Melissa Rauch
“THE BRONZE” My rating: C-
118 minutes | MPAA rating: R
I spent much of “The Bronze” wondering what drugs (or combination of drugs and alcohol) might make it as funny as it thinks it is.
This staggeringly raunchy (yet overwhelmingly morose) comedy from Melissa Rauch (a regular on TV’s “The Big Bang Theory,” she stars and wrote the screenplay with her husband, Winston Rauch) centers on Hope, a small town shrew who for more than a decade has been milking her limited fame as a bronze-medal-winning Olympic gymnast.
Hope retains the blonde bangs and ponytail that were her trademark as an adolescent athlete. She never goes out unless she’s wearing a red, white and blue star-spangled warmup suit to remind local residents that a giant walks among them.
She has her own designated parking space on Main Street. She gets free food at the local restaurant. For goods that cost money there’s the cash she steals from letters in the mailbag of her dad (Gary Cole), an employee of the U.S. Postal Service.
Hope is profane, hateful, conceited, mean-spirited, drunk, doped-up and entitled.
All that would be okay if she were also hysterically funny, but most of the laughs in this film either miss the mark or have such sharp edges that it’s like swallowing ground glass.
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