Sure the premise and plot of Superintelligence is rather silly and sleight, but damn it if you won't laugh and smile all the way through. The film is filled with truly funny people, with the always enjoyable McCarthy at the centre, and so despite any script failures the film is just damn hilarious.
This is the sort of film you don't want to think very hard about. Once you go down the rabbit hole of just how much an AI would behave the way the one does in this film, how the plot it creates and the reactionary plot the world's governments create to counter act it would NOT work, you end up just wasting your time. Let it go and just use this as an excuse to watch McCarthy and some extremely funny people (I'm looking at you Brian Tyree Henry) riff off each other.
McCarthy is truly talented and as much as she can hit it out of the park, she can also strike out. This is neither. It's a bunt that gets her to first base. And it's an enjoyable 106 minutes. It doesn't reach the heights of Spy or Bridesmaids, doesn't give her the showcase of a Can You Ever Forgive Me?, but it's way more fun than that some of her stinkers.
Superintelligence
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, James Corden, Octavia Spencer, Bobby Canavale, Brian Tyree Henry, Jean Smart, Sam Richardson Ben Falcone
Director: Ben Falcone
Writer: Steve Mallory
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