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Author Topic: The Intern (2015) Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-25-2015 10:28 PM                        Well you really can't go wrong with Robert DeNiro and Anne Hathaway with Nancy Meyers directing, even if the results are fairly predictable. It is a by-the-numbers, check-your-brain-at-the-door, feel good romantic/workplace comedy that works. There aren't really many belly laughs, but plenty of smile-and-chuckle moments and a feel-good storyline that leaves the audience smiling. Most of the credit, I think, has to go to Anne Hathaway, who displays a good range of emotions playing an overworked company founder who's let her job take over her life to the point of alienating her husband. Enter DeNiro, a retired lifelong "company man" who's just longing for something to do, joins Hathaway's company's "senior intern" program and winds up providing a life's worth of wisdom to more than a few of the employees. DeNiro is a much more pleasant nice-guy type than he usually plays in his movies, and as such he's less believable. But he still does a nice job and makes a bold statement that "just because a person is old doesn't mean his knowledge is expendable." So take that, corporate America. The supporting cast is excellent too, especially Christina Scherer as Hathaway's over-driven assistant, Becky. I also got a kick out of the fact that most of the male supporting players seemed a little gay, but you weren't quite sure if they were gay, but since they work at a fashion company they probably were, but you never really knew for sure. The filmmakers might have done this on purpose so as to make the characters believable without turning-off the over-40 audience this movie is squarely aimed at. The way all the various plot threads get tied up neatly and perfectly in the last 15 minutes is maybe a bit too cut and dried, but overall it's a pleasant time at the movies. Our crowds are loving it, so that makes me like it more. 3 out of 5 stars. (I might have gone 3.5 stars, if not for the relentless Apple product placements, everything from computers to phones to phone ring-tones. It's a good thing the movie wasn't set in the future, otherwise we'd definitely have seen an Apple driverless car in the movie.)  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 10-28-2015 08:44 AM                     guess I didn't go into this with much expectations - I thought it was a delightful entertaining film, not great but enjoyable.  |  IP: Logged Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 10-31-2015 09:00 PM                     This movie surprised me. I liked it quite a bit. I'm not much of a DeNiro fan but seeing him not fill a colossal douche role was quite refreshing. I, too was a bit unnerved at the quickness of the ending. It just didn't feel right. Good flick, wouldn't even mind watching it again!  |  IP: Logged James Wyrembelski Expert Film Handler Posts: 114 From: Beaverton, MI, USA Registered: Sep 2015 posted 11-05-2015 12:04 AM                     I ended up watching this without planning on it. Pretty much predictable and cut and dry. However, its a great movie to go see at the theater on a rainy day, date night, or just want to relax night. Sometimes these work as I don't need such over excitement every time I go to the movies.  |  IP: Logged

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