Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson (Midnight In Paris) are back together again with new film, The Internship, which takes corporate sponsorship to the next level. Set in the cut-throat world of Google’s intern programme, it’s a big departure from the existing form of using imagined environments for movies instead of big name brands.
The trailer’s got its funny moments, but the film turned out to be a middle of the road feel-good comedy. Read our review of the movie at https://www.tuppencemagazine.co.uk/the-internship-dvd-review/ to find out more about how the comedy stacked up to the might of their previous movie, The Wedding Crashers.
The plot follows salesmen, Billy and Nick (Vaughn and Wilson), who’s careers have been crushed by the might of online sales meaning their company can’t compete with the more tech-savvy.coms. In a desperate move to get in on the action and to make something out of their crumbling future they randomly manage to get themselves onto Google’s internship programme, pitting themselves against much younger, smarter prospective employees for the search giant.
Brilliantly, John Goodman (Argo) has also been cast in the film as their former boss who closes their company, sending them off into their mind-bending tangent into Google internship. Rose Byrne (I Give It A Year) also stars in the movie, bringing with her the love interest aspect with Owen Wilson in the hot seat. While Vaughn doesn’t really have much in the way of on-screen romance, if you check out the un-rated version you’ll see that he more than makes up for this at the nudie bar.
The Internship had a cinematic release date of the 7th June 2013, putting itself in a good position for the summer comedy blockbuster success, before it was released on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download on the 11th November 2013. Surprisingly, the film has been written by Vaughn himself, alongside Jared Stern, and Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum and Date Night) took the director’s chair having worked with Vaughn as the producer of 2012’s The Watch.
While Vince Vaughn has taken well to his place in comedy films, it would be great to see him take on a few more serious plots in the future. He made a pretty good Norman Bates in the remake of Psycho, so it would be cool to see him taking on a bad guy role next, although the reality is that the next film he’s got coming out will be a reprise of his role as Wesley Mantooth in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, which is something to look forward to no matter what.
Either way you look at it, The Internship is a light-hearted summer comedy that drew a pretty decent when it was released, despite not getting the best reviews. However, with Social Network already featuring Facebook, surely it’s only a matter of time before we see films with names like The Big Applebowski, Mr and Mrs Soft, Undercover McNuggets or Sammy Sung’s Coming to America.
