Film: A comedy with a weak Identity

Reviewed: Identity Thief

**Directed by Seth Gordon**

**Nationwide, cert 15A**

**Rating:** 2/5

Considering that it stars two likeable comedy stalwarts, the fearless Melissa McCarthy and masterful straight-man Jason Bateman, and is directed by Bateman's Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon, audiences might have expected more from Identity Thief than crude gags, lazy cultural stereotypes and hackneyed plotting.

Resplendent in garish make-up and lurid polystyrene, McCarthy plays a Florida-based fraudster whose con involves extracting key ...