video review : Horrible Bosses

video review : Horrible Bosses

This is a movie a lot of working people can relate to. The main characters, men with white-collar jobs, hate their bosses for good reason. Even Dale, a dental assistant who’s sexually harassed by his hot chick boss, is justified because he wants to remain monogamous to his fiancée. Those constant advances are supposed to be funny, sometimes they are, but the sexist double standard they take advantage of isn’t lost on me.

As far as malice goes, the dentist is by far the least horrible of the three bosses. She is at least attracted to Dale in a positive way. His two best friends, Nick and Kurt, have to put-up with bosses who seem to hate them right back. Sitting in a bar one day, the three goofballs come-up with the idea to kill their bosses. Once that plot point is set, you’re hooked in, waiting to see how everything is going to turn-out in the end.

Too bad the story doesn’t go for real suspense. It’s built upon a simple yet potentially brilliant concept that could’ve worked wonders in a serious movie. As a comedy, one that’s consistently almost funny but never really funny, everything from how horrible the bosses are to how the workers go about planning to kill them is caricatured to unrealistic proportions. The ending you wait an hour and a half for is especially ridiculous.

my rating : 3 of 5

2011

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