On July 8, 2011, I saw Horrible Bosses with my brother Justin. Let me just say off hand going into this movie, I didn't think I would like it at all, but it ended up being pretty decent overall. If you've seen the trailers, the movie follows three friends played by Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day. They all experience their own problems with their respective bosses played by Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, and Jennifer Aniston. Of course, they eventually get the idea to kill their bosses. After this is established, the movie picks up in entertainment value. The only storyline I didn't like was the Aniston/Day storyline, but I've never been a Jennifer Aniston fan to begin with so chalk that up to what it's worth. The best part of this movie without a doubt is Kevin Spacey. I feel he sets the tone of the movie for what the main characters are rebelling against. Bateman's character is really the only one that you feel for because of hoe Spacey's character treats him. There are some great twists that occur towards the middle of the movie and I liked the direction they took. I would definitely say give this movie a try. There were some legitimate funny scenes throughout the movie as Bateman, Sudeikis and Day have great comedic chemistry, but as I said Spacey is the glue of the movie in my opinion. Farrell is kept to a minimum and really most of his parts can be seen in the trailer, but that's alright since Farrell is not a favorite, though I enjoyed his character of Danny Witwer in Minority Report. Overall, I'd give the movie a 3/5, because I really didn't like the aforementioned storyline but some of the plot twists helped this movie to keep me interested. I normally don't rank comedies that high anyway, but this is definitely one of the better ones I've seen with Bridesmaids being the one to entertain me the most this year.
-Gerard
So I know I said I wouldn't be seeing anymore movies until Harry Potter... Well, I lied. I went to go see "Horrible Bosses". Yay our first double review. Since Gerard has handled most of the summary, I'll just go straight into the review.
First things first, this movie has probably the greatest amount of base humor I have seen since Austin Powers. However, like Austin Powers it was well executed. My personal favorite parts of the movie were Kevin Spacey and Jennifer Aniston. Any scene those two were in; immediately stolen.
An aspect of this movie that I really liked was seeing actors breaking their "type casting". Aniston playing a crazy bitch, instead of her good girl image was amazing. Kevin Spacey has been known to play some psychotic characters in the past but rarely in a comedy like this. Ioan Gruffud ("Fantastic Four", "Horatio Hornblower") makes a cameo appearance as the "Wet Man", way too funny to fully explain. Ron White also makes an appearance in the film.
The base humor accomplished two goals that I personally like to see: 1) actually advancing the plot 2) funny. Very rare you find a comedy that does both especially with the level of humor that this movie has. This movie also has some replay value. The jokes come at you quickly, so I am sure while I was doubled over laughing I missed something.
I won't say this is a "Must See" in theatres but it is very enjoyable. I'll go with 3/5 stars
-Jacqui
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