The Internship (2013)
Calling all luddites: The Internship is the comedy for you. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are teamed up again (and unfortunately don’t crash any weddings) and have to start at the very bottom of the corporate ladder because they aren’t tech-savvy. They’ve both been salesmen for twenty years, but the corporate world needs them to embrace the digital world as well. They intern at Google, and their experience is just as hilarious as you’d expect it to be. They’re not quite as backward as asking, “What’s a floppy disk?” but the kids half their age are twice as experienced in computers and high tech.
As someone who totally identified with the leads, I found this movie to be very funny. My nieces are more tech-savvy than I am, and I’m sure the younger folks in the audience would enjoy laughing at the “oldies” who don’t know how to create a website. And, for the younger folks, there’s a little romance thrown in between Owen and Rose Byrne, an executive. Their first date is very funny, as Rose confides she’s been too busy working to date; Owen says he’ll compensate and be the quintessential lousy date she’s been missing the past ten years. At the end of the meal, he steals her dessert while reminding her, “A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips,” and then makes her pay for the check. He’s such a doll.
So, try this one out if you like to make fun of the technology-challenged, or if you are one and want to see a couple of movie stars acting sympathetic towards your plight.
More Owen Wilson movies here!
As someone who totally identified with the leads, I found this movie to be very funny. My nieces are more tech-savvy than I am, and I’m sure the younger folks in the audience would enjoy laughing at the “oldies” who don’t know how to create a website. And, for the younger folks, there’s a little romance thrown in between Owen and Rose Byrne, an executive. Their first date is very funny, as Rose confides she’s been too busy working to date; Owen says he’ll compensate and be the quintessential lousy date she’s been missing the past ten years. At the end of the meal, he steals her dessert while reminding her, “A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips,” and then makes her pay for the check. He’s such a doll.
So, try this one out if you like to make fun of the technology-challenged, or if you are one and want to see a couple of movie stars acting sympathetic towards your plight.
More Owen Wilson movies here!