Thursday 24 April 2014

The Internship (2013) 8/10

Starring : Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Rose Byrne
Director : Shawn Levy
Running Time : 126 mins

When Billy McMahon (Vaughn) and Nick Campbell (Wilson) discover that the sales company they work for has closed down, they find themselves thrown back into the job market whilst in their forties. So Billy comes up with the idea of faking college qualifications and applying for an internship at Google – a long-shot, but worth a try. When they are accepted on the internship, they receive a rude awakening of how unfair and unjust the life of as college graduate can be.

This is an old school comedy that works reasonably well considering just how long it is. Vaughn and Wilson, as usual, make a fun team, and the supporting cats are great as the Google nerds. The moral to the story feels a little too late for my liking, and there should have been some earlier notice of the wrong doings of the other teams – they still could have kept the baddies in the lead – but, if you ignore all the swearing, this is an accessible and funny comedy that delivers.

You’ll like this if you liked : Accepted


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