I wish my dentist looked like Jennifer Aniston!

Rating: Null/10 (18 July 2011)

Let's be honest a lot of men would at that...and also let's be honest about the fact that at one point in time we have all worked for or at least encountered in the workplace the "horrible bosses" of this movie's name sake. Case-in-point, myself...12 years in my job and invariably I have seen some form or incarnation of the portraits painted of the bosses, supervisors and co-workers in this hilarious comedy! "Horrible Bosses" evokes a lot of the same feelings I had when I watched the now comedy classic "Office Space" and its more subdued but still good companion "Extract". I mean this as a compliment. It just killed me at how accurate a view of the people which populate an office or any other work setting, those movies captured. "Horrible Bosses" easily accomplishes that same threshold.
Sure, the nastiness of the antagonists is exaggerated and inflated, but the kernel of truth upon which it is based is unmistakable! The cast is remarkable Jason Bateman and Jason Sudeikis are solid, but to me Charlie Day reserves the biggest portion of the laughs! He feels really oppressed and abused, a feeling that is amplified by his companions' outright dismissal of his plight at the hands of the nutty and crazy Julia, his boss (and one of the sexiest dentists I have ever seen...). He is a man that has been constantly walked over, mistreated and seen as a weakling and push-over, especially as he says because his goal in life has always been to "be a husband".
The movie's quality would have been seriously hampered had the supporting cast been any less. Just seeing Colin Farrell's visage in front of my eyes solicits laughs, his entire appearance and demeanour is prime rate, and one can tell that he had a lot of fun with his character. Kevin Spacey, well he is Kevin Spacey, always top-notch, and here thankfully channelling some of the maniacal streak he displayed in "Swimming With The Sharks" another seminal take on workplace torture and enslavement...LOL! Jennifer Aniston in this movie, is the Jennifer Aniston I would like to see more of in other movies. She is ballsy, crazy, demanding, weird, nasty, explicit and really, really horny, which makes for a hilarious character! Instead of doing all the mindless and pointless romantic comedies she has made recently, she should perhaps focus more on these off-kilter roles, because they suit her, again I don't mean this as an insult! Her turn in "Horrible Bosses" was as good or perhaps better than Cameron Diaz's as the pot-smoking, sex-crazed, foul-mouthed teacher in "Bad Teacher".
All in all a good comedy to go along with "Bad Teacher" and "Bridesmaids, and an over-all relief from the drone-like-assembly-line feel of the Summer box office.