The Internship
Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.
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- Cast:
- Vince Vaughn , Owen Wilson , Rose Byrne , Aasif Mandvi , Max Minghella , Josh Brener , Dylan O'Brien
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One of my all time favorites.
Best movie ever!
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
This movie is fun, honestly the people reviewing otherwise, remove the oversized stick from your tight arse. It's a great fun, sit with the family and understand the modern world movie with a smile on your face!!
Any comedy film with more than one or two montage sequences, backed by a familiar or quirky pieces of pop music, sets off an alarm in my head.It's a sure sign of a lazy script that hasn't been worked through properly. The writer can't think of decent dialogue to move the plot or characters from A to B and so resorts to a montage to produce a "magical" transformation in the characters point of view.I like Vince Vaughns shtick, but unfortunately far too many of his movies resort to this shallow technique to move the plot along, instead of spending a bit more time and working out how to tell the story properly.I may be wrong, but I think Wedding Crashers had only one major montage I can recall, but in films like this and "Delivery Man" the whole second half of the film seems to consist of them.I've seen "Swingers" and "Made", so I know you can do better Vince, so please try harder in future!PS Is going to a titty bar, where people are friendly to anyone as long as they get paid, really the answer to overcoming social awkwardness?
It was a cool summers morning. The air was dry and the drinks were cold. I stumbled into the living room to find my brother bubbling with optimism for Vince Vaughan & Owen Wilson's latest comedy "The Internship". I decided to watch with him, as I had previously hugely enjoyed Wedding Crashers, the duo's previous effort. 90 minutes of tired jokes, shameless clichés and god awful product placement (Google is so fun!!), it seemed the season was suddenly an unforgiving winter. To be concise; NONE of the jokes hit home, the plot was incredibly predictable and every character was either face-meltingly boring or just unlikable. The villain is apparent through his first line of murky dialogue (and is, of course British ) and bendy nose's love interest is shoehorned in for filler bullshit.To conclude, while in no way was this were the performances in this film terrible, nor the direction or script; if you enjoy a retread of Wedding Crashers coated in faeces with 1/6 the laughs and Google as the protagonist, fair play to you. I just cannot remember a film which bored me more in my existence. Plus Will Ferrell's cameo does not hold a candle to the aforementioned Wedding Crashers. Hugely disappointing. 2/10
It was a Wednesday when I saw The Internship. No wait! I think it was a Thursday. I remember it was close to the end of the week. For movies on either end of the scale – really good or really bad – my memory is always crystal clear about the time and the place. The Internship ebbs so firmly in the middle that I felt nothing. I strain now to remember anything about it. The only thing that I am sure about is that for one hundred and fifty nine minutes, I sat in front of this movie staring into its colorful maw with a feeling that could only be described as baleful indifference.The Internship had no effect on me. None. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Zero. Bupkis. It's a comedy. There are people on the screen. They say things in a humorous way in the midst of a humorous situation. It has the pieces that resemble a comedy and yet I could not care less about anything happening on the screen. Not that I carried a cup of apathy into the screening with me, heaven's no. It's just that I was ready to be entertained and the movie was giving me nothing. It's not the worst comedy I've ever seen. There were moments when I kind of smiled and I admit that some scenes contained a measure of comic energy.The movie stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson who have been funny together before in movies like Wedding Crashers and Starsky and Hutch. They have a nice rapport with each other and a natural ease on the screen. They bring some of that to The Internship. Vaughn and Wilson play Billy and Nick respectively, two old friends who have made a living selling designer watches for 20 years. Then one day, their boss tells them that they're out of a job because people don't buy watches anymore – they get everything they need by looking at their cell phones. Out of work, they become desperate to get back in the job pool. Nick goes to work in a mattress store and Billy gets the idea to join the internship program at Google despite the fact that they know virtually nothing about computers. He encourages his buddy to quit the mattress store and go with him.At Google, they meet the stuffy, hate-spewing leader of the program who reminds the new recruits – who are called Noogles and forced to wear propeller beanies – that they are all destined to fail. Billy and Nick see through his B.S. and set out to turn the Google think tank into a fully functioning frat house.That's it. That's the movie. The rest is a series of gags and set pieces in which Billy and Nick upset the establishment, have parties, take the other interns to a strip club, and get under the skin of the project leader who, naturally, wants to sabotage their chances.Again, I watched all of this with bored indifference. None of it stuck. I strain now to remember anything about it. If you see it today, you'll be bored too. Tomorrow you won't remember the title. Two days from now you won't remember the plot. A year from now you won't remember having seen it at all. I'm bored just writing about it.