The Internship (2013)
Rating- 12a
Running Time- 1 hour 59 minutes
Directed by- Shawn Levy
Written by- Vince Vaughan and Jared Stern
The Internship. More like The Internshit. I know what you’re thinking: That was a terrible, terrible pun but rather unfortunately that was by far funnier than anything in this film. That speaks volumes for a film that was billed as and tried so hard to be a comedy.
The Internship. More like The Internshit. I know what you’re thinking: That was a terrible, terrible pun but rather unfortunately that was by far funnier than anything in this film. That speaks volumes for a film that was billed as and tried so hard to be a comedy.
The film started off like any comedy of this type would: poorly. The difference between this and most of its contemporaries is that this failed to get any better. The entire story of the film became obvious from very early on which a lot of the time isn’t necessarily a bad thing particularly with regards to a comedy movie but considering how poor the film promised to be one could only hope that there was a huge surprise around the corner. There wasn’t. The film continued as I hoped it wouldn’t but expected it would which resulted in me letting out an audible cheer when the film finally finished.
The one slightly redeeming quality was the acting of the two main stars – Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughan. They somehow managed to make the central protagonists somewhat likeable which, believe me, was no easy task. I almost felt sorry for them; their efforts were always going to be futile with the awful quality of writing they were working with. But that feeling was halved when the end credits began and I saw that Vaughan himself co-wrote the film; he dug the whole that he was trying to escape from. With the sympathy I had briefly felt now 50% gone I had the chance to evaluate the acting of the film overall and it’s more bad news. Pretty much every character was portrayed with some of the most over-the-top acting I have ever seen. I have often heard people say that a particular character is ‘punchable’ meaning that they are so annoying that you physically want to hit them in the face and apart from Wilson and Vaughan (and the cameo performance of John Goodman) I would attribute this tag to every character in the movie. Remember when I started this paragraph stating that this was the ‘redeeming quality’ of the movie? The pure negativity of the words that followed should have made you realise how lowly I rate this film. If my defence of a film is almost completely derogatory to said film then it probably tells you that the movie is pretty awful.
Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised. I had heard nothing but bad things about this film. Bu there is one thing I would like to put straight: this film isn’t just a ‘two hour advert for Google’. I had heard this a lot before watching the film and I can confirm that this is completely untrue, the film is one minute short of the two hour mark.
So in conclusion, in case you didn’t catch my drift, you should definitely see this movie. It’s a decision that you definitely won’t regret, it’s an instant classic. Whoops. I inserted the conclusion for a different film by mistake. But don’t worry if you insert each individual word from this summary into an opposite dictionary* you will get my real feeling towards this film. Actually, I’ll do it for you…
Inappropriately out commencement, out dislike I did release your guide, I shouldn’t doubtfully be blind that…
Alright, forget that. The film is bad. That’s all you need to know.
*If you don't know how to access an opposite dictionary just do a quick Google search and you should find one...
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| Final Rating. Two Stars. |
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