Director: Shawn Levy
Writers: Vince Vaughn, Jared Stern
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Max Minghella
This film is honestly rather infuriating. Imagine an advert
for Google before a YouTube video except you can’t skip this advert and the
video is the rest of your life. The film is completely pointless and it makes
me want to jam my palm so far into my face, it creates a singularity.
Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn have lost their jobs and so decide to attempt to get a job at Google through an internship. Stupidity and laughing at naivety ensues.
In terms of the things that I enjoyed in this movie, they are pretty scarce. Easily the best part of the film is Wilson and Vaughn. They are the only competent comedians given any reasonable screen time. They play salesmen and watching them suck up to their clients is really entertaining and probably the closest thing to original in the entire film.
That’s about it. I can’t really think of anything that impressed me in this film. The characters made my skin crawl. The film’s antagonist is some random English super-sized hate machine. I can’t even describe how poorly some of his lines were delivered. They weren’t bland lines, they had wings but Max Minghella just shot them down like the stereotypical Englishman he is. At one point he says something to do with discrimination based upon how people look with a pretty funny line but somehow it wasn’t funny. I am unsure how he even did it.
This film’s existence helps me realise my annoyance with a lot of supercilious filmgoers these days. You can’t live for very long without someone with extreme self-importance complaining about how formulaic superhero films are. This is easily one of the most remade movies of all time. Two men are put into a foreign situation. You only need to look to 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street, Wedding Crashers, Grown Ups (you have twice the men then), Jack and Jill or That’s My Boy. For someone to be upset to the point of mentioning the rehashing of superhero films and to not notice this formula’s consistently underwhelming writing is a crime. If you didn’t understand that paragraph… THIS FILM DOES NOTHING NEW!!!
Wilson and Vaughn provide some decent moments of comic relief during a task akin to breaking ones own cheekbone with a small hammer and then dying. I cringed at how unbelievable their stupidity was and I felt more hatred towards the antagonist’s actor than their character.
The Internship receives a: 4/10
Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn have lost their jobs and so decide to attempt to get a job at Google through an internship. Stupidity and laughing at naivety ensues.
In terms of the things that I enjoyed in this movie, they are pretty scarce. Easily the best part of the film is Wilson and Vaughn. They are the only competent comedians given any reasonable screen time. They play salesmen and watching them suck up to their clients is really entertaining and probably the closest thing to original in the entire film.
That’s about it. I can’t really think of anything that impressed me in this film. The characters made my skin crawl. The film’s antagonist is some random English super-sized hate machine. I can’t even describe how poorly some of his lines were delivered. They weren’t bland lines, they had wings but Max Minghella just shot them down like the stereotypical Englishman he is. At one point he says something to do with discrimination based upon how people look with a pretty funny line but somehow it wasn’t funny. I am unsure how he even did it.
This film’s existence helps me realise my annoyance with a lot of supercilious filmgoers these days. You can’t live for very long without someone with extreme self-importance complaining about how formulaic superhero films are. This is easily one of the most remade movies of all time. Two men are put into a foreign situation. You only need to look to 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street, Wedding Crashers, Grown Ups (you have twice the men then), Jack and Jill or That’s My Boy. For someone to be upset to the point of mentioning the rehashing of superhero films and to not notice this formula’s consistently underwhelming writing is a crime. If you didn’t understand that paragraph… THIS FILM DOES NOTHING NEW!!!
Wilson and Vaughn provide some decent moments of comic relief during a task akin to breaking ones own cheekbone with a small hammer and then dying. I cringed at how unbelievable their stupidity was and I felt more hatred towards the antagonist’s actor than their character.
The Internship receives a: 4/10
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