the INTERNSHIP

Twentieth Century Fox

Rated PG-13

Running time: 119 Minutes



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In Twentieth Century Fox's The Internship, obsolete salesmen Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson suddenly lose their jobs when their company closes and they apply for a summer internship job - at Google, the gigantic Internet search engine.

Written, Produced, and Starring Vince Vaughn this comedy is a nice, feel-good movie for the summer with a strong Google and fanboy slant. Totally different from The Social Network - the other computer website related movie - and the small audience that I saw The Internship with was laughing throughout the entire movie. Actually, the young cast of the movie made me feel like I was watching a college oriented film with people who have dreams. What is sad is the reason that Vaughn and Owen lost their jobs. Now these old guys have to compete the young tech-savvy college crowd. As Owens says, They are looking at some sort of mental Hunger Games against a bunch of geniuses kids for just like a handful of jobs. Of course being the old interns, Vaughn and Owen have no idea of what all the fan boy slang is that the interns Josh Brener, Tiya Sircar, Dylan O'Brien, and Tobit Raphael are using.

I liked the fact that they played Muggle Quiditch. I had never realized that they actually had created a game called Muggle Quiditch. Given the fact that the game is played on the ground, Muggle Quiditch pretty much follows Wizard Quiditch. Muggle Quiditch was actually pretty much fun to watch.

John Goodman's uncredited cameo as Vaughn's and Wilson's boss was great as always. Will Ferrell's cameo was also uncredited. There is also a cameo by Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin.

This movie is basically about fitting in amongst this complicated world, especially with computers. Learning about computers in order to run the help desk appeared to be daunting as Vaughn can attest to. It is a sad state of affairs that Vaughn and Wilson lose their jobs because their company was outdated and the business had to close.

A lot of Google products were shown, including Google's Gmail, Google Plus, Google Wallet and Google Maps, and the Google's self-driving car gets a cameo too. While the movie may be considered a commercial for Google, I liked the fact that I got to know more about Google and it's culture. There have been reports from Google interns that a lot of the movie is pretty accurate. 

The end credits were designed by Google's creative team.

Rated PG-13 for sexual situations, language, and violence. Running time: 119 Minutes.

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