This funny, well-written movie is worth about 7.5. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughan are great, as usual.
It's based on the theme of "young geeks v. down-and-out older fun dudes". The two groups learn some life lessons from each other: old dudes adapt to the cyberworld; young geeks learn to drop their poses and live life a little. The message is that you need more than intelligence and tech savvy to get by.
I have no idea whether the portrayal of Google and Google internship was realistic. It certainly felt realistic to me, although it also felt like a 90 minute Google commercial.
The filmmakers did a good job in giving the impression that young geeks live in a very different kind of world and speak a foreign language. If you don't know what "muzzletalk" and "you are my khaleeshi" mean, you'll identify with the Wilson and Vaughan characters.
I thought Max Minghella did a great job playing the evil geek villain. Isn't it great how all Hollywood villains have British accents? A lucrative niche, cornered.
This film didn't blow me away, but I did laugh and I think it's worth seeing.
It's based on the theme of "young geeks v. down-and-out older fun dudes". The two groups learn some life lessons from each other: old dudes adapt to the cyberworld; young geeks learn to drop their poses and live life a little. The message is that you need more than intelligence and tech savvy to get by.
I have no idea whether the portrayal of Google and Google internship was realistic. It certainly felt realistic to me, although it also felt like a 90 minute Google commercial.
The filmmakers did a good job in giving the impression that young geeks live in a very different kind of world and speak a foreign language. If you don't know what "muzzletalk" and "you are my khaleeshi" mean, you'll identify with the Wilson and Vaughan characters.
I thought Max Minghella did a great job playing the evil geek villain. Isn't it great how all Hollywood villains have British accents? A lucrative niche, cornered.
This film didn't blow me away, but I did laugh and I think it's worth seeing.