![]() Get ready for a barrage of bits about Corden’s gently lilting voice or his underrated talent. Oh, and a generally unfunny ego stroke for James Corden, whose voice Superintelligence assumes because it know it will calm Carol down. But aside from a half-hearted pivot into a potentially hellish third act, Superintelligence is a mostly harmless, not-entirely-charmless romcom with McCarthy and Cannavale (whose unclenching is welcome albeit in the service of pure airlessness). ![]() ![]() There are the usual government interlopers: Falcone and Sam Richardson ( VEEP) as a pair of G-men on Carol’s tail a Hillary Clinton stand-in POTUS (Jean Smart) Brain Tyree Henry ( Atlanta) as Denny, a Microsoft hotshot and Carol’s friend who becomes the official tech advisor once Superintelligence makes itself known to him. Naturally, all of this comes down to her feelings for George, a professor about to relocate from Seattle to Ireland. How she responds to Superintelligence over the next few days will determine what it does to the human race - leave it be, enslave it or eradicate it. spikes into a sentience a la Skynet but sassy, it deems Carol to be the epitome of an average human. If Superintelligence is to transcend the typical McCarthy memory-hole, its comparatively high concept will be the reason why: Carol is a one-time internet whiz who left that industry to pursue loftier civic goals and, oddly, seems vexed by any form of contemporary technology. And it plants McCarthy squarely in Adam Sandler territory - slapping together at-best passable fare as streaming-service background noise and tapping the side of her nose when she’s doing something truly engaging a la Can You Ever Forgive Me? It’s a bottom-line blessing for Warner Brothers, given empty auditoriums that would’ve certainly awaited it even without a pandemic. Superintelligence is skipping theaters for the HBOMax streaming service (where it’s now available). But the colloquial Spanish for “so-so” comes closest to a self-own for McCarthy and company, which once again includes her husband, Ben Falcone, directing as he did for Tammy, The Boss and Life of the Party - all films from the last six years that might as well be 16. Sure, Mas o Menos might describe margaritas, mariachis and possibly treacherous guacamole. Everything you need to know about Superintelligence is in the name of the Mexican restaurant where Carol (Melissa McCarthy) and George (Bobby Cannavale), her one that got away, share a meal.
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