Movie | The Internship

The Internship
Distributed By: 20th Century Fox
Released On: June 7, 2013 (USA)
DVD Release: October 22, 2013 (USA)
Rated: 12
Genre: Comedy
Format: TV
Rating: 4.5

Billy (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Owen Wilson) are salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world. 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. But, gaining entrance to this utopia is only half the battle. Now they must compete with a group of the nation's most elite, tech-savvy geniuses to prove that necessity really is the mother of re-invention.

After the company they work for is shut down, two salesmen with very few skills apply for an internship with Google. Due to their unusual interview answers, and for the sake of diversity, the two are somehow accepted for the internship despite their lack of experience or skills.

I hate to admit that I could not get into this at first. I don’t know if I just found the start to be a bit slow or if I just didn’t find the initial plot aspects interesting, but it wasn’t until they reached the Google headquarters that I began to enjoy it. Even then, I don’t think I really loved the film until the second task.

The main characters annoyed me to begin with. This may be the reason I didn’t enjoy the start of the movie. I found the two main characters, Billy and Nick, really annoying until around the second team task. After they had taken on the almost fatherly role, I really began to like them.

I really enjoyed the humour in this film. As a comedy, you obviously expect this film to be funny. I loved the fact that this was not in your face comedy but a subtle, more realistic comedy.

I loved the team. I completely fell in love with the team of rejects as soon as the characters were introduced. They were all dismissed by the rest of the interns but their coming together as a team, though initially unwillingly, showed them as a genuinely nice and very intelligent group of people. I am also a little bit in love with Dylan O’Brien after watching this film. Well maybe more than a little bit.

Overall, I really liked this movie. Although I struggled through the beginning, it was completely worth it for the rest of the movie. It was one of those movies that left me grinning and gave me that warm, fuzzy feeling long after it was finished. In fact, as soon as it finished I wanted to watch it again.

Movie | Our Idiot Brother

Our Idiot Brother
Distributed By: The Weinstiein Company
Released On: August 26, 2011 (USA)
DVD Release: November 29, 2011 (USA)
Rated: 12
Genre: Comedy
Format: TV
Rating: 1

After his early release from jail after supplying a police officer with cannabis, Ned (Rudd) is dumped by his girlfriend and denied custody of his dog, Willie Nelson. With nowhere to go, Ned arrives on his sister's doorstep. He then spends his time moving between the homes of his three sisters and although at first they are weary of having their pot-smoking hippie brother living with them they grow to love his eternally positive and honest manner.


After a brief stint in prison for selling drugs to a uniformed police officer, Ned is forced to move back home to his family – his mother and three sisters – after being thrown out by his girlfriend, who will not let him take his dog. With nowhere else to go, he invades his sister’s lives leaving a trail of destruction behind him.

I now understand why I had not heard of this movie. I was surprised, given the cast, that I had not heard anything about this movie. I now wish I still had not heard anything about this movie.

I was expecting so much better from this cast. With the likes of Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks and Zooey Deschanel, I was expecting at least good things. I was so disappointed. Their fantastic acting skills, which were still up to par, were completely wasted on this film.

I didn’t even like the plot. From the description, this could have been a good plot. Again, I was disappointed. Surely no normal grown man is as stupid as Ned. Some of the things he does were just ridiculous. I was also quite annoyed by the importance of the dog to the story. I love dogs but there was no need for that aspect of the plot, it just added to the stupidity in my opinion.

Overall, I did not like this movie. The plot underwhelmed me and the whole movie was just annoying to me. The only positive thing I can say about this was the acting. The cast were great but I feel like this movie was a waste of their talents.

Movie | Grown Ups 2

Grown Ups 2
Sequel To: Grown Ups
Distributed By: Columbia Pictures
Released On: July 12, 2013 (USA)
DVD Release: November 5, 2013 (USA)
Rated: 12
Genre: Comedy
Format: TV
Rating: 3

After moving his family back to his hometown to be with his friends and their kids, Lenny finds out that between old bullies, new bullies, schizo bus drivers, drunk cops on skis, and 400 costumed party crashers sometimes crazy follows you.


The sequel to 2010’s Grown Ups follows four childhood friends – Lenny, Eric, Kurt and Marcus – three years after their eventful trip to the lake house. In this time, Lenny has quit his job and moved his family back to his hometown to be with his best friends. Summer is just around the corner and the four friends plan to make it just like the old days, with bizarre consequences.

The start of this movie is ridiculous. A deer appears in the bedroom without anyone knowing. I don’t know about you but all I would expect from leaving your front door lying open during the night is a whole lot of things missing. I really can’t get my head around this beginning at all.

You cannot take this movie seriously. There is almost nothing realistic in this movie. If you were to try and take it seriously, you would completely hate it. However, I found the majority of the unrealistic situations to be so bizarre they became funny. The whole thing was ridiculous but it somehow worked, to some extent.

I liked that the children had more of a story in this movie. The first movie was very focused on the “adults”, with their children providing additional jokes. I found that this movie involved the children a lot more and I thought it added to the family comes first message of the film.

Taylor Lautner as a frat boy is just cringey. I mean this in the best possible way. His character is so arrogant and stupid that I couldn’t help but cringe during every scene he was in. For some reason, I found this hilarious and ended up loving his character for that reason alone.

Overall, I did actually like this movie. I was expecting awful things and it was a lot better than I expected. However, it was quite stupid and unrealistic. Although these aspects mostly made it funny, some were just too much and ruined the film a bit for me.