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And that's no lie! Two hours for a thin veil of a flick. Two hours and when it is all over all you have is a sore butt!

The first one and one half hours could have been cut to just thirty minutes. Here's what happens - Jules, a young beautiful girl (Anne Hathaway) with a stay-at-home husband and a preschool child, has created a more than successful internet clothes shopping website. This is the opening of the story! While she's out of town and through a slight miscommunication a 'hire the seniors' program is advertised. In walks Ben (De Niro) a 70 year old retired widower, and guess what happens, he is hired as the bosses (Hathaway) intern assistant. She doesn't like him, then she tolerates him, then she likes him. What a thoughtful, charming, helpful old man he is. Then at the one hour and thirty minute point into the story something happens!

The final thirty minutes are taken up with her tears, Ben being the understanding grandfatherly advice type, and Jules husband making an ass of himself. All is resolved, happy ending, and 'you' the viewer will say "Thank Gawd it's over"!

My final word. In the character development of Jules it's pointed out in a big business article that she does something on a bicycle in the office. How many times do you see her do this? I counted once, then never again does she do it. So why was it put into the story?

Horrific movie. Shallow acting, shallow and predictable story and the whole thing is celebrating unsustainable business (all clothes of the company made in Bangladesh for sure) fused by shallow Hipster-Mutants, who are poisoning our cities today, stuck in front of their screens in generic lofts for work and for living. I don't get, why De Niro is gambling with his reputation the last decade and I don't get, why anybody should waste time and money for this retarded vision of a working life, bound to phones and displays (prominent product placement on the movie of course), doing "customer service", while the real work is done by people in a prison of poverty. Get yourself a workshop, get yourself some dignity.

Meaningless, pointless movie about nothing. Giant waste of talent. It's 2 hours of your life you never gonna get back. Even for girls how love chick flicks this would be boring. IMDb requires me to write 10 lines about this movie, but frankly, the whole script to this movie can be described in less than 10 lines. The best description of it, is movie about nothing. A wife, mom and CEO with a cheating husband cries and sais thank you for taking me back when her husband tells her that he has cheated, but has decided that it was not that good, and is ready to end it. Who writes this ?

To Robert De Niro, please, read scripts before you decide to accept a role in the movie.

This is one of the worst movies ever, only De Niro is good,, in a way. terrible movie i am so bored to write why,, the rating for this movie made me write this "review",,, so funny.

What do you get when you combine all of the memes and clichés of our shallow, tech-obsessed post-globalisation, hipster world and then have a wise, humble, dapper and old fashioned gent (Robert De Niro) as the ever congenial retiree intern.

What's baffling is De Niro's character. He has a complete lack of anysort of antipathy or disillusionment for finding himself in that situation - being bossed around the office and managed by people who have been on this planet for a quarter of the time he has, and who are genuinely childish, stupid and unprofesional.

In the real world - this sort of business which is completely devoid of any depth or intelligence would be hard to find. Although the bad acting make this bag full of design agency clichés all the more hard to swallow. This film is like a strange alternate universe and it is indeed like watching an atomic blast slowly unfold.

Switched off twenty minutes in when I realised that these people were not behaving this way ironically, they were actually seriously attempting to portray a workplace of today.

Quite possibly the worst movie I've seen in my life.

Two things struck me about this film as awful. First, for such a huge budget film, did they really have to play the same music over and over and over and over and over again? Wasn't there funding to find someone with a sense of artistry to select better music or at least a wider variety of sounds? Second, the writing was awful and the dialog was idiotic. Wasn't the least bit interested in either of the two lead characters. I would have left before it ended, but we paid full price and I am an optimist: I kept expecting it to get better. It didn't. On the plus side, the sets and wardrobe were nice.

What wishy washy nonsense! Weak story, one-dimensional, boring stereotypical characters! Filled with endless clichés and improbable situations. Sickly sweet and unrealistic behavior of the main characters, far removed from reality. Why can't they make good movies anymore?! I suffered through 2 hours of it. I guess I was hoping for a miracle, for a twist that would elevate it above the level of a filler. But no, to the very end it kept the quality of adolescent slush with no depth or sophistication. I guess I can't expect more from an Anne Hathaway movie. What a waste of time! I recommend that you give this one a miss.

