The Internship
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: June 7, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
20
Negative:
9
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanJun 7, 2013
There’s a reason that it lacks the highs of "Wedding Crashers": The Internship puts us on the side of those who are trying to hold on to respectability, not tear it down. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyJun 7, 2013
The moments of sentiment, when they come, feel fully earned, and they come out of characterization. Read full review
75
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallJun 6, 2013
The humor is an underdog's fantasy, tapping the same vein Murray bled dry with self-important camp counselors and military officers; the less cool they are, the harder they'll fall. Read full review
75
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreJun 6, 2013
Interns Wilson and Vaughn swap lines like veteran jazz musicians who still have a sense of play about them — an endless supply of nicknames, high-and-low fives, dated slang and goodwill — theirs for each other, and ours for them. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJun 6, 2013
The Internship is the movie version of a goofy dog that knows only a few tricks but keeps on looking at you and wagging his tail, daring you not to like him. Down, boy. You win. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerJun 6, 2013
Shawn Levy's occasionally uproarious, warm-hearted comedy is about different generations educating each other, but it never seems rote. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaJun 6, 2013
The Internship itself would be kind of charming, too, if this Google-recruitment film, this 119-minute commercial for Googliness, weren't so downright creepy. Read full review
60
Total FilmKen McIntyreJul 5, 2013
Vaughn and Wilson. eight years on from "Wedding Crashers," the pair successfully rekindle their irascible shtick. Read full review
60
VarietyScott FoundasJun 2, 2013
This big-hearted underdog comedy from director Shawn Levy is, much like its two leads, exceedingly affable and good-natured despite being undeniably long in the tooth. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberJun 2, 2013
The actors do what they can to supply the texture missing from the script. Vaughn and Wilson riff together with pleasing professionalism. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyJun 6, 2013
Though by no means a good movie, The Internship floats along for fairly well for about half its length, thanks to the easy interplay between the two stars and a certain melancholic topicality. Read full review
50
Washington PostJen ChaneyJun 6, 2013
The fact that this overlong, often preposterous comedy succeeds at all (which it does, only occasionally) proves that the Vaughn/Wilson charm can still work a measure of magic. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia PuigJun 6, 2013
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson may be the worst interns since Monica Lewinsky. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsJun 6, 2013
Congratulations, visitor. You have been randomly selected to beta test an entertainment-software product called “The Internship 2.0.” Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter TraversJun 6, 2013
A flabby farce that might win a pass at the box office because it's just so cute and family friendly. But where's your edge, guys? Where are the laughs that walk a tightrope? Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrJun 6, 2013
It’s the kind of Hollywood formula product that proves why the formula’s so hard to kill: simultaneously easy to like and impossible to respect. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 6, 2013
Levy surely knew that the script at hand didn't warrant a full two-hour running time; even if you enjoy The Internship, as my son did, it feels 20 minutes over-full at least. Cut out half of the "Flashdance" and "X-Men" references, and you're halfway there. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubA.A. DowdJun 5, 2013
The real star of The Internship is Google itself, and what a self-aggrandizing diva she is. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesJun 5, 2013
Product placement aside, there’s an admirable, even sweet, message about fellowship and misfit pride shot through the whole script, and Vaughn is rather touching as a kind of cuddly uncle figure to his fellow interns. Read full review
50
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezJun 5, 2013
The Internship might be the best worst comedy of the year thus far. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyJun 5, 2013
The movie is not exactly a laugh riot. But its comedy is amiable enough — and surprisingly clean. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJun 5, 2013
This vaguely funny film is also the saddest and most depressing movie of 2013.
42
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJun 7, 2013
There’s a potentially good comedy to be made about old-school guys trying to make a go of it in a youth-dominated digital marketplace, but director Shawn Levy and screenwriter Jared Stern overdose on moronic excursions. Read full review
40
Time Out LondonGuy LodgeJul 5, 2013
It’s a testament to the duo’s jazzy comic chemistry that they wring some laughs from this dated, frankly sinister premise. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyJul 3, 2013
That the film ends up floundering is not really their fault. These two belong on screen together: when they’re not completing each other’s sentences, they’re completing them wrongly, which is even better. Read full review
40
SalonAndrew O'HehirJun 6, 2013
What makes The Internship especially unfortunate is that there are pieces of a better, funnier movie lying around here, pretty much unnoticed. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJun 5, 2013
The Internship has some funny moments. The cast is too talented for it to come up completely dry. But for a movie about a place so filled with ambitious climbers, it is far too lazy. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJun 6, 2013
Everything about it feels stale: the actors, the story, the comedy, everything. And, to make matters worse, that everything goes on for an interminable two hours. Read full review
36
Film.comWilliam GossJun 4, 2013
In fact, The Internship rivals the aggressively bland “Larry Crowne” for sheer tepidness, if not worse due to the exhaustive product placement for a company whose real-life presence is unlikely to soon wane. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla DargisJun 6, 2013
Written by Mr. Vaughn and Jared Stern, The Internship spreads the corporate gospel with sporadic jokes, the usual buddy-film shenanigans (a visit to a strip club, a teasingly shared bed) and a lot of motivational cant. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithJun 6, 2013
It seems more likely that a dumb movie will lead only to a time-wasting surge in applications from dummies. Maybe The Internship was secretly funded by Bing. Read full review
20
The GuardianPeter BradshawJul 5, 2013
There is a creepy, undead feel to this lumbering comedy set in the offices of Google, and Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn have a distinct Baron Samedi look in their eyes. Read full review
20
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJun 6, 2013
You need only watch the trailer to know that The Internship is a promo for Google; think Google for Dummies, as well as Summer Comedy for Dummies. It's as if the writers googled "how to write a script" and nothing came up, so they wrote this anyway.
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJun 6, 2013
Who let an unfunny, irritatingly acted two-hour commercial for Google onto multiplex screens? Read full review
20
Time OutEric HynesJun 6, 2013
A movie sorely bereft of ideas, laughs and justification for the comic duo’s undifferentiating self-regard. Read full review
10
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekJun 6, 2013
For those of you on a really tight entertainment budget, you'll be paying at least 8 cents per minute not to laugh. Your money is better spent on beans and rice. Read full review
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