Horrible Bosses
My Grade: A-
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Horrible Bosses is this Summer's big comedy, ask me what it'd be this past Spring and I would have said that The Hangover Part II would've shone brighter just based of the cast chemistry from the fist movie but the sequel retreaded the first movie's plot too closely and really went too far with some of the antics, plot points, and character quirks.
Here we have Horrible Bosses, a laugh riot of a movie. In it three working stiffs run into various problems with their bosses that make their individual lives miserable. First there's Nick (Jason Bateman) an office drone who has been working hard for several years to get a promotion, he arrives at work at the crack of dawn and leaves at sunset, he's missed his beloved grandmother's funeral and has given up much in hopes to become a VP for the company he works for, when the expected announcement comes his asshole, self-serving, boss (Kevin Spacey) assumes the VP role into his own job -along with an office expansion and generous pay raise.
Next we have Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) a high-ranking manager in a father-son waste management business, he's close friends with the father but after he dies the coke-snorting son with no regard for the ADA or other worker rights laws takes over and uses Kurt to do the under-handed work in the businesses as well as possibly break environmental codes to lift profits.
Finally we have Dale, an engaged dental hygienist who is being mercilessly sexually harassed by the dentist he works for (played by a smoking hot, brown-haired, Jennifer Aniston). Yeah. He has it rough, when she calls him in to discuss their "problem" and all she's wearing are panties and a lab coat.
The three realize they're at a dead end as Nick can't get another job as he's spent 8-years in his current one and his boss vows to give poor recommendations, Kurt feels obligated to stay at the company he is at to ensure the company doesn't ruin the local environment and it stays true to the father's business standards and Dale can't leave his job due to blackmail (Aniston will show lewd pictures she has of her and Dale (taken while he was under NOS getting work done) and he can't get another job due to being a registered sex offender (he was arrested peeing in a public park late one night) so they all decide they should plot to kill their bosses under the guise of "justifiable homicide" and pay a supposed hitman $5000 to guide them through the process.
We see them steakout their bosses houses and a mix up leads them down a desperate path to save their own lives.
The three characters work very well with one another and the boss characters also do a very good job with their parts. Aniston has never been so alive, sexy, and real on the screen and Kevin Spacey is truly terrifying as the asshole boss we've all worked for at one time or another. Although it's tough to sympathize with Dale (seriously, a really hot woman wants to have sex with you and isn't hiding it in anyway? Darn!) the antics that come from that are just as funny. The movie's humor dives into the shallow end of the pool a couple of times but for the most part it remains smart and, really, a delight.
Really enjoyed this movie and is easily this Summer's comedy. Go see it.
