The Internship (2013)
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 154
Fresh: 54 | Rotten: 100
The Internship weighs down Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson's comic charisma with a formulaic script and padded running time that leans heavily on its stars' easygoing interplay.
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 30
The Internship weighs down Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson's comic charisma with a formulaic script and padded running time that leans heavily on its stars' easygoing interplay.
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Movie Info
Billy (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Owen Wilson) are salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world. Trying to prove they are not obsolete, they defy the odds by talking their way into a coveted internship at Google, along with a battalion of brilliant college students. But, gaining entrance to this utopia is only half the battle. Now they must compete with a group of the nation's most elite, tech-savvy geniuses to prove that necessity really is the mother of re-invention. (c) Fox
Cast
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Vince Vaughn
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Owen Wilson
Nick Campbell -
Josh Gad
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Dylan O'Brien
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Max Minghella
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Tiya Sircar
Neha Patel -
Rose Byrne
Dana Sims -
Josh Brener
Lyle Spaulding -
Tobit Raphael
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All Critics (154) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (54) | Rotten (100) | DVD (1)
Similar to Eddie Murphy's hard right turn from daring and profane comedy to family-friendly romps, Vaughn and Wilson have gone all soft and gooey here.
Top CriticIt's a testament to the duo's jazzy comic chemistry that they wring some laughs from this dated, frankly sinister premise.
There are plenty of films out there competing for your money ... 'The Internship' doesn't even deserve a part-time gig ...
A pleasant collection of mild laughs.
Today's weather forecast in Mountain View? Giddy with a chance of delirious.
The Internship just might be the saddest movie of 2013. That few will realize this makes it even sadder.
O mais caro vídeo institucional já produzido.
...in a very funny bit of salesmanship (what else?), our heroes talk their way into trying out for the gig, and the rest becomes a cornball and, at times, charming piece of fluff.
The Internship is ultimately as lazy and pointless (and overlong) a comedy that one can easily recall...
The comic business is only fitfully amusing. How many times do we need to hear Nick say 'on the line' instead of 'online'?
A by-the-numbers bromantic comedy that is essentially a feature-length advert for Google, The Internship uses the weapons-grade charm of Wilson and Vaughn to spout a corporate message.
There are bad movies, and then there are movies whose success would bode ill for cinema's future. The Internship is the latter.
Getting explicit sponsorship from Google is one thing; acting as an extended ad for Silicon Valley's finest strip joint does seem a bit seedy.
Alongside the film's increasingly irritating 'Googliness', The Internship is as silver-tongued and soulless as the rhetoric it appears to peddle.
This Wedding Crashers reunion has enough snappy dialog to keep us laughing even if the film itself feels like little more than a two-hour Google advert.
Agreeably topical, intermittently funny, occasionally moving... and arguably the biggest product placement plug of all time ...
A laboured, mawkish plug for Google.
Error Code 404: Laughs Not Found.
Not funny and very predictable.
The comedy of scam and flim-flam is very funny for 20 minutes. After that the script is bent like chair bamboo towards the kind of furniture film-goers are presumed to want for their moral and emotional comfort.
Enjoyable, frequently funny comedy enlivened by winning comic performances from Vaughn and Wilson and a strong support cast ...
Almost nothing in the second half of the film is exactly funny, but consistent geniality counts for a fair bit.
This will date rather badly, and possibly very quickly.
If you can ignore the eulogising of Google as a pinnacle of corporate altruism, there's fun to be had ...
It's precisely the type of film the critics hate. Ignore them, yahoo'd be a fool to miss it.
Audience Reviews for The Internship
Super Reviewer
The story follows two middle aged blokes who become unemployed so they try their luck in an internship programme with Google. The fact these guys are clearly out of place and ten times older than everyone within this programme doesn't phase them as they go for broke to try and gain full time employment. Do they achieve their goal?? well that's the million dollar question isn't...yes they do, of course they do, this film is the most cliched predictable piece of crud I've seen in a long time. Oh yeah spoiler...ah whatever.
Google have really scored here, they have managed to get themselves a two hour in your face promotional campaign that has their company name in virtually every scene. If you didn't know about Google before you sure as hell do now, I think the word 'Google' must have been used a gazillion times.
There is literately nothing to laugh at in this entire film, everything you see is just a tired rehash from every other Vaughn/Wilson comedy. The two leads play exactly the same type of characters we've seen over and over again which they do well sure but its just soooooooo old now. The rest of the cast are a bunch of unknown kids that you don't give a crap about, couldn't care a less whether they get these jobs or not...even though we know damn well they will.
I'm not even sure what level this film is aimed at. At first I thought it was a gentle comedy for all ages with nothing threatening at all, no bad language or toilet humour etc...Then slap bang in the middle there is a sequence within a strip club with full on boobies and ass action that is most definitely adults only!. Its quite a departure from the rest of the film which is a light hearted boring wet mess.
Basically you've seen this film before, the plot is completely predictable right from the start, no surprises. The characters are cliched and unoriginal, every turning point in the film is unexciting, generic and unoriginal, Wilson still has that stupid soppy hairstyle, its not funny, its not entertaining, its just a sneaky corporate recruitment video. Come work for Google and have all the fun and success that Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn had in the coolest working environment ever!...(fun, success and cool working environment not guaranteed).
Super Reviewer
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- Billy McMahon: Professor Xavier is a total dick.
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- Nick Campbell: Googliness!
Discussion Forum
| Topic | Last Post | Replies |
|---|---|---|
| Guess the tomato meter! | 44 days ago | 58 |
| Why does every damn comedy get SMASHED on Fucking Rotten Tomatoes. | 3 months ago | 19 |
| Looks like one big Google commercial. | 4 months ago | 15 |
| This will suck | 4 months ago | 10 |
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