The Internship review- by kermode and mayo

Full text transcript of The Internship review

Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are two out of work salesmen, thank you. They’re out of work. They apply for an internship at Google. What do they do that? Because Google must be the best place on Earth to work. I mean, it’s their dream place. Why wouldn’t you want to play that? I mean, obviously, it’s somewhere which celebrates individuality. It’s making the world better. We know this because lots of characters tell us that this is what’s going on. They know nothing about computers. But, hey, it is very likely that once you go to Google, the Google genius of Google will realize that they’re great people even though they don’t understand the Internet, basically.

Come on, guys, let’s brainstorm on this puppy. We’re going to put the coffee in the morning working properly. I think it’ll be helpful to explore what apps have been go go backwards, to go forwards, and we can, you know, categorize Needleman as that type of user. All right, guys, I don’t want to kill the momentum or the mojo that you have cooking. But to be fair with you, needles and categories, they don’t use apps. People use apps. So I have an idea nowadays. People are taking pictures, right? They have their phones. Now they’re out. Something catches your eye. They want to take it. But then the photo is just sitting there. What if they take that photo and instantaneously put it out there on the line and they share it with their friends? That’s Instagram. It already exists. It’s one of the most popular apps in the world. Facebook bottom for like a billion dollars. I know mine is very different than that. How is your something very different than that? Because I’m like, you’re taking the photo instantaneously. You’re putting the it out there on the line. Yeah, I’m putting my photos out on the line. I’m creating an exchange. Yeah, that’s Instagram.

When I was watching this in the cinema before the film, there was a lot of adverts. I knew there were adverts because they were adverts and then the certificate came up and then there was an advert that said, hey, tweet about this online on the line. And then the film started and I sat there watching two hours of adverts for working at Google.

And it was quite apart from the fact that it was one of the most witless, humorless, vomit inducing, horribly self-satisfied, smug, unfunny comedies I have ever seen. I literally said that I have paid money to watch this advert. Why did you pay money? Because I had to because I couldn’t get to the screening of the press screening. So but I was it’s a two hour advert saying Google is fabulous, Google is great. Google is that there have been complaints about this sort of thing in the past. Tim Robbins, you say like, you know, well, Top Gun is an advert for the American military. Yeah. Yeah. But it’s got some really great sequences and some good jokes and a lot more laughs than the internship. It is one of those really strange things that watching it it’s not just that it’s a comedy vacuum in which nobody does anything that is even remotely funny ever. It’s that all the time the screen is cramming this horrible sales message down, you know, pointless. Everybody raises taxes. At no point does anybody raise the subject of inappropriate Googling. At no point does anybody raise the, you know, the very difficult subject about rankings. Oh, no, no, no. Because literally, the one character in the film that you’re meant to really like and sympathize with actually says, I’m working here because I believe this is making the world a better place. And it’s not a gag. It is an announcement. It is like saying here, here is six pounds. I would like for the next two hours for you to advertise a multi million dollar product to me. But don’t at any moment make me laugh, because if you do, the spell will be broken. It’s the longest advert I’ve seen in the cinema.

It was putrid and awful and I. I was torn between being bored and angry in a way which finally manifested itself in something approaching a catatonic stupor.