Two salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital age find
their way into a coveted internship at Google, where they must compete
with a group of young, tech-savvy geniuses for a shot at employment.
Director:
Writers:
Vince Vaughn (screenplay),
Jared Stern (screenplay)
Stars:
Story:
Error Code 404: Laughs Not Found. There is a creepy, undead feel to this lumbering comedy set in the offices of Google, and Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn have a distinct Baron Samedi look in their eyes. They star in a depressing, and depressingly long, film as two unemployed, middle-aged salesmen who fluke their way into internship positions at the internet giant. Eerily unencumbered with personal or family responsibilities, the guys find their man-child slacker personae not going down well with all the uptight, smartphone-obsessed youngsters, who don't dig their jokey 80s references.There is, of course, no question of satire on tax avoidance: Google is sucked up to massively at all times; co-founder Sergey Brin gets a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo, and the chillingly heavy-handed deployment of the Google logo everywhere kills any question of comedy. This is a dreary experience, which incidentally includes a fair bit of stereotyping about how adorably geeky and yet unthreatening south Asians are.
Trailer:
Movie Rating (max. 5 Stars):
Summary:
A very shallow-brained comedy sponsored by Google. Maybe the actors are payed by Google, or only the producer. But that is not the problem, the problem is that the jokes are not funny - I got wether a laugh nor a smile, while this movie, so ......
Box Office:
| Domestic Total Gross: $44,672,764 | |
| Distributor: Fox | Release Date: |
| Genre: Comedy | Runtime: 1 hrs. 59 min. |
| MPAA Rating: PG-13 | Production Budget: $58 million |
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