Best friends and super-sales partners for a watch manufacturer find themselves suddenly without a job. Can they leave their old-guy ways behind them and fit in with the twenty-something tech crowd at Google?
Part fish-out-of-water comedy, part super-ad for Google services, this actually turned out
to be a decent film with an especially resonant message for us over-forty types: Get with the times, or get left behind.
I actually decided to watch this film because of a trailer on another DVD I watched... it looked like a cute, non-romantic comedy that would be amusing and not too mentally taxing. In that respect, I was mostly right even with the small detour with Wilson's character, but I didn't realize that it would also have a message for today's youth... look up from your tiny phone screen once in a while and see where you are.
And it's not often a film about getting employment can simultaneously make me afraid for the employment futures of both my husband and my teenage child, but this one did. We are a fairly tech-savvy family, but even I can see the writing on the wall... the great companies to work for are going to have fierce competition, and anything less is going to make you dismally unhappy.
Over thirteen laugh out loud moments in this film, with an eyeroll moment when the group hits a strip club. The Quiddich game was hilarious. I kind of felt that the British antagonist was slightly unnecessary though... wasn't their old-guy obsolete way of thinking enough of an obstacle without throwing in a snarky asshole? Overall this is a great film to craft to, as it's mostly dialogue-rich.
I give this a four and a half out of five. They really, really didn't need the strip club scene for much, and the nursing-home Lothario was just gross. Re-write the strip club to be a regular bar, and lose the horny grandma jokes, and it'd be a perfect movie.
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