I hadn't fully grasped the meaning of the word "agony" until I went to the cinema last night and watched "The Intern". Let me start by saying that I'm by no means a cinephile, I have seen a few movies in my life and I have opinions, that's about it. What's amazing about "The Intern" is that there is not one single event unfolding on the screen that would provoke a reaction in the viewer. At some point I felt like checking people's pulses, as we had all been sitting there for more than an hour and I hadn't heard a single comment. This movie is a horrible display of stereotyped anthropology, both old and new clichés, with a sequence of facts narrated with no connection whatsoever between them. It doesn't make you cry, it doesn't make you laugh, it's just a two hour long placebo that you would watch if you were part of a control group in a lab. But at least in that case you would get some vouchers. Do not buy any snacks as you'll end up with appendicitis, cause you'll devour them all in the attempt of killing time. When you finally think the torture is over, a "twist" in the story makes you dread that you will have to watch the extra time of this stalemate between boredom and uselessness. One last warning: be ready for the cheesiest lines and shots you've ever seen. Close-up of toothbrushes to symbolize love, narrative stratagems that don't make any sense and a constant celebration of relationship in the most banal way are the main traits to this movie. The bottom line of "The Intern" is you should keep working like crazy and eat junk food, as long as you cycle in your own office, have a massive house in the heart of Brooklyn and make millions with the company you created. There is one good thing about this film though, and it was leaving the cinema to go home and watch another one.

Politically correct movie with bizarre story telling and things just working out. Need 10 million dollars? Here you go. Because it's that kind of movie.

This movie strongly promotes the meme of working for free as an intern (unpaid Labour).

I cannot imagine that the older generation will willingly volunteer for menial tasks for no reward especially when they can actually help people rather than just sell crap for somebody else, so I can only imagine that this is just an end run at persuading millennials that working for free is ultimately worth it, because, you know, corporations cannot afford to employ you, or otherwise your parents are rich enough to support you while you "buy" an advantage over poorer people who cannot afford to give up their Labour for free! It's interesting to see all the elitist assumptions that are propagated during the film, such as it's okay to take a seat in the back when it's your driver but when it's your intern you should make a pretense of sitting in the front! This film is worth watching provided you 1. Don't pay for it, and 2. Can view it cynically, and use it as a lesson in avoiding both corporatism and elitism.

Still as the intern job in the film is related marketing "fashion wear" it should be no surprise that his position is unpaid given Labour abuses in this field are the norm.

Still it's nice to give work to popular actors who need money, as opposed to young unload actors, while doling out trite, feel-good, fake-nice, trash. Sarc.

I have to wonder why this film is so popular given all I've said, but then the reviewers probably aren't the same people working in the garment industry or working unpaid internships, maybe the theme of the film is that America is a very class *unconscious* society where the poor can be ignored, or maybe there is no moral and the writers are simply elitist!

Honestly sat down to watch this with my sister, mum and partner thinking it would be a funny watch. Turned out to be the slowest film ever with no direction to it whatsoever! Great cast - thou they had to act through the worst plot and dialogue. Corny and overly sentimental throughout - had us all rolling our eyes on multiple occasions. Not sure what this movie was trying to achieve but failed on every level. So weird in places too - when she says to him your my best friend, when they sit on the bed together.. so strange. I am not sure what the other reviewers were watching! Feel like I have lost two hours of my life I can never get back!! Do not waste your time.

I watched the whole thing! My bad. I was hoping it would get better at some point but it just dragged on and on and on endlessly. Robert DeNiro deserves the worst actor category of 2015 and Hathaway is not far behind. However watching DeNiro is just embarrassing. Having gone from one of the best actors in film to possibly the worst is just hard for a movie fan to take. Can't he just retire with some dignity? Does he have to made a fool of himself with all the trash he appears in lately? Does he need money that badly? We should all have a charity fund for him rather than watch him become a grade "B" (no make that a grade "F") actor. It's hard to watch!

