Sunday, July 7, 2013
The Internship
Dir: Shawn Levy; Starring: Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Rose Byrne, Max Minghella.
The Internship plunges the comic dream team of 2005, Wedding Crashers's Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, into a fable of recession and redemption. They play two ageing salesmen who lose their jobs and apply for an internship at Google, in flailing competition with technologically astute twenty-somethings.
The pair are mostly endearing, and the film generates a few funny moments, mainly supplied by an energetically gross cameo from Will Ferrell as a bed-shop owner.
Yet the tone hovers uneasily between satire and sincerity, and it becomes achingly clear that the central romance is not between Wilson's character and Rose Byrne (playing a Google manager) but between the film-makers and their chosen search engine. Rarely has a company been treated with such wide-eyed adulation.
By the time I actually heard the word "googliness" – meaning a composite of all indefinable virtues – it had already stuck painfully in my craw.
Source : http://telegraph.feedsportal.com/c/32726/f/568414/s/2e4af79e/l/0L0Stelegraph0O0Cculture0Cfilm0Cfilmreviews0C10A1632840CThe0EInternship0Bhtml/story01.htm
