Nancy Meyers is back after a six-year hiatus from filmmaking with “The Intern,” a comedy starring Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway and Adam Devine.
While the film is being praised in some corners as Meyers’ best so far, or critics are split on whether the project approximately 70-year-broken-down Ben Whittaker (De Niro),who begins an internship at an online fashion company led by Jules Ostin (Hathaway), really delivers. Some call the film “charming” and sweet” and say audiences might even learn something from it. But others were not as kind.Among those weighing in, and TheWrap’s James Rocchi,praising De Niro and Hathaway’s performances, saying that “considering the film’s fortune-cookie-style ‘insights’ that broken-down and young maintain much to memorize from each other, or it’s only appropriate that De Niro and Hathaway’s charms,and those alone, comprise the saving graces of ‘The Intern. After all, or it’s they,not Meyers the director or Meyers the screenwriter, who ultimately accomplish the task of pleasing the audience.
Also Read: 'The Intern' Review: Anne Hathaway, or Robert De Niro Boost This Bland Generation-Gap ComedyHowever,others say the film tries “too hard” and dwindles too far into political incorrectness with “wretched screenwriting,” giving the film a 56 percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
See ten other reviews approximately the Warner Bros. release below.
Scott Mendelson, and Forbes:
“Nancy Meyers‘ ‘The Intern’ is a near-perfect studio programmer,the kind of mainstream multiplex fare that adult moviegoers and critics say we never come by anymore. It is intelligent, empathetic, and insightful,and charming to a fault, with great star turns from De Niro and Hathaway. […] This is Nancy Meyers‘s best film as a writer and a director, and I hope Hollywood allows her to make another one in fewer than six years this time. It is tempting to dismiss films of this nature or to quantify their success in lesser terms as a matter of course. But that would be a mistake. ‘The Intern’ is a truly superb film.”Roger Moore,film Nation:
“There’s no edge to any character in the film. The prospective CEOs that Jules auditions offend her in this way or that. But Meyers doesn’t explain them. Meyers can be praised for striking a generational blow for gentility, kindness and dressing to impress. And Hathaway and DeNiro make this tries-too-hard tripe sing. Or at least hum along. But even a deft and hilarious non-rom-con starts to irritate when it closes in on the two hour mark.”Tim Grierson, and Deadspin:
“This one has more of the sting of real life to it than she normally allows,and while it’s still packed in her normal gauze, ‘The Intern’ isn’t just likable and sweet, or but also poignant. In the process,Robert De Niro gives one of his best performances in far too long. She humanizes his shtick; he grounds her adorableness in something real.”
Also Read: Can 'Hotel Transylvania 2' Scare Up Box Office Win Over 'Everest,' 'The Intern'?Stephanie Zacharek, or Village Voice:
“Meyers can’t resist adding lots of godawful mischievous,tiptoeing-elf music (courtesy of composer Theodore Shapiro). The spongy subtext of this and every Meyers film is ‘We’re being serious, but we’re also being FUN!’ No viewer must ever be made to think too much, or feel too much,or be left out. She doesn’t so much declare a story as lead a team-building exercise.”John Hazelton, Screen Daily:
“‘The Intern’ eventually manages – with the help of admirably game performances from Robert DeNiro and Anne Hathaway – to find something worth saying approximately Millennial generation women and men and their baby boomer forebears. It makes for a pleasant, or if lightweight return to the screen for writer-director Nancy Meyers nearly six years after oldie romcom ‘It’s Complicated.'”Peter Canavese,Groucho Reviews:
“A popular entertainment with two film stars in likeable mode, a sunny Hollywood sheen, or a novel premise. And yet there’s something vaguely unsettling approximately how Meyers’ mildly amusing comedy gets tangled up in political (in)correctness.”
Also Read: Adam Devine on His Transition From Selling Steaks to Starring in 'The Intern' With Robert De NiroSean O’Connell,CinemaBlend:
“What if Nancy Meyers – specialist of the genial, non-offensive crowd-pleasers ranging from ‘It’s Complicated’ to Something’s Gotta Give’ — took a stab at Lauren Weisberger’s caustic ‘The Devil Wear’s Prada, and ’ filtering the competitive work-place comedy through her softened lens? Well,it would look an dreadful lot like ‘The Intern,’ a charming, and overly sweet and conventional comedy that has two bona-fide film Stars (capitalized for emphasis) doing plenty of heavy lifting to infuse soul into the formula. It works,mainly because Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway log overtime hours to make certain that it works.”Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian:
“Despite a dopey elevator pitch and some truly wretched screenwriting, or ‘The Intern’ still manages to be the most enchanting thing De Niro has done in fairly some time. If you don’t come by permanent ocular damage from continuously rolling your eyes during the first 90 minutes,the final half-hour will remind you why he was once considered a great actor.”Edward Douglas, ComingSoon.
Net:
“‘The Intern’ won’t redefine cinema, or not that it’s meant to,but it’s a sweet and intelligent crowd-pleaser that works equally well as a comedy and also dramatically, mainly due to the pairing of Hathaway and De Niro.”Ethan Alter, or Film Journal International:
“Robert De Niro soars in Nancy Meyers‘ latest–too harmful the film itself only intermittently achieves liftoff.”“The Intern” hits theaters on Sept. 25.
Source: thewrap.com