July2013_MOVIE REVIEW The Internship
By Gemma Schuhmann
The Internship follows two sales men (Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson) after they have just lost their jobs to the advancement in technology. Instead of falling to pieces they decide to go with the flow. An internship at Google they decide will make them more technologically equipped to allow themselves a fighting chance in a changing world.
The Internship follows two sales men (Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson) after they have just lost their jobs to the advancement in technology. Instead of falling to pieces they decide to go with the flow. An internship at Google they decide will make them more technologically equipped to allow themselves a fighting chance in a changing world.
This film may look like a typical comedy especially with two ‘funny guys’ as the lead actors but it’s not. The jokes are good but they are not relied upon as the sole source of entertainment. They help the story rather than overtake the whole film. The joy of this film comes from the interaction between two generations. One forever talks about Flashdance while the other talks about Harry Potter. However neither generation explains their jokes so you have to be from that era to get them.
By the end of this film you will have Google overload. The amount of information and facts this film puts across is amazing. Each fact is thrown in so subtly it’s hardly noticeable until after you leave the cinema and start to think about it. The film is a massive advertisement for Google. Very few scenes go by where there isn’t a mention of Google, or it’s written somewhere. It’s almost a relief to walk away from the movie and not have to look at the colours red, yellow, blue and green in such abundance again.
Finally there is a film where an Australian actor actually gets to use their own accent in a Hollywood film. However using a true Aussie accent means some terrible jokes come with it. Vegemite and being mistaken as English are of course included in the bundle of Aussie jokes. Vince Vaughn can be thanked for the jokes as he wrote the script. This film proved that he is more than a one dimensional actor that can only do comedy. Without the coming together of two generations this film would never be as heart-warming as it is.
The Internship will bridge the generation gap and will leave you saying, ‘Google it.’
By the end of this film you will have Google overload. The amount of information and facts this film puts across is amazing. Each fact is thrown in so subtly it’s hardly noticeable until after you leave the cinema and start to think about it. The film is a massive advertisement for Google. Very few scenes go by where there isn’t a mention of Google, or it’s written somewhere. It’s almost a relief to walk away from the movie and not have to look at the colours red, yellow, blue and green in such abundance again.
Finally there is a film where an Australian actor actually gets to use their own accent in a Hollywood film. However using a true Aussie accent means some terrible jokes come with it. Vegemite and being mistaken as English are of course included in the bundle of Aussie jokes. Vince Vaughn can be thanked for the jokes as he wrote the script. This film proved that he is more than a one dimensional actor that can only do comedy. Without the coming together of two generations this film would never be as heart-warming as it is.
The Internship will bridge the generation gap and will leave you saying, ‘Google it.’
