[Movie Review] The Internship

When I first saw the poster for "The Internship," I thought it was going to be like "The Social Network" and be more about the making of Google.  The poster to me just has a serious tone to it that I wouldn't think it was a comedy.  However, seeing the trailer, I obviously knew it was a comedy.  I was excited for the movie.  I wasn't a fan of "Wedding Crashers" but in general I like Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson so I was looking forward to it.

The premise of the movie is all in the trailer, "The Internship" is about laid off salesmen that take an internship with Google.  No twist or b story.  They compete with college students half their age with their team of three other 21 year olds and 23 year old Google manager that were the "Outliers."  Vaughn and Wilson have to keep up with the task in order to be insured a job after the summer internship.  They also have to deal with jerk Graham (Max Minghella, the actor that played the sidekick jerk to Armie Hammer's twin main jerks in "The Social Network").

The movie is very funny and notes several things in our culture: The denomination of Google, the subculture of computer nerds that has the popular kids and and outcast, and human interaction online and off. The movie was not raunchy as "Wedding Crashers" but I actually found it to be more entertaining.

Some critics have sad that the movie is a long Google commercial, but I didn't get that at all.  I feel like life is so full of Google anyway that watching a movie with Google in it seemed natural.  It was cool to see the Google office and just the office culture of the institution. 

Overall, I thought it was a great movie.  It had good messages that weren't preachy.  It was a feel good movie that wasn't cheesy and definitely one of the better movies this year thus far.