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Movie Review - Horrible Bosses
At times, the audience laughing drowns out the movie….
Horrible Bosses – (2011) Rated R, Crude and sexual content, pervasive language and some drug material, 100 Minutes
This seemed like a long week at the rock pile. Even with Monday off as the July 4th holiday, the week seemed endless. I wasn’t really in the mood to even see a movie.
Thank goodness I dragged myself to the theater.
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The Regal was packed with the kids comedy Zookeeper opening, and I sprinted to the opening of Horrible Bosses. The lines at the concession stand went on forever, so I sat down in the movie without even a soda to wet my palette.
I needed it, for the next 100 minutes were laugh out loud fun.
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Three guys (Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis) and have bad bosses. One boss is a cokehead (Colin Farrell), the other has a rather large ego (Kevin Spacey), and the last (played amazingly well by the “naughty” version of Jennifer Anniston) is sex hungry.
The trio decides their world would be better without their bosses, and hire Jamie Foxx as their murder consultant.
They do so with the help of Gregory, a disembodied voice in the car OnStar reminiscent of K.I.T.T. in Knight Rider.
As the group goes about their grizzly task, they quickly discover none of them are really up to the challenge of killing their bosses…and then they see one boss kill another boss.
Yes, the laughs are of the sophomoric variety, similar to The Hangover or Yet, it is cleverly written sophomoric humor having the entire packed theater in laughs. At times, the audience laughing drowns out the movie….
Will this film go into history as Cinema Magic? Not at all.
That said, I left the theater with a smile on my face, and ready to start the weekend. Thanks, New Line Cinema.
Horrible Bosses gets a
Green Light – Go and enjoy
About the RAG scale:
Green Light – Go and enjoy
Amber Light – Use caution
Red Light – Save your time and money
The Author
Gary Kelley has lived in Westborough since 1994. His reviews are what he would tell friends, and are not an academic analysis.
