From the moment the story opens we fondly reminisce of the days of The Wedding Crashers, a film that put Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn on the map. In this, they reunite as as two salesmen working for a wristwatch company that folds since time is well, now obsolete. Everyone looks at their mobile devices to tell time. The irony is that ‘time’ is ticking away. Nothing stays the same. Except Wilson and Vaughn.
With few skills and no available sales jobs, the two take a position as Interns for Google finding themselves stuck with the brainy-techy nerds of today’s kids. But with that premise, comes exhaustion for the audience…too much ‘wiring’ coming at us. Vaughn does that babbling Vaughn thing that made him famous, while geeky kid ramble senseless in high tech jargon. By the time the film settles in one isn’t sure that we really care about a premise whose intentions were to show us that you still need humans and experience to make the world go round.
All I could think of is how the last time I went out for a “happy hour” there wasn’t anymore interaction at a local bar. Everyone has their faces buried into their cell phone screens, forgetting that if they just lift their eyes by three inches, there’s a big world out there. ♚ ♛