The Internship

I can’t really blame Vince Vaughn for getting fat, old and lazy; it’s happens to the best of us. If I had some success in Hollywood, was able to move back to my hometown Chicago to live like a king, and somehow convinced Jennifer Aniston to date me; I too would eat and drink myself silly until I looked like Dom Deluise in History of the World Part 1. There would be slave girls sloppily feeding me grapes as I lay on my back breathing heavily in my stain covered toga. Now I’m 90% sure that I’ve used that joke on this blog before but if Vince Vaughn can recycle his “Hey, let’s get drunk and make some bad decisions” joke in EVERY movie he makes; then I can too!

With his latest “effort” he tries to recreate the magic that he had with Owen Wilson in Wedding Crashers. Here they play the role of two old and struggling salesmen who find out that their company is no longer in business while at dinner with a client. As they struggle to find real jobs, Vaughn decides that this is their one opportunity to recharge their lives and give it some purpose by doing something they actually care about.  So he convinces Owen that they should try and become interns at Google. Owen cautiously agrees and off they go to northern California to compete with about a hundred 20 year old’s for the same job.

And here is where the flood of cliché’s comes roaring at you. As you would expect, no one wants to team up with them, so they are left with a bunch of rejects to be a part of their group.  This team of misfits includes an angry outcast , an abused Chinese boy, a cute, nerdy, and possibly promiscuous Indian girl, and the geeky team lead who already has a job at Google. All that’s missing is the big black cafeteria lady who yells the entire time with her hand on her hip. But as you would expect, they initially don’t get along because of all of their differences and this causes them to fall behind the other groups who are all in a competition to be guaranteed permanent jobs at the company.

Our heroes are up against all odds : the intern director who apparently hates them, a pompous British kid and his group who hate them, and their age which has them completely out of touch with technology and social media. They must however find a way to get over their differences and get along so that they can shock everyone and ultimately win the job. The problem is, you see every scene coming 30 minutes before it actually happens because you have seen this movie about a thousand times before.With that said, there are some funny moments in it that you haven’t already seen in the trailers.

Vince Vaughn’s idea for a new app as well as all of his horrible references to the 80’s further show how much of a dinosaur he and Owen were. Then there was the Quittage match with the geeky team lead attempting to explain the rules to them. And to be honest, I didn’t recognize a single word he said in that 2 minute span. And what buddy movie isn’t complete without a trip to the strip club? I’ll let you use your imagination as to what took place there. I won’t even waste time writing about the Owen Wilson’s love interest in Rose Byrne, who thankfully doesn’t look anywhere near as old in this as she did in The Place Beyond The Pines.

This movie isn’t awful but you’ve already seen it's best jokes in the trailer and the ending is about as predictable as Kim Kardashian getting impregnated by Kanye West was. Come on man, as ugly as he is, you knew it was just a matter of time before he “forgot” to put on a condom. He locked that down with the quickness and props to him for doing so. This movie is WEAK and you should wait for Redbox.