Horrible Bosses

  Horrible Bosses is a film with a vacuous, yet relatable plot about hating your boss and wanting he/she to die.  I found myself not caring that the story lacked depth because the performances were so funny.  Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis star in this new comedy from director Seth Gordon, who directed Four Christmases and the very interesting documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (a must-see doc about real-life competitions between the world's best players of the classic arcade game Donkey Kong). 
  Charlie Day, who we all love from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, plays Dale, a dental hygienist who is being sexually harassed by his boss, played by Jennifer Aniston.  Day takes over this movie from his opening scene - he is a truly funny actor with tons of charisma and screen-presence.  His character in this movie is almost exactly the same as the guy he plays in Sunny and I do wonder if he can pull off a different trick.  Bateman is really good as well, but he continues to be cast as the quasi-straight-man in these types of movies.  Sudeikis, who you know from SNL, is also quite funny here.  He is the one actor who I was not a huge fan of going in to this movie, but I was pleasantly surprised.
  So the three guys hate their bosses (Aniston, Colin Farrell and Kevin Spacey) and want to kill them.  Simple enough story.  Don't go to this movie with the expectations of being swallowed up by riveting storytelling, clever twists and meaningful character evolution - go to this movie to see three funny guys have a boatload of fun together on-screen.  This movie is probably 15 or 20 minutes too long, but the film-makers threw enough celebrity cameos our way to keep it interesting.  (Ron 'Tater Salad' White, Detective Bunk from The Wire, The Old Spice Guy, Donald Sutherland, Jamie Foxx, Bob Newhart, the mother from Modern Family, just to name a few) 
  Aniston is shockingly filthy dirty in her role as a sexually inappropriate dentist.  Foxx, who I pretty much loathe, did make me laugh a bit in his five-minute role as murder consultant Dean 'Motherfucker' Jones.  Farrell does his best 'Big Ern' McCracken impersonation (see below).  Spacey is so-so in his role as Bateman's unbearable boss.    
  Horrible Bosses is essentially The Hangover, only with funnier actors.  It is pretty obvious to compare Bateman to Bradley Cooper (Bateman is funnier, and it's not close); Day to Zach Galifianakis (Day is funnier, and it's not close); Sudeikis to Ed Helms (Helms, admittedly, wins by a landslide).  This film uses the same formula as The Hangover, but uses it more creatively and with much more gusto.  

Farrell in Horrible Bosses

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