Horrible Bosses (2011)

We’ve all been there. You are trying to work hard, earning an honest living, and one element makes your life at work hell: your Boss. You then keep imagining how better you life would be without your boss.
This is the basic concept of Horrible Bosses. We follow three friends who have some of the worst bosses around: Kevin Spacey, Collin Farrell and Jennifer Aniston. One is a power-crazy tyrant, the other is a doped-up douche bag, and the last is a nymphomaniac. (exactly how the last one works, I still do not get it)
After pushing our friends to the limit, they decide to try and get rid of their bosses. Hilarity then ensures as things don’t exactly go to plan. On the face of it a very basic plot, but wait, there is an interesting twist! The outcome is to be expected as this is still a good ol’ buddy movie, but just how it is reached is not exactly what you’d think. In a way, the three protagonists’ stupidity helped them out (and one guardian angel, but that’s giving too much away)
This is a very good movie, though not Laugh Out Loud funny as say Hangover was (another bro-threesome-romance movie, by the way). Every single character is funny in their own way (except maybe PJ Byrne’s character who is more annoying than amusing, but we can attribute that to Byrne himself). Some of the actors play outside their comfort zone and are pretty good at it (trust me, you won’t watch Friends or In Bruges the same way ever again!).
On the comedy side, there is nothing new here. Seth Gordon seemed to have stuck to the motto, “If it works, why change it?” A lot of the jokes are fairly obvious, but still very enjoyable, and almost all are attributed to the characters’ stupidity (“Open the door! -Okay, how’s my hair?”)
So on the face of it, a very amusing movie, however, don’t go expecting anything new here. Horrible Bosses seems to use all the usual jokes, with a new plot. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not bad, just Business as Usual.

3.5/5

Loved: Actors’ roles, humour, new story
Hated: Nothing new on the comedy side