The Intern is the the new movie directed by Nancy Meyers which stars Robert de Niro as the optimistic and experienced Ben Whittaker and Ann Hathaway plays Jules Ostin. When Whittaker applies for a senior internship at a internet start up company he is paired with the founder of the company Jules Ostin who, get this, doesn't like old people (*cue loud gasp). Overtime however Whittaker works his charm and the two develop mutual respect between each other that helps them both "fill the whole" in their lives.
What to say about the Intern? Well its pretty much what you expect. The performance Robert de Niro lends to Ben Whittaker is admirable and Ann Hathaway is better then expected as the ambitious workaholic. The movie has a feel good vibe which turns off throughout its 2hr run time.
What works for the Intern also hold it back from being anything more then a decent movie. There is no depth to the movie and even though things are changing and developing scene to scene everything feels so similar. A scene that has Whittaker finally winning over Jules feels the same as the secretary overcoming her own self confidence issues. Part of this is due to the god awful score to the whole picture. The theme itself is just as serviceable as the premise of the film but I swear it doesn't change scene to scene. Its the same dumb piano cords that give the same dumb happy feel good vibe. Its like eating a good snack over and over again all day. At first its fine and you welcome it, but eventually you just want it to go away and after it doesn't (like this movies score) you just never want to here it again. Its a fine basis for a theme but a terrible score.
The Intern for me was very Vanilla. I didn't enjoy this movie but its just a hair above being a bad movie. I did laugh at parts because it was so sappy and at other parts because it was generally funny. Some scenes were sweet enough to be tasty and others so sweet to be bitter but thats what you get with these types of movie. I can't recommend this movie to others but I also can understand why some people will have liked it. 10 years form now I will probably have taken away more bad then good from this flick but that doesn't mean it had no good in it.
PS: I saw this movie with my mom and I dont see her much so that was nice
PSS: .......Tim KNOWS about the gems!
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