The Internship
The Internship
PG-13 | 07 June 2013 (USA)
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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.

Reviews
SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.
SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction
Quiet Muffin 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.
Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
qfredine You've seen these story beats a thousand times in a thousand scenarios. This movie brings nothing new to the table. There are several good jokes to fill in the generic "this happens here because it's just that part of the story" spots of the script, but by the last third of the film it feels like no effort was put into making anything interesting. For every one funny joke or concept there is one and a half cheesy moments or god awful extras. Not as bad as it could have been, but certainly far from good.
seveb-25179 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?
dierregi 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...
juneebuggy This was a very dumb movie, almost unbearable at times relying exclusively on the interaction and chemistry between Vince Vaughan and Owen Wilson (Wedding Crashers) to keep things going.The script is cliché-riddled, formulaic and basically just a long advertisement for Google. Yes I got a couple of laughs, Will Farrell's cameo as the bed salesman with the emo neck tattoo comes to mind but they were not worth the pain of sitting through 2 hours of idiotic dialogue and unoriginal scenes for.I will say that initially the story idea felt unique, following two recently unemployed salesman who land internships at Google and are forced to compete against overachieving college students for jobs at the tech giant. But the execution, with these two oldsters teaching the cool kids that there's more to life than computers i.e. getting drunk in strip bars wears thin.It also managed to feel very dated and very safe where the gags were concerned. And what was up with Vaughn and Wilson sharing a bed? Come on they're grown men. It was as if the writer (Vaughn) forgot that the characters were meant to be veteran salesmen (adults) and not still wedding crashers 9/30/15