Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Regency Enterprises, Wild West Picture Show Productions,

Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Rose Byrne, Max Minghella, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, John Goodman, Will Ferrell, Jessica Szohr, Dylan O’Brien, Josh Gad

Billy McMahon (Vince Vaughn) and Nick Campbell (Owen Wilson) are salesmen suddenly put out of work when their company shuts down due to the competition from the internet. They find themselves out of work, and not really qualified for anything else. Billy finds a job for them as interns for Google, but this turns into a giant competition. The interns are divided up to teams and then sent out on a quest to gain the most points for their team in a serious of competitions, and only the winning team will be hired. But of course no one wants to team up with these two, since even though they try to hire their tech savvy ignorance at every step, it still is apparent that they can’t complete with the college geniuses they’re up against, so they end up assigned with the group of losers and misfits.

This turned into a new age version of “Revenge of the Nerds” in a way, but I found it much better than I ever expected. There was some real humor in this flick, along with some real heartfelt moments. Immediately everyone rules them out as useless, but the boys prove that experience is an advantage and pretty soon the team looks up to them. With Vince and Owen in the film, obviously the humor is good, and there are some really classic moments. All in all I found this an interesting film, and I had the chance to witness the lifestyle in this film first hand for a week when I was invited to the Microsoft Campus one week back in 1999. I was amazed at the amenities on campus and had the same kind of wide eyed wonderment that Nick and Billy felt when I saw what life is like in this world. The purpose is to keep these genius kids busy and to have them never leave the campus. It’s a great place to live, and basically anything thing you could want or need is available here. Though it’s unbelievable, that’s a lot like how it really is. This movie was much stronger than I expected, mostly due to the supporting cast which did an excellent job. Not to take away from Vince and Owen, they give us just what we expect from them, but the rest of the cast was unexpected. One other unique thing about this film. This is my very first ever experience renting a film from RedBox. I’ve been wanting to do that for years and years, but I’ve never really needed to make a DVD run like the old Wherehouse and BlockBuster days, but it was a good experience. This movie got caught up in the “Long Wait” problem at NetFlix as I didn’t get it on release day, and soon was buried down in the queue. I like to review new releases as soon as possible after release to give you a heads up on what I like and what I don’t, but this one slipped through the cracks. I think I will utilize the RedBox thing more often in the future. It was a nice experience.

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