The Internship (2013)
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Critics Consensus: 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.
Critics Consensus: 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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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- Rating:
- PG-13 (for sexuality, some crude humor, partying and language)
- Genre:
- Drama , Comedy
- Directed By:
- Shawn Levy
- Written By:
- Vince Vaughn , Jared Stern
- In Theaters:
- Jun 7, 2013 Wide
- On DVD:
- Oct 22, 2013
- US Box Office:
- $44.7M
Cast
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Owen Wilson
as Nick Campbell -
Vince Vaughn
as Billy McMahon -
Dylan O'Brien
as Stuart -
Max Minghella
as Graham
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Critic Reviews for The Internship
All Critics (157) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (54) | Rotten (103) | DVD (2)
You don't need a heart to like this movie. You need an MBA.
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.
It'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 ...
Like many an intern, this sweet, negligible comedy, starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as Google's oldest interns, doesn't live up to its potential.
One of those movies that milks its stars' inherent charisma for as long as it can, but it does so mainly because it has little else.
It isn't really a movie about friendship or new beginnings - it's a movie about selling Google.
'The Internship' isn't as funny or exuberant as 'Wedding Crashers' and the plot is formulaic, but as lightweight entertainment goes it's . . . well, light and entertaining.
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...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.
Audience Reviews for The Internship
Writing mean things about actors is not something I readily enjoy, or hop into when dissecting bad films, but I have to say that watching Vince Vaughan and Owen Wilson play the same two characters for the trillionth time makes my empathy wear thin. They meander through idiotic dialogue and formulaic scenes with the same cruddy performances that they've been turning out since "Wedding Crashers." I will say that the script has a fairly original concept, but in execution it's simply a ginormous advertisement for Google. Google is shown as this untouchable, unattainable place where dreams come true and intellectuals thrive, which feels so fake and unwarranted. It's about as ego stroking as the Jobs biopic, and just as subtle. Still, there is a little bit of that same Wilson-Vaughan charm embedded in this film, though it's difficult to see it through the needless strip club scene, the "quirks" of the side characters, and the pandering to Google. If there's anything positive to be said it would be that this film is very light, and the message is that you can attain anything if you work at it, even if you don't think you're smart enough.
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It's fair to say I'm not Shawn Levy's biggest fan, Date Night being the only of his films I enjoyed. I loved Vince Vaughn in his Swingers years but ever since then he's played the same character and Owen Wilson has also lost his way somewhat and is only really good in Wes Anderson movies these days. So, it was nice to see that actually everyone was on good form. Vaughn and Wilson play off each other so much more naturally since the painfully overrated Wedding Crashers and I think this is due to their continuing off camera friendship. The idea is great, even though it verges between being charmless Google advertising to 'Are you sure google want to be associated with this?' territory. When it's good it's good, when it's bad, it's awful. Some of the characters are dreadful and the story-line is up and down like a cookie on a porn site (or so I've heard). Everything good about the message is ruined by either a pointless strip club scene, a man with sexual OAP tendencies or by a Will Ferrell cameo. It started so well, then sank back into the sort of garbage I first feared it would be.
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Some of the jokes actually hit their mark, but overall The Internship is so cliche-ridden and unimaginative that nobody wins. Not even Google.
MoreSuper Reviewer
Funny, funny stuff. It's been quite awhile since I have heartily laughed while watching a Vince Vaughn film...but this one did it for me. There is something that really works when Vaughn and Wilson do movies together. The chemistry just works so well, and is so engaging and interesting. This fun movie has a strong message about the advantages of being a bit older, and perhaps a little less techy. With experience comes knowledge, in my book. Plus, seeing the inside of a Google establishment (which in my dreams is accurate), was a whole lot of fun!!
MoreSuper Reviewer
The Internship Quotes
- Nick Campbell:
- Your reboot speed is amazing.
- Nick Campbell:
- Imagine the greatest amusement park you went to as a kid, now imagine nothing like it and a million times better. That's where we are.
- Billy McMahon:
- There is no telling what this little girl on a squirrel diet could end up doing.
- Billy McMahon:
- Professor Xavier is a total dick.
- Nick Campbell:
- Googliness!
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