The good moments are very funny but it is so uneven

Rating: 6/10 (13 October 2012)

This film warrants a much higher rating than I have given it for its very funny moments and that is because sometimes it just lets things slip. Perhaps I am just asking too much but if I just read some parts of the script to myself I can make it sound funny whereas in the film it seems to fall flat.
Jennifer Anniston is a revelation, Kevin Spacey is bloody brilliant, Charlie Day is excellent, Jamie Foxx is part perfect and Colin Farrell camps it up like the best. The rest are chiefly okay but, in parts, do the sliding I referred to earlier. The script is better than the movie, a work of art, and with several laugh out loud moments.
The premise is probably central to all our lives - what to do with the boss from hell - but is compounded by the characters themselves since they are just not good enough to be horrible bosses if you understand my meaning. But they do kid themselves they are up to the task of relieving themselves of their nemesis and this is when the film begins to go where the comedy can come thick and fast.
This is not a must see film but it is a good comedy. I just wish a Tina Fey may have appeared somewhere to help with delivery.
Six out of ten but moments when it reaches ten out of ten.