Full text transcript of The Internship critical review

You know, I can actually see how Vince Vaughn’s pitch for this movie happened because he did the story and half the screenplay for this movie is probably like this. Hey, guys, look, I want to make a movie about Google. We’ll get Google in every shot. We’ll say Google in every scene. We’ll pay for every single thing in the movie. We only have to have a production budget. We can just do it all ourselves. Google pay for all our money because I have to do is say, hey, we wanna make a movie about you and make you guys a great one. Make your industry look great. We want to make everything about you look great so you can make us look great by giving us a lot of money and we’ll do everything ourselves. Right. Big product placement movie. Just Google in every single shot. How about that? Is that cool? Is that cool with you guys? Oh, we got it. Owen Wilson, too, because he’s my buddy.

The internship is directed by Shawn Levy and stars Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson and Rose Byrne, this movie is about two guys, their salesman and Vince Vaughn comes up with this idea, hey, let’s try to be interns at Google and try to get a job there because they’re having this big competition for interns right now. And whoever wins this competition gets a job at Google. So then they go off to California, they’re at Google Industries, and they have this giant face off against these other teams of interns and these tech savvy kids that are now on their team have to teach Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn about code and the Internet and Google and everything. And Vaughn and Wilson have to teach these kids how to be a team and how to be people, persons and how to be likeable and how to talk to other people and sell themselves, basically. So they come together and be a team. And high jinks and heartwarming scenes ensue. When I look at the plot synopsis for this movie, I see a possibility for a really great comedy in there. Unfortunately, the filmmakers and the writers decide to take it in the most cliched way they possibly could.

Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson both play two really likable characters. I enjoyed their characters in this movie. They were funny at times and they weren’t annoying as I was afraid they were going to be. Vince Vaughn can sometimes be annoying in his comedies because he continuously does this fast talking thing on the talk around the talker. But that kind of worked for his character since he plays a salesman for once, they actually gave him a role that seemed to fit his style. And Owen Wilson is likable. You can’t really look at Owen Wilson and hate the guy. You can kind of see how the meeting came together. Before they made this movie. Vince Vaughn was talking to Owen Wilson. It probably went something like this. Hey, man, you want to be a comedy with me? Yeah, it’s about Google. I’m going to pay for, like, every single thing in this movie because they’re going to be Google every single shot. We’re going to say Google and every single scene. And it’s all going to be about Google, Google, and it’s going be a lot of fun. We can be like these interns are going to be a lot of fun.

When do you think, yeah, man, I don’t really have anything going on right now because Zoolander two is really working out.

So these two likable guys come together and they’re fun and enjoyable to watch and you don’t hate them. Unfortunately, the structure behind this movie fits the bill of the most cliched comedy structure you could think of. There’s, of course, the big evil bully intern who really wants the job for himself, who comes in and out of every scene with a giant posse following him of hot people. And this guy isn’t cool. You’re not supposed to like this guy. He’s a guy from Social Network, which is funny because in Social Network, he also played a guy who was competing for a bit of Internet glory, which is funny to me that he would do the same thing in the internship type cast. You got Rose Byrne playing the cute girl that already works for Google and Owen Wilson is starting to lust after her and they start a thing together. You got the big heartwarming scene where everyone becomes a family and everyone wants to work together and everything. And I’m not going to spoil what happens in the last 30 minutes. But every single thing that you can possibly think of that would happen in a movie like this does happen within the last thirty minutes of the movie. It’s not a horrible movie. It’s a perfectly watchable movie. It just has no surprises at all. The best way that I can describe the internship is to say, like, let’s say you were having a family barbecue and you had a whole bunch of people over and you guys are going to have food and you’re going to have drinks.

The internship would be like the perfect movie to have on the television, in the background. No one’s really paying attention to it. If anyone stops and looks at it, they be like, oh, that’s a pleasant movie. Yeah, those are two nice guys. All right, back to my hot dog. It would set a nice, heartwarming tone for your party. Anyone who paid attention to it for like two seconds, you’d be like, oh, that’s a nice little movie. OK, all right. But anyone who actually sat down and watched it would be like, wow, this is a pretty cliched movie. It’s you know, it is what it is. But no one would be doing that because they’d all be enjoying your barbecue. See, it’s the perfect barbecue movie they just have on in the background. I guess that’s kind of a really bad insult. Your movie is perfect to just kind of have on there and not really pay attention to. Like I said, it’s a watchable movie with two likable leads, but it’s the most cliched story structure you have available. And it’s not really funny, but it has some fun moments to it as well. But it’s just so easy to predict where each line is going. So I’m going to give the internship a C plus. As always, guys, thanks for watching. And if you like this, you can click right here and get stuck Marni’s.