Late Night

Rating

C+ (79/100)

Three words

Average, Comedy?, Blatant

Brief Review

After years of falling ratings, a once great female late night show host hires her first female writer to help mix up her staff and revive her career. Not that Late Night was necessarily a bad movie, it was just not what I expected. I went in with the expectation to laugh a lot, but it is more drama than pure comedy. I don’t remember any laugh out loud moments, although there were some funny lines. The plot was better than I had expected and it does better as a drama than a comedy, although it still isn’t an amazing drama. What really hurt this movie for me is how blatantly the movie plays up the diversity aspect of it. It makes no bones about what its agenda is. Mindy Kaling is solely a diversity hire because she is an Indian women which is funny at first, but they push this throughout the entire movie. Instead of making it subtle and funny with jokes here and there, they opted to punch you in the face with it over and over again. I thought it actually detracted from what would have been a good message. I just wish I knew that this wasn’t going to be a true comedy and I think I would have enjoyed it more. Overall Late Night was fine and I didn’t mind watching it, but I won’t be watching it again.