recommended

One of the best films i have seen

just watch it!

From my favorite movies..

You know immediately when a movie is cheap when the opening scenes involves long shots of a car. Quickly followed seconds later after the parents drop their daughter off at the college when on the way out the husband tells his wife he wants a divorce to marry his real love, which as usual, seems to be a realtor (why so common in movies, I don't know). The rest of the movie consists of mom deciding to enroll in the same college to complete her final year that she missed to have her daughter. A lot of highly implausible made-up students end up either liking or disliking our out of step mom. Movie consists of predictably weird, and not at all believable interactions between all parties - meant to be humorous, but just sooo dumb. FF to the end and for some reason Christina Aguilera makes a cameo which seemed as out-of-place as the rest of the script. I've like her singing in the past, but her brief cameo song was a pointless disaster. This script would have made more sense if converted to a horror flick.

I am a devoted fan of Melissa McCarthy. She is naturally talented and can be hilarious in skits, movies and with no script at all in interviews. That said, I could not tolerate her parody of a typical upper middle class, middle aged Mom. I guess this was supposed to be the funny part of the entire film, as there are no real 'jokes' or physical comedy or sight gags. So that leaves the grating high-pitched, almost Cohen bros Fargo 'Marge' accent character that just annoyed me so much I had to shut the DVD off after about 40minutes. Awful. No redeeming qualities.

This movie was so frustrating! It's a simple and overused formula. I rented it because I like Melissa McCarthy but it's still seriously disappointing. I would have asked for my money back had I gone to see on the big screen. Insulting and just plain lame. This formula was well done with Rodney Dangerfield's Back To School.Anna Farris did a similar type movie with House Bunny, only a world Better and the story flowed.

This movie was full of old, stale, done a million times college cliches. The most disturbing part was the utter lack of any research to make the plot more realistic, very lazy writing. This writing duo should retire ASAP.!