Melissa McCarthy's Life of the Party Is Unexpectedly Delightful

It's like I Feel Pretty, except good!by Elinor JonesThe past few years, Melissa McCarthy has fallen into a rut of playing brash, silly characters with oversized glasses and bad hair. Her movies are always serviceable, because she’s great, but they're never groundbreaking. So that's pretty much all I expected from Life of the Party. But Life of the Party is more than serviceable—it’s wonderful!McCarthy plays Deanna, the fortysomething mom of a college senior, and when her husban