Horrible Bosses (2011)

Rating: 8/10 (12 December 2011)

Horrible Bosses takes a trio of idiots and has them trying to kill their bosses. Sometimes stupid characters can be ever so annoying, but here the slapstick and one-liners are bountiful enough to make them likable. It is also clear that these guys are certainly no killers, making it fun to see them fail considerably. Bateman is tortured by his boss Spacey, Sudeikis has to deal with Farrell's paranoid coke head, and Day is sexually assaulted by Aniston. Each of the people playing the bosses really hits the nail on the head, though Farrell just isn't in it enough. The film never took itself as dark as I wanted, but this comes from a guy that loves Very Bad Things. I was also unsure if Aniston's role was really necessary. Not that she was bad, but the writers seemed to have a hard time including her, and even her conclusion seemed tacked on as an afterthought. Overall though I was far from disappointed, as this gave me the most consistent amount of laughs I've had in quite some time.