"Here comes the Golden Snitch!"
"Who the f**k is THIS now?"
This somewhat extended Google advert (running just under two hours) starts worryingly with Vaughn and Wilson doing their usual tired and over-familiar characters and situations. Once they actually get to Google HQ and start the selection process for the titular internship and team up with a trio of familiarly-