to party (binge drinking to excess) each and everyday and sleep with an unlimited amount of sexual partners all the while suffering from severe "blackouts" which cause memory loss. Worst part is that it is not revealed until near the end of the movie that Robin is wealthy and is actually NOT a co-worker / paralegal of Alice at the law firm where she supposedly worked for many months! Now I am no paralegal myself but I am fairly certain there would be some major issues / problems if someone was caught as a fake or non-existent employee at a major New York law firm. I mean it is not as if the character Lucy was some type of janitor whom would have had little to no interaction between the law firms clients on a daily basis for months and months she had a desk and computer access along with speaking to the firms clients on a daily basis.I am finding as time goes on that Melissa McCarthy and Rebel Wilson are becoming interchangeable. Rebel Wilson's act is wearing a little thin and becoming more and more predictable with the roles / characters she is choosing. I mean, Rebel could be any size & it wouldn't matter but she really seems to push the agenda sometimes, so it's hard to ignore.