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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.

When the magic in your movie about thieving magicians isn’t so special, you have a problem. Now You See Me‘s magic wasn’t so special. That is one of many problems with the movie and its most glaring. The big reveal wasn’t so big because you were expecting something. The red herring was too much to believe they kind of threw it in just to make the big reveal bigger, but you already new it was coming.

Anyhow, the film is a good popcorn movie. You’ll enjoy it for what it is, but afterwards you’ll forget about it until you catch it on USA network in 2 years.

The magic could’ve been more interesting.

3 of 5 stars.

Star Trek Into Darkness is Joss Whedon making action adventure rather than science fiction turning the Star Trek franchise into a bombastic summer blockbuster. Now there is nothing wrong with any of the action in the film, but I would’ve just loved to see some logic.

Logic like a Vulcan. Not like a Vulcan going into a volcano. What? Why can’t they just beam the bomb down? Or why doesn’t the Enterprise just do this all from space? Hunh? Submariner? Doesn’t make any sense if it was a science fiction but it’s an action flick.

We do get a lot of action. Good clean fun.

But it’s Kahn all over again. Is this what we want from our Star Trek franchise?

3 of 5 stars.