The Internship [M]

When their watch company closes down on them sales reps Billy and Nick have a chance to reboot their obsolete careers. Recognising that they live in an age revolving around technology, the two take a summer internship at Google in the hope that a successful run will lead to a full time job. But when they get to Google it becomes apparent that their work is cut out for them as everyone else in the internship are young geniuses, their own computer skills are limited, and no one seems to want a bar of the two ‘dinosaurs’. Placed in an intern team of misfits and social rejects, the two boys work their gift of the gab to bring the team together to get a better shot at a new future. 

Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson work their phenomenally complimentary chemistry once again in this funny, clever, and heart-warming comedy that says ‘it’s never too late’. As cheesy as that opening sounds, it’s damned true and it sums up this movie perfectly. I missed this movie at the cinemas and I was really peeved because I absolutely adored the chemistry that Vince and Owen had in Wedding Crashers. The two are chalk and cheese and compliment each other so beautifully: Owen with his laid back, slow, Southern style and then Vince on the other end of the spectrum going a million miles a minute with such articulation and eloquence it’s mind-blowing! Within twenty minutes of this movie, I knew that it was going to be a ‘keeper’. 

When their watch company closes down on them sales reps Billy and Nick have a chance to reboot their obsolete careers. Recognising that they live in an age revolving around technology, the two take a summer internship at Google in the hope that a successful run will lead to a full time job. But when they get to Google it becomes apparent that their work is cut out for them as everyone else in the internship are young geniuses, their own computer skills are limited, and no one seems to want a bar of the two ‘dinosaurs’. Placed in an intern team of misfits and social rejects, the two boys work their gift of the gab to bring the team together to get a better shot at a new future. 

I’ve talked about the central cast chemistry, so we’ll now move on to all the other things are lovely and right about this film. The script is phenomenally clever and actually really witty in a nerdish sort of way. It’s cool to be a nerd nowadays, and the subculture of ‘nerd’ is not the 80s-bookish-glasses-socially-awkward type nerd, but any sort of geekiness whether it be insanely intellectual, cultured, or live and breath movies (like I do). We’ve seen the ‘nerd’ become cool in a lot of recent films: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Pitch Perfect, even Juno and it now can be said that this is the world we line in Gandalf! And it’s a fine time too. This movie and the writing so cleverly depicts where we are in the world, especially in terms of generational divides, which aren’t all that huge when you think about it and this movie shows that. Vince Vaughn’s character particularly, speaks in analogies of 80s movies and although they are massively cheesy and sometimes irrelevant, the fact that all the younger characters he’s preaching to understand the fundamentals as well as the source material just goes to show that there really isn’t so much of a generational gap. It’s fabulous! 

Starring Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Rose Byrne, Aasif Mandvi, Max Minghella, Josh Brener, Dylan O’Brien, Tiya Sircar, Tobit Rahpael, Eric Andre, Rob Riggle,, and Will Ferrell, The Internship is a great buddy picture that is all funny, clever, and heart-warming. Filled with fabulous movies and pop culture references and analogies, bromance, friendship, romance, and comedy, it’s a film that I really enjoyed and I believe that all Vince fans or Owen fans or buddy comedy fans will enjoy it as well.