I'm sure a lot of people will feel good watching it but in the real world it's just not realistic.

Will make people who want that I want to be in love feeling and the I want that life Hathaway has will certainly like the movie.

Truth is life is mean and more like a Rocky Balboa movie where you get knocked down by life itself but you have to get back up and fight to get any recognition in the world.

5 minutes in and I forced myself to watch the rest of the movie. Painful and predictable. Good luck to those who rated it higher than 2. As it seems to be a rip off of the Devil wears Prada with a lot less aggression.

I watched it twice to make sure I had not actually stumbled into the twilight zone of bad movies, and guess what ? it is worse the second time. the story, characters, scripts all had me feeling like I swallowed a bottle of ipecac. the silly and corny background music really drives the point home that this thing is bad. watching the star of the deer hunter doing a lame imitation of mr.rogers is painful, and looking at bobby standing in that silly stance with the hands folded and making that mr rogers smile is just more than I can bear. maybe bobby's age is to blame ? the movie is not even worth the 10 lines that requires for a posted comment.

This debacle was at least 1 hour too long, for the middle school script.I'm still not sure there was a point to the movie. The ending came mercifully too late, and if that was an ending, the viewer has no idea. Other than betting heavily on the Seahawks...I cant imagine why Robert Deniro would have anything to do with this horrid hack job. the plot was so weak, so amazingly weak! Even the wife apologized for having set this destruction of a good evening into motion. honestly, the movie is bad on so many levels, it cant be over stated. unless you're really looking for a nap, or just had a brain tumor removed, this train wreck is going to disappoint!! Just pathetic....

Don't waste your time for watching this weak movie.

This was on HBO's so I watched. I had seen the trailer and it looked cute and a premise I'd never seen before. I could not watch more than 10 minutes of this movie. Maybe that is not giving it a fair shot, but my 10 minute rule has never failed me. If the first 10 suck the rest will most certainly be worse or way worse.In the 10 minutes I did manage to stomach I was embarrassed over the absurd rudeness of Hathaway's character. If the company decided to have this "intern program" she could at least pretend to be on board with it. Instead she is ageist and insulting and IMO not convincing. Amanda Priestly she is not. Even though Amanda Priestly was a cold hearted bitch at least she was an entertaining one. It just came across as false to me. The whole exaggerated idea that young people know everything while older people know nothing was also an insult and just wrong. Sure younger people are more in touch and in tune with technology all that is new...but older people provided they are healthy can be just as aware. Also the background music was completely annoying and reminded me of a bad 80's movie

Sad seeing Robert not knowing what he's doing in the movie

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

What happened to the world?

Is this only USA problem?

I have been reading several reviews here.

And many people gave this movie a very good note.

And even sometimes very complex reviews.

There is NOTHING complex about this movie.

Sure, Robert de Niro is Robert de Niro.

And I must say the scenario is less horrible than the one of It's complicated.

But boy, Nancy Meyers knows how to write a commercial movie.

Take the assistants, there is nothing less accurate than how they talk.

Anne Hataway seems to have found back the acting of her Disney years. Nothing true perspires from that.

This movie reminds me of Meg Ryan's best years. A good way to not think.

Yes, the movie talks about real interesting issues. But it turns them into an over-egged pudding, just like Hollywood does.

And yes, it is watchable. The same way an ice cream is eatable, a cigarette is smokable and a whiskey is drinkable.

May not be healthy but tasty.

Now I don't wanna sound too negative.

That is why I offer to leave you with titles of movies I find are a healthy way to use 2 hours with :

• Yi-Yi, a One and a Two

• Trois couleurs : Bleu

• Burnt by the sun

• La Maman et La Putain

and maybe you wanna laugh, so :

• The Meaning of Life

• The Invention of Lying

• Les Bronzés.

That's it man. Please stop feeding us this low-quality entertainment.

Deniro used to be good but acting has passed him by as he fumbles through this disaster of a movie. Stupid premise and idea for a movie. Hathaway phoned it in as well.