'The Internship' - Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson

[bam777]

Saw the movie last night and I personally really enjoyed it. Lots of laughs, pretty solid supporting characters and great cameos. And the chemistry between Vaughn and Wilson is still there and I gotta admit, while it's maybe not 'as good' as Wedding Crashers I'd still put it up there. Overall I left the theater having had a good time and I'd personally recommend it myself. I'm not sure how many comedies have released so far this year, but this one's my favorite yet. I'm sure This Is The End next week will blow it out of the water, though.

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by chris_sc77

O my!

I did like this headline though:
"Movie Review: The Internship Is a Comedy So Lazy, It Would Be Fired Immediately"

Yup Bilge Ebiri is a good writer.

[MikeScott]

Originally Posted by Britbuffguy

I predict it at #3, with like 14-ish million. I haven't heard any buzz on it. I have hard time thinking it will take down a PG-13 comedy staring the 'Wedding Crashers.'

I hope you were just predicting opening day .

Not to brag, but, told you so!

[HyperRealist]

[Jasonic]

Just saw it. It's enjoyable for Vaughn and Wilson and the comedy they provide, but the movie is indeed formulaic to the bone. 6/10

[Petra_Kalbrain]

This seems to say it all.

'The Internship' Poised To Be Biggest Comedy Of 2005 - YouTube

[whiteberry]

It's worth seeing just for the cameos from Will Ferrell and Rob Riggle. I suspect they had to edit quite a bit of stuff to get the PG 13 so we better get an unrated cut on the blu-ray.

As far as the criticism of it being a commercial for Google, give me a break. Google is the best of the best and doesn't need to advertise. The number of people wanting to work there far outnumbers the number of people actually hired and they have no problem getting the best and the brightest college graduates. Now if this was Yahoo featured in the movie, then I'd go along with it being a commercial for Yahoo since the company has been all but dead for a long time and no one really wants to work there.

[roguescribner]

Movie was fun, but forgettable. Stuck to the formula, but had enough laughs to make it enjoyable. Not realistic at all in how real people would act, but who cares. As long as it's funny.

3/5 stars

[jebhdb]

The wife and I watched this today and we both thought it was good but not great. I was also surprised at how much cursing there was for a PG-13 movie. Foul language doesn't bother me a bit, but if your sensitive to that or don't like your kids exposed to it you might want to approach this movie with caution. 3/5

[Dennis Nedry]

Originally Posted by Petra_Kalbrain

This seems to say it all.

'The Internship' Poised To Be Biggest Comedy Of 2005 - YouTube

Yep. Seems like people will settle for a bunch of dated jokes and stuff that might have been funny during the Bush Administration.

"I certainly won't be seeing that."

[Monarch_of_Media]

Saw this yesterday. Outside of Ferrell and John Goodman, the first hour of this movie is the closest I have ever come to walking out of a movie. That said however, the last half got a little better. I still would give it a **1/2 out of 5, so barely a pass.

[Show spoiler]Also there is a scene where Vince Vaughn comforts the 21 year old girl in his group by hugging her, calling her "beautiful", and saying she "was the whole package" and "any guy would be lucky to date her". It honestly felt like they contemplated going a Vince Vaughn/That girl romance path, and I was REALLY uncomfortable because of the age difference.

[Britbuffguy]

Originally Posted by Monarch_of_Media

Saw this yesterday. Outside of Ferrell and John Goodman, the first hour of this movie is the closest I have ever come to walking out of a movie. That said however, the last half got a little better. I still would give it a **1/2 out of 5, so barely a pass.

[Show spoiler]Also there is a scene where Vince Vaughn comforts the 21 year old girl in his group by hugging her, calling her "beautiful", and saying she "was the whole package" and "any guy would be lucky to date her". It honestly felt like they contemplated going a Vince Vaughn/That girl romance path, and I was REALLY uncomfortable because of the age difference.

[Show spoiler]I felt it was more like a father/daughter thing. They all treated him like the big brother almost. I knew exactly who she'd hook up with.

I saw this tonight and agree, it was good, not great. As a comedy, it was pretty bad, as the laughs seem to take 10 minutes between at times. The first half hour or so is almost all from the trailer.
Like the guy above me said, it gets better once the team begins to gel and get along. The whole Flashdance thing was cute.

My goodness about Rose Byrne. She is flat out an actress that just makes you fall in love with her no matter what. PERFECT!

I actually thought with his mere TWO scenes, Josh Gad stole this film.

It was light on laughs, but I still enjoyed the crap out of it. Major themes of having to start over with a new career later in life, and allowing yourself to finally start dating in your 30s were pretty big for me.

I'd say 3.5/5

[Abdrewes]

Big thumbs down for me. I'll post my review tomorrow...

