The Internship
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Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.
What critics thought
Critics broadly dismissed The Internship as a barely disguised corporate advertisement for Google dressed up as a buddy comedy, with even sympathetic reviewers struggling to overlook its feature-length promotional feel. The chemistry Vaughn and Wilson demonstrated in Wedding Crashers is present but wasted on a formulaic script, and the timing — arriving nearly a decade after that film's success — made the reunion feel belated rather than welcome.
“Here's why Google is so successful: It's figured out a way for Twentieth Century Fox to make a two-hour Google commercial disguised as a summer comedy”
Ty Burr·The Boston Globe
“The Internship itself would be kind of charming, too, if this Google-recruitment film, this 119-minute commercial for Googliness, weren't so downright creepy”
Stephen Rea·The Philadelphia Inquirer
“one of the most witless, humourless, vomit-inducing horribly self-satisfied, smug, unfunny comedies I have ever seen”
Mark Kermode·The Guardian
Genres
Comedy
Cast & Crew
Shawn LevyDirector
Vince VaughnBilly McMahon
Owen WilsonNick Campbell
Rose ByrneDana Simms
Aasif MandviRoger Chetty
Max MinghellaGraham Hawtrey
Josh BrenerLyle Spaulding
Dylan O'BrienStuart Twombly
Tiya SircarNeha Patel
Tobit RaphaelYo-Yo Santos
Josh GadAndrew 'Headphones' Anderson
Jessica SzohrMarielena Gutierrez
Rob RiggleRandy
Christophe BeckComposerVince VaughnWriter
Jared SternWriterThe Internship
Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.
What critics thought
Critics broadly dismissed The Internship as a barely disguised corporate advertisement for Google dressed up as a buddy comedy, with even sympathetic reviewers struggling to overlook its feature-length promotional feel. The chemistry Vaughn and Wilson demonstrated in Wedding Crashers is present but wasted on a formulaic script, and the timing — arriving nearly a decade after that film's success — made the reunion feel belated rather than welcome.
“Here's why Google is so successful: It's figured out a way for Twentieth Century Fox to make a two-hour Google commercial disguised as a summer comedy”
Ty Burr·The Boston Globe
“The Internship itself would be kind of charming, too, if this Google-recruitment film, this 119-minute commercial for Googliness, weren't so downright creepy”
Stephen Rea·The Philadelphia Inquirer
“one of the most witless, humourless, vomit-inducing horribly self-satisfied, smug, unfunny comedies I have ever seen”
Mark Kermode·The Guardian
Genres
Comedy
Cast & Crew
Shawn LevyDirectorVince VaughnBilly McMahonOwen WilsonNick CampbellRose ByrneDana SimmsAasif MandviRoger ChettyMax MinghellaGraham HawtreyJosh BrenerLyle SpauldingDylan O'BrienStuart TwomblyTiya SircarNeha PatelTobit RaphaelYo-Yo SantosJosh GadAndrew 'Headphones' AndersonJessica SzohrMarielena GutierrezRob RiggleRandyChristophe BeckComposerVince VaughnWriterJared SternWriterRent & Buy