The Intern<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Warner Bros<\/b><\/p>\n
Reviewed by: Tami Smith, Guest Reviewer for Shockya<\/b><\/p>\n
Grade: C+<\/b><\/p>\n
Director: Nancy Meyers<\/b><\/p>\n
Written by: Nancy Meyers<\/b><\/p>\n
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Robert De Niro, Rene Russo, Adam DeVine, Andrew Rannells, Celia Weston<\/b><\/p>\n
Release: September 25, 2015<\/b><\/p>\n
After Ben Whittaker (Robert De Niro) got bored of using \u201cextra miles\u201d for travel, doing T\u2019ai chi in the park every morning, and learning Mandarin, he found a new \u201cproject\u201d and applied for a Senior Intern\u2019s position at a start-up online clothing catalog company in Brooklyn. The seventy-year old Ben got the job and was assigned to work for Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway) the founder. Slowly but surely he progressed from an assistant to Jules\u2019 secretary to becoming Jules\u2019 personal driver, travel companion and her daughter\u2019s chauffer on occasions.<\/b><\/p>\n
Plainly, The Intern<\/i> is a crowd pleaser feel-good comedy, which targets older audiences in general and women in particular. Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway were not first choices for the leading roles but accepted after Tina Fey, Michael Caine and Reese Witherspoon opted out. It is hard to find fault with De Niro\u2019s or Hathaway\u2019s acting which is engaging, but the screenplay written by director Nancy Meyers suffers from banality and lack of comic sharpness in the funny parts. A police chase scene that involves Breaking and Entering is uncalled for. I found Rene Russo\u2019s role as Fiona, the \u201cHouse Masseuse\u201d, to be silly, especially when she gives De Niro\u2019s Ben a bonus massage on his lower back, which has the \u201csexual harassment\u201d bells ringing loud and clear. The family dynamics in the Ostin household look forced. Anders Holm, as husband Matt is a stay-at-home-dad, a \u201chouse-husband\u201d as Ben calls him, who creatively splits his time between very early morning child care, mid A.M. extra marital affair and P.M. \u201chusband-in-kitchen\u201d scenarios. JoJo Kushner plays cute daughter Paige, who cries and laughs \u201cby the numbers\u201d. The part of Administrative Assistant Becky Scott, played by Christina Scherer, is written for a secretary circa the 1960s with all the hysterics that come from an overworked and overqualified college graduate.<\/b><\/p>\n
The Intern<\/i><\/b> is paced in a speedy manner by director Meyers, and characters spew their lines in rapid fire, which diminishes the effectiveness of the screen play. Credit, however, is due to screenwriter Meyers for recognizing a major Digital Generation problem: the failure to communicate \u201cone-on-one\u201d without the use of E-mails, texts and twits.<\/b><\/p>\n
The film was photographed beautifully, in Brooklyn, by Stephen Goldblat. The office and warehouse exteriors were done in Cheever Place, near Columbia Street, while the beautiful interiors, include brownstones in Carroll Gardens and Park Slope, designed by Kristi Zea.<\/b><\/p>\n
Rated PG-13. 121 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Tami Smith, Guest Reviewer<\/b><\/p>\n
Story: C+<\/b><\/p>\n
Acting: B<\/b><\/p>\n
Technical: B+<\/b><\/p>\n
Overall: C+<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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