Disgruntled buddies Nick (Jason Bateman), Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) and Dale (Charlie Day) can't leave their miserable jobs, so they cook up a creative strategy for eliminating each other's micromanaging and maniacal employers (Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey) instead in this crackpot comedy. Peculiar advice from con artist Motherfucker Jones (Jamie Foxx) gets the scheme in motion, but the pals can't keep the wheels from flying off.
Another week into the summer of 2011 and we get yet another foul-mouthed raunchy comedy. It’s a trend that hopefully continues to happen because as I said countless times before, these are the best kind of comedies; they can do whatever they want to get you to laugh without having to worry about the underage children. Horrible Bosses combines its crude yet witty dialogue along with a great ensemble cast to make the second funniest movie of the year behind the yet to be released Friends with Benefits.
The film immediately jumps out at you introducing all three employees and the relationships each one has with their respective bosses. This was a quick and easy way to give you a taste of what all six characters will be like the rest of the film and get you laughing right off the bat. A few more showings of how terrible these bosses are and they quickly jump into the decision to kill their bosses. It’s obviously a fun subject that a lot of people imagine, I included, and what Horrible Bosses does so well is that it never feels like it has to go above and beyond to create a joke. It seems perfectly fine with simple gags and the bickering conversations between everyone. Its conclusion also feels fresh for a change, not going in the cliché way a lot tend to fall into. Its ending just seemed to fit along with the rest of its comedy and feels a lot fresher than a lot of the cliché trappings others in the genre seem to fall into.
The easiest reason this comedy works is its cast. They are great together. You know it’s great when you have a hard time figuring out who you loved the most. Of the employees, Charlie Day seems to steal the show. He’s got a fast and weird sense of humor that ends up on the receiving end on most of the laughs. Jason Bateman and Jason Sudeikis are the other two; Sudeikis keeps up with Day for the most part but unlike Bateman doesn’t need anyone to play off of to be funny. He creates his own jokes that stray away from what the other two are doing and is pretty damn funny. The best roles have to be the bosses. Kevin Spacey essentially plays himself, but plays the complete asshole to perfection. The film makes you want to actually kill him. The other two are the two brightest spots of the film because Aniston and Farrell are allowed to go outside their norm and play characters they are obviously having a blast with. Farrell and his comb over is great as the cokehead bad boy. He gets the least amount of screentime, but does a lot with what he gets. Aniston impresses me most because this is exactly the type of role I’ve always known she could pull off but never chooses too. She creates the most laughs with her absolute vulgar dialogue with Charlie Day. The two should end up creating a spin-off prequel of their own, I’d watch it. I am positive now that if Aniston would have starred in Bad Teacher instead of Diaz, it would have been double as fun.
Horrible Bosses is another comedy to add to the long list already released. It will be one of the funniest films you see this year. Its comedy is spot on and flows in a way that never does the film have a downtime. It keeps you laughing consistently the whole way through. I’d have a hard time picturing someone not at least enjoying this, but I have a feeling people will come to love this. It’s the type of film that shows the product you get when you take a creative risk in Hollywood. This is the type of film you should make time to see soon rather than later. So do it.
Overall Score: 8/10
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