The Internship (2013)

People are voting emotionally.

As Good As It Gets

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Two dinosaur salesmen (Vince Vaughn/ Owen Wilson) find themselves as interns at Google. They are fish out of water as they have to deal with the youth and terminology of the tech world. They are divided into teams with our duo on the misfit team which leads to formulaic results.This is a fun film which doesn't offend. The humor is not overwhelmingly laugh out loud, by rather tritely funny. That is not to say it is bad, but simply lacks originality.Worth a view. Makes for a good rental.Parental Guide rated version: 2 f-bombs, No sex or nudity. Strip club scene.

I love to watch Garret Dillahunt and Meryl Streep because they can sell any role. With other people I just want to see them do what they do. How much range have we gotten from Clint Eastwood or Mike Myers? Well, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson give us exactly what we've come to expect from these guys. So Google gets a plug here, do you think we live in the Star Trek universe? Capitalism, it's a thing. Look it up. It's not like this is a first in movies, for 40 years the '77 Trans Am has been my dream car. This movie has great eye candy, outstanding naked eye candy, a good cast AND true to Google, none of the funny you came looking for is ad-free. It's basically a feel-good comedy. The only surprise in this movie is that these two clowns actually manage to deliver on the feel-good aspect. The Internship is a pretty good flick that I can watch every 2 - 3 years.

In this sad excuse for a movie Wilson and Vaughn are two unemployed salesmen who manage to get an internship at Google. The comedic element should be that two 40 something who know nothing about technology can compete with kids born with a smartphone in their hands, thanks to their life experience .Unfortunately, the paper thin plot is further watered down by the endless speeches (mostly monologues) delivered by Wilson and Vaughn. They talk so much, half way through the movie I just wanted them to shut up and give some space to the other characters - as stereotyped as they are.Vaughn wrote the script and as it often happens in these cases, he decided to give himself and Wilson lots of long, boring, pseudo-deep speeches. I never notice how annoying an actor he can be when given so much space. Unrestrainable talkative, arrogant and loud.A chemistry-free love story is added to the plot, with some cringe-inducing scenes such as the Rose Byrne character asking Wilson during their first date to behave obnoxiously and he obliging.The movie does not work even as a two-hour long ad for Google. In fact, it seems to last way longer. I could not believe how long it dragged on. Luckily I watched it on TV and I let it play until the end, only because somebody mentioned that the end credits are the best part of the movie - considering how bad is the movie, it is still not much...

Internship (2013): Dir: Shawn Levy / Cast: Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Rose Byrne, Max Minghella, Josh Gad: Wedding Crashers is one of the best comedies of the 2000's. How unfortunate that it is followed up with this boring laughless tripe about connection. While Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson were witty and hysterical in the previous film, here they are bland. They play a couple of salesmen who sell watches until they are let go when it is figured that the I-Phone has replaced watches. On a fluke they decide to apply as interns at Google. While the premise has potential it is followed up with formula writing and characters who make up every stereotype and moron that they could conjure up. Rose Byrne catches Wilson's eye and immediately comes off as a tight ass with a stick wedged up her crack until he predictably breaks the barrier. Max Minghella plays an over the top bully competitor who desires the job prospects of Google and will sabotage when opportunity presents itself. It is unfortunate that he went from The Social Network to this. Vaughn and Wilson are placed in a group with imbeciles. We have the uptight jerk whom they try to befriend. We have the virgin female. We have Lyle who talks in the third person because he is an irritating peon. A scene at a strip club where he gets the stripper is embarrassing with its idiotic bar fight. The biggest idiot discusses his abusive mother and pulls his eye brows out. After being part of this travesty, he will likely be pulling his hair out. The theme of technology and age is strong but the screenplay is so pathetic that it is enough to make viewers pull their eye brows out. Score: 4 / 10