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(Download The Internship) Billy (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Owen Wilson) are salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital revolution. 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.(Download The Internship Movie) But, gaining entrance to this utopia is only the start. Now they must compete with the nation's elite,(Watch The Internship Online) tech-savvy geniuses to prove that necessity really is the mother of re-invention.
There's something infectious about the Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn's brand of goofy humour and as expected,(Download The Internship) The Internship delivers laughs, screw ups and silliness in good, non-demanding escapist entertainment. Using the world of digital technology as a springboard,(Download The Internship Movie) Vaughn's screenplay (co-written with Jared Stern) cleverly juxtaposes 'old fashioned skills' like interaction and communication with the cyberworld where Googliness is holier than Godliness.
It's clever because the target market goes beyond internet geeks and facebook addicts, embracing earlier generations who remember a time before seatbelts and cybersex,(The Internship Download) when life was learned from experience, not from fantasy. Championing hope and reinforcing self belief, this culture clash buddy movie may not change the world, but it's likely to paint a smile on your face.
The early scenes establish the relationship between Nick (Wilson) and Billy (Vaughn), salesmen who have learned skills like selling ice to the Eskimos through a lifetime of wheeling and dealing.(Download The Internship Movie) The harsh, unattractive world of unemployment (when bluntly told by John Goodman as their sales boss) has no appeal and the gauche honesty Nick displays when he types into Google 'jobs for people with no skills' is perversely endearing.(The Internship Download) Watch out for Will Ferrell in a hoot of a cameo;(Watch The Internship Online) he plays a mattress salesman with a Sanskrit neck tattoo.
(Download The Internship) The online interview with Google proves Nick and Billy to be totally inept and out of their depth but the Internship of the title is offered in the context of their exemplifying a different way of thinking.
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There are some funny ideas and the club scene with pole dancers and red suspenders offering lap dancers unexpectedly results in a brainstorm at dawn by the Golden Gate Bridge.(Download The Internship) Director Shawn Levy handles the comic material well, but the mainstays of the film are its charismatic stars - Wilson and Vaughn do not disappoint.
As Cast Away (2000) was a feature length commercial for FedEx with a good story and big star (Tom Hanks) so The Internship is a feature length commercial for Google ... with a so-so story and fairly big stars in Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.(Download The Internship Movie) The latter play Billy and Nick, salesmen whose employer (John Goodman) - a watch distributor - has gone bust. The digital age has made watches - and their salesmen - redundant. (Download The Internship) So it is that the boys end up trying to get a job as one of the many summer interns at Google's San Francisco playpen-cum-HQ, competing for a full time job and perhaps a career at the end of it.
The humour comes from the combination of truth and make-believe as the two 30 something compete with the 20 somethings who are digital natives.(Download The Internship Movie) They are not so much has beens in digital terms as never beens.
(Watch The Internship Online) Vaughn's signature character of the blunt buffoon who is into every hedonistic activity at the drop of a hat continues to entertain his fans while Wilson's softer, hapless offside buddy persona balances Vaughn and excuses him for his behaviour.
The Google setting is mined for all its potential as a place where brilliant meets cocky and where life lessons from the older guys are eventually recognised.(Download The Internship) But not until lots of ego bruising and LOL collisions between the interns - like the self assured jerk (Max Minghella) as well as their leader, Mr Chetty (Aasif Mandvi).
The film is padded and thin, and the comedy feels like hard work.(Download The Internship Movie) Apart from the occasional scene that works well, the film doesn't have the texture, imagination or layers to satisfy.
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Owen Wilson (Nick) and Vince Vaughn (Bill) play a couple of trying-to-get-back-to-work middle-age dudes who find themselves in the high tech world of Google in an internship with many others,(The Internship Download) battling and competing for a job at the end of the day. There you go, in a nutshell, that is The Internship.
It feels like the plot serves more as a motivation to allow Wilson and Vaughn to have fun in some sketch comedy bits, but on the whole,(Download The Internship) it is lacking “the fun.” Now granted, there is some funny, but it hardly sustains over the length of the movie.
The movie ends up being a series of bits. Some of them work, some of them don’t and some of them are just down right boring,(Download The Internship Movie) attempting to move the plot forward, but instead stalling it out.
Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are actors who, undeniably, can be outrageously entertaining when given the right role.(Download The Internship) And, from the trailers, I thought this was going to be one of those Swinger,(Download The Internship Movie) Old School, Dodgeball-style of roles for Vaughn. He is an incredibly likeable and funny actor when given the right opportunity, but The Internship is full of lost opportunity. The same goes for Wilson, who is great in movies like The Big Year, Zoolander and Bottle Rocket, but is terribly mundane and affable,(The Internship Download) and nothing more here.
Pointless and wasted cameos abound (Rob Riggle, Will Ferrell and others),(Download The Internship) but those actors are not given much to do with their limited opportunities, which, I believe is in complete conflict with what Google has to offer – opportunity. (Download The Internship Movie) Director Shawn Levy and company take this opportunity for something with potential and more-or-less waste it.
There are some entertaining moments and the movie moves along at an acceptable pace.(Download The Internship) Much like a real world intern who doesn’t get the job,(Watch The Internship Online) this is less about what the movie didn’t do and more about what it could’ve done.
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