How much did Google pitch in for this shameless plug?

[Britbuffguy]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

Big thumbs down for me. I'll post my review tomorrow...

How much did Google pitch in for this shameless plug?

I don't get all the 'I'm gonna hate on this movie cause it was about working for google crap.'

You sound like every critic out there. What does that have anything to do with the film???? It's almost as if people thought they weren't gonna name drop...when darn near the entire film takes places there.

[kallima]

Originally Posted by Britbuffguy

I don't get all the 'I'm gonna hate on this movie cause it was about working for google crap.'

You sound like every critic out there. What does that have anything to do with the film???? It's almost as if people thought they weren't gonna name drop...when darn near the entire film takes places there.

Yep, most of the reviews list that as their first gripe. Who cares, product placement happens ALL the time, not this prominently but the setting is an important part of the movie, and it revolves around Google.

This is the best comedy I've seen this year, maybe my reaction is high off the disappointment from Identity Thief and Hangover 3 but at least I laughed more than once! Also, I didn't see any previews so my chuckles weren't undermined by previous trailers for me.

And as far as the pop culture references being dated, it still made me laugh. I do have a soft spot for Vaughn and Wilson because their chemistry still works but to each their own.

[Abdrewes]

Ostensibly a story about forging human connection in the age of electronic dominance, it's ironic that The Internship comes off as cold and lifeless as a Terminator robot. Leaden by a script three rewrites away from pedestrian and Shawn Levy's directorial stamp of Hollywood hackwork, I longed for the warmly conventional blanket that was last month's Peeples, which thankfully wasn't smothered in Google product placement—the only hint of subtlety is found in the multiplicity of ways found to not only incorporate the Google logo, but the same hues of red, blue, green and yellow that compose it, into each and every dull frame. The Internship is a Google advertisement that happens to come in the 2.39:1 aspect ratio.

The first few scenes establish the type of middle-of-the-road PG-13 humor the audience will be subjected to for the remainder of the bloated 119 minute runtime. Watch salesmen Billy McMahon (Vince Vaughn) and Nick Campbell (Owen Wilson) sing along to Alanis Morissette's 1990's pop hit "Ironic" while getting into character to peddle off the latest "Chrono Shock" model. Their former client informs them that their business model is out of date and that few people buy watches anymore. The next morning at the closing warehouse, we get confirmation of this when their boss singles out that even their septuagenarian secretary checks the time on her smart phone.

Billy then springs the idea that they should apply for the Google internship program. In a stroke of fate, they are accepted and soon find themselves on the San Francisco campus. They are fish out of water in a sea of twenty-somethings who can code as fluently as they can write longhand. As per course, numerous jokes will be levied at their age and incompetence in front of a computer. Before the inevitable character turns, even their team mates join in on the foray.

Weighed down by Billy and Nick, the group—a charming multiracial mix of a white scrawny gangster imitator (Josh Brener), a smart aleck (Dylan O'Brien), a once homeschooled Filipino whom was breast fed well into his school years (Tobit Raphael), and an Indian American girl putting up a floozy, street smart front (Tiya Sircar, in a very like-able turn)—must accrue enough points from challenges, both sport and tech related, to secure a spot in the internship program which will most likely lead to a full time position.

The competition naturally gives way to an endless stream of pop culture references and broad physical comedy (seriously, a kick in the groin is not funny anymore). The culmination of which are two set pieces that arrive in the second act: a mock quidditch match coupled with Inception and Pirates of the Carribean clone music (again, the uniforms colored the same hue as the letters of the Google logo). Flaccid montages give way to phony uplift too thinly sketched to be effective. In tune with the two dimensional character arcs and barefaced product placement, every impersonal frame might as well have been orchestrated by beings who process information in zeroes and ones.

Shawn Levy's woefully inept multi camera shooting style provides a TV sitcom level visual flatness. Not one frame seems considered. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that on the final day of shooting, Levy and company dumped the digital files (footage) on the desk of an anonymous editor before placating their chagrin at the nearest pub.

½

[King Troll]

So I just got out of watching this with my brothers and I thought it was OK. Definitely not as funny as it could of been. The entire strip club scene was pretty funny though.

2.5/5

[Abdrewes]

Originally Posted by King Troll

So I just got out of watching this with my brothers and I thought it was OK. Definitely not as funny as it could of been. The entire strip club scene was pretty funny though.

2.5/5

I definitely thought Will Ferrel's bit role east the funniest thing in the film.

[King Troll]

Originally Posted by Abdrewes

I definitely thought Will Ferrel's bit role east the funniest thing in the film.

Not as great as chad and his meatloaf

[MikeScott]

I thought it was a cute movie. I'd give it a solid B. I love me some Dylan O'Brien .