The Internship
Google is a circus. At least that’s what I saw of it in The Internship. There’s a slide alongside the stairs. You can use it to get quickly down a level. There’s a Quidditch pitch. There’s sleep pods. It’s everything you hear about tech companies come to life. The question is how much of it is true. There seems to be a small city populating the Google headquarters as the set was always filled with extras. (I was at B&N last week and heard the instructor for the Nook class refer to Google as “The Google.”)
The movie was about two older gentlemen, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, who lose their job because the watch company they were salesman for closed down due to the ubiquitous use of cell phones as watches. They can not find another job; so they turn to an internship at the Google. It’s not a sure thing, but they qualify for the internship and must show that they belong.
The interview is one of the funnier bits of the movie. There just wasn’t too many.
I like when Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson get together. They’re a fun couple. When the script is good, they’re great to watch — Vaughn in particular, with that wit of his. Wilson holds his own as well. Bros be bros! Yet, this film written by Vaughn wasted them in a setting that didn’t make any sense. It was predictable as a set up — old folks teach young folks new tricks and learn the value of youth.
Rose Byrne was wasted as the love interest in the plot device thrown in for the ladies. Aasif Mandvi was too Indian, and would have a beer with you later as you know he will. Tiya Sircar, the sexy, Indian, was sexy; wish they showed the cosplay. The filipino guy was driven to death by his filipino mom. But the show stealer has to have been headphones guy. He was played by the son of Bill Pullman’s President on 1600 Penn. He’s funny as all get out.
Overall, I would wait until it shows up on TBS in the future. But only watch it 10 minutes at a time as TBS rotates the hell out of it.
3 of 5 stars.
