I admit, we didn't have high hopes for this movie, but we see almost every DVD or BD movie our public library buys. It was a cool wintry night here in Houston, so we put in in the player.
My wife and I both came away very happy with this movie. It is funny without being too slapstick. The situations carry the story.
Vince Vaughn co-wrote the script. Here he is Billy McMahon and Owen Wilson is his friend and sidekick, Nick Campbell. Billy and Nick are salesmen, the old-fashioned kind, who take a client out to lunch, deliver their spiel, then take the orders. On this fateful day they find out, from the customer, that their company had folded. They had nothing to sell. And they had no jobs.
Both actors are in their 40s, and play characters who are in their 40s with roughly 20 years of conventional sales experience. Through a series of incidents, Billy convinces Nick they should ramp up to modern times, and apply for a summer internship with Google, competing for a handful of jobs against college kids half their age. Kids who grew up with technology and Google, things Billy and Nick only knew about vaguely.
Well they manage to get into the program. From there the entire movie plays on the concept that to succeed you must learn to relax at times, have some fun, be creative, and foremost learn to like the people you work with so that you can generate real teamwork. For Billy and Nick this comes naturally, and they have to teach this to their rag-tag team of leftovers that no other team wanted.
It is hard to pinpoint exactly why, but for me this was one of the more entertaining comedies I have seen in a while.
The movie had full cooperation of Google and much of it was filmed in Mountain View, California, at the Google Campus.
My wife and I both came away very happy with this movie. It is funny without being too slapstick. The situations carry the story.
Vince Vaughn co-wrote the script. Here he is Billy McMahon and Owen Wilson is his friend and sidekick, Nick Campbell. Billy and Nick are salesmen, the old-fashioned kind, who take a client out to lunch, deliver their spiel, then take the orders. On this fateful day they find out, from the customer, that their company had folded. They had nothing to sell. And they had no jobs.
Both actors are in their 40s, and play characters who are in their 40s with roughly 20 years of conventional sales experience. Through a series of incidents, Billy convinces Nick they should ramp up to modern times, and apply for a summer internship with Google, competing for a handful of jobs against college kids half their age. Kids who grew up with technology and Google, things Billy and Nick only knew about vaguely.
Well they manage to get into the program. From there the entire movie plays on the concept that to succeed you must learn to relax at times, have some fun, be creative, and foremost learn to like the people you work with so that you can generate real teamwork. For Billy and Nick this comes naturally, and they have to teach this to their rag-tag team of leftovers that no other team wanted.
It is hard to pinpoint exactly why, but for me this was one of the more entertaining comedies I have seen in a while.
The movie had full cooperation of Google and much of it was filmed in Mountain View, California, at the Google Campus.