Verdict: ☆☆☆☆☆

Five friggin’ stars?? What are you crazy Jas??

Nope! You read it right, my friends. Don’t wipe your glasses and shake your head, don’t adjust your monitor settings. This movie was absolutely perfect in just about every single way! I was already a fan of Vaughn and Wilson, but wow! These two totally shot their humor into the stratosphere with this one.

The Internship… basically a 119 minute Google Advertisement that these two completely flipped on its back, yanked its pants off and shotgunned tequila shots next to from opening to closing credits without apologizing. It was one of the funniest movies I’ve seen since The Wedding Crashers!

Billy McMahon and Nick Campbell (Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson) play two mid-life, out of work salesmen who need something… anything… a bite in today’s recession when everything’s gone computer and just aren’t finding it. Brilliant as verbal mouth to mouth salesmen, they’re trying to look for just another step in a world where sales has gone digital.

That is until Billy stops Googling job searches and comes up with the brilliant idea to just Google Google itself and drops them both in the intern program.

What’s so amazing about the genuinely reactive chemistry this entire story pours forthwith upon our keyboards is the fact that just about everyone can identify with some part of this movie. Two oldsters who really aren’t that old (my God, the 80’s were just last week, right?) are thrust head first into the world of today’s internet where even the lingo is like another language… and expected to make it work. The kids don’t understand them and they don’t understand the kids. Sounds like parenthood, amIright? Another reason I identify with this movie! It was a total blast, every single second of it.

The Internship has nothing to prove. It is just a big jar of awesomesauce. If you get what I just said, you’ll love this flick. If you don’t get what I just said, you’ll love this flick even more!

Quick notes I jotted down while laughing my ass off the entire way through the movie:

~If you liked Wedding Planners, you’ll like this one
~Mr. Chetti, the Internship supervisor, played brilliantly by Aasif Mandviwala who’s comedy in this one reminds me very closely of John Turturro’s genius… hilarious!
~Keep it playing through the credits

I’m buying this one on blue ray. I don’t care if Google gets some royalty out of it. Heck, maybe they should for the brilliant marketing alone! Okay, I’m done before I ask this movie out on a date. Promise.