Review of The Intern (2010) by Joel M — 01 Aug 2016

*** Average.

I am internally grateful that you are taking a few minutes out of your day to read my cheesy review of Writer-Director Nancy Meyers' comedy "The Intern". I hope you make it through this puntership with flying colors. Anyways, the movie stars Robert De Niro as Ben Whittaker. Ben is a 70 year old widower who is living out retired days, but needs to fill a void. He comes across an opportunity to be an intern in a senior citizens' internship program for a start-up fashion online company. Anne Hathaway co-stars as Jules, the Founder of the company who at first is reluctant to work with an older crowd, but then takes a genuine liking to Ben as not only a dependable intern, but a father figure. Of course, there are conflicts that are incorporated into the film that causes their relationship some challenges, and Jules' own relationship with her husband. I admired how Meyers directed the first hour of the movie, but then it looked like "The Intern" ran out of steam during the second half with too many elongated scenes; and that is why I could not give "The Intern" a review promotion. I did like De Niro as Ben, and Hathaway as Jules was not too shabby either. "The Intern" was 2 hours long, it didn't have to be. This intern could have done it's job in a sheer 90 minutes, but it stayed for not-needed overtime; and for that I can't highly recommend for you to hire "The Intern" into your movie watch company.