Apparently next year is dedicating itself to some rude-crude-dudettes-with-attitude as this double pair of trailers for the long-gestating Melissa McCarthy vehicle The Boss and Melissa Rauch’s (The Big Bang Theory) film The Bronze were just released. Actually considering 2015 is closing out the year with the Tina Fey/Amy Poehler movie Sisters, it’s not that surprising that R-rated female-led comedies are once again on the rise. (That’s good).

So the movie is like an extreme mashup of Troop Beverley Hills and the Martha Stewart scandal with a dash of Jane Fonda and Tammy Faye Messner on crack. The Boss teams up McCarthy with her real-life husband Ben Falcone (once again directing and acting in the film) and collaborator Steve Mallory who all had a hand in writing the script. While I give credit to the movie actually having a decent plot, this has shades of that kind of character that McCarthy has infamously played in Identity Thief and Tammy, two of the most insufferable movies I’ve ever sat through. But I have to admit that at least this character, while abrasive, crass, vulgar, and mean, does not seem to be flat out stupid and knows how to bathe and dress herself. The added addition of Kristen Bell playing her straight man and the idea of the brutal underground world of girl scout cookie sells hopefully will keep this McCarthy movie on the good side of her Spy streak.

Speaking of abrasive, crass, vulgar, and mean:

Now I fell out with Big Bang Theory a while ago but when I stopped watching was when Melissa Rauch and Mayim Bialk were promoted to regulars and given substantial parts. To my dismay, from what I’ve seen since then, boy has that show done a great disservice to Rauch; turning the once sweet and bubbly Bernadette into a shrill harpy for (poor) Simon Helberg’s Howard to play whiny man-child husband with. So here is a movie that has her front in center going so far against the type that I want this film to be successful just for her. She really sells it right off the bat with her scene with Sebastian Stan. Also there’s Thomas Middleditch and Gary Cole, who are also great in their current respective HBO shows. I like how The Bronze comes off as an anti-Foxcatcher in every way; from obvious things like the gender swap to the fact that it’s protagonist also has a very warped perception of what it means to be an Olympian and how that has made her insanely evil.

I find it interesting how both of these comedies, and ones like it (Young Adult even if that’s not actually a comedy), are about one woman who has so much anger and so much to show the world but just goes about it the wrong way. I dig it, women are under-represented in movies, particularly comedies, so when they do get their chance them girls come out swinging. I did also notice with these two trailers is that trend that I am not so much of a fan of: this person obnoxiously swears non-stop in exchange for an actual joke. I* am not a opposed to swearing, but cussing incessantly is only so funny, those words in of themselves are not punchlines. You gotta balance the swearing with other forms of comedy otherwise it’s just swearing to swear and the writing immediately comes across as immature. I don’t think either movie will suffer greatly from this, but it is something I notice more in female-comedies; once again going back to that idea that they have to be even brassier than male-led comedies, which I understand, but find unnecessary.

Movies, learn something from the master Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Team VEEP:

*Riley Sailer/SailorPancakes who loves pancakes and does in fact have a sailor-mouth.