And you thought your boss was bad.

Rating: 7/10 (18 October 2011)

Horrible Bosses is one of the funniest movies I've seen this year, but it's also one of the most frustrating.
The story is pretty simple. It's about three friends (Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis) who have three different bosses (Colin Farrell, Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Spacey) who are making their lives a living hell in different ways. It gets to the point where the three guys get so frustrated that they decided to try to find a hit-man to off their superiors. That's when the shenanigans start.
When Horrible Bosses focuses on the trio of bosses, it's absolutely hilarious. All three of then steal the show in their own ways, be it Spacey's pure evil, Farrell's childishness and coke-fueled hedonism, or Aniston's super-charged sexual harassment (Charlie Day gets no sympathy from me). Their part in all of this is relatively small, though, with most of the time spent on the three main guys deciding to go through with their plan and doing "recon". And without the bosses involved there are long stretches of jokes that fail, are recycled from other movies, or just go on too long. Bateman, Sudeikis and Day are funny, but they're just playing slight variations of characters they do so often, and they don't get most of the funniest lines.
Don't get me wrong, I really liked Horrible Bosses. It just had the potential to be even better if the three funniest people in it (Spacey, Farrell and Aniston) would have been given more time to shine. Still, good movie.