Review of The Internship (2013) by Robert H — 31 Dec 2013

I'll call this movie out for what it is: a feature-length advertisement for Google. Beyond that it's a retread of DODGEBALL, and not half as funny either. Most of the time I wanted to cringe at how bad this movie was.

There was nothing new or fresh about any of it. The only good thing about it was the comic banter between Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughan, who plays the character he plays in every movie. Sure, the underdog story is easy to get behind, but at times it was cloyingly sentimental and it stuck to close to the beats audiences have come to expect from these types of movies.

Since I watched the extended/unrated version, yes there were some f-bombs and extended party sequence complete with nudity, but it messed up the pacing of the movie, which was already 15-20 minutes too long anyway.

Not only that, but it felt tacked on and out of place. The only other good things were some brief cameos by better comic actors (John Goodman, Will Ferrell and Rob Riggle. There's even a mid-credits "lost cosplay" scene which is funnier than most of the previous material.

Even the credits were more creative than the script. Overall this was a dud and people in the mood for this type of comedy would be better served by revisiting DODGEBALL or WEDDING CRASHERS.