The
Internship
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson star as Billy and Nick – two
high end watch salesmen who lose their jobs when the company shuts
down. Left with mounting bills, and the desire to do something better
with their lives, Billy is inspired to apply for an internship with
Google. Why not get into a job and a field with a future?
They aren’t the typical Google interns, and barely know
anything about the Internet and apps, but Billy and Nick think they can
make this one work, even when they are teamed up with a group of
outcastes much younger and smarter than them.
Are Billy and Nick Google material?
Written by Vaughn and Jared Stern, The
Internship kind of hits all of
the typical notes you expect, and only succeeds in making us laugh and
care because Vaughn and Wilson are in it.
All of the clichés and ingredients in the formula are here.
They are on the team of underdogs who have no chance of winning the
jobs, but find inspiration in teamwork and friendship.
Nick thinks he has found true love with the sexy, but stern Google exec
(Rose Byrne) who is cold as ice and needs his sexy charms to melt her
(so the Butterscotch Stallion rides again).
There’s an overachieving bully (Max Minghella) who makes all
of us hate him to the core.
And, we get to watch some competition swinging the gang between the
thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.
Yet, some stuff just isn’t plausible enough. As written by
Jared Stern and co-writer Vaughn, Nick and Billy are supposed to be
completely out of touch with modern technology, but they
aren’t old enough to be this out of touch. I can believe they
don’t know how to write code for an app, but some of the
jargon and ideas are universal, even for people much older than these
two.
Sure, it is hilarious to watch Billy spouting out 80’s
nostalgia and references, but the guy was adept enough to be on his
laptop using Google early in the movie, so I don’t think he
can be as helpless and behind the times as they want us to believe.
However, Vaughn and Wilson do what they do best to make us laugh.
Vaughn is talking a mile a minute like a 5-year old who drank 3 diet
cokes, ate a pound of chocolate, and washed it all down with a Red Bull
(and we love him for it, so we roll with it).
Wilson plays the laid back, earnest romantic who plays the amused
straight guy to Vaughn (why can’t Vaughn’s
character find love? Frankenstein needs love, too)
Sadly, the movie comes to a sputtering conclusion as the big, shocking,
rousing ending just isn’t big enough, rousing enough or crazy
enough to really befit what it should have been. Like the rest of The
Internship, it’s not
memorable. It’s just OK enough.
The
Internship is rated PG-13 for sexuality, some crude humor, partying and
language.
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