Movie | The Internship

The Internship
Distributed By: 20th Century Fox
Released On: June 7, 2013 (USA)
DVD Release: October 22, 2013 (USA)
Rated: 12
Genre: Comedy
Format: TV
Rating: 4.5

Billy (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Owen Wilson) are salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital world. Trying to prove they are not obsolete, they defy the odds by talking their way into a coveted internship at Google, along with a battalion of brilliant college students. But, gaining entrance to this utopia is only half the battle. Now they must compete with a group of the nation's most elite, tech-savvy geniuses to prove that necessity really is the mother of re-invention.

After the company they work for is shut down, two salesmen with very few skills apply for an internship with Google. Due to their unusual interview answers, and for the sake of diversity, the two are somehow accepted for the internship despite their lack of experience or skills.

I hate to admit that I could not get into this at first. I don’t know if I just found the start to be a bit slow or if I just didn’t find the initial plot aspects interesting, but it wasn’t until they reached the Google headquarters that I began to enjoy it. Even then, I don’t think I really loved the film until the second task.

The main characters annoyed me to begin with. This may be the reason I didn’t enjoy the start of the movie. I found the two main characters, Billy and Nick, really annoying until around the second team task. After they had taken on the almost fatherly role, I really began to like them.

I really enjoyed the humour in this film. As a comedy, you obviously expect this film to be funny. I loved the fact that this was not in your face comedy but a subtle, more realistic comedy.

I loved the team. I completely fell in love with the team of rejects as soon as the characters were introduced. They were all dismissed by the rest of the interns but their coming together as a team, though initially unwillingly, showed them as a genuinely nice and very intelligent group of people. I am also a little bit in love with Dylan O’Brien after watching this film. Well maybe more than a little bit.

Overall, I really liked this movie. Although I struggled through the beginning, it was completely worth it for the rest of the movie. It was one of those movies that left me grinning and gave me that warm, fuzzy feeling long after it was finished. In fact, as soon as it finished I wanted to watch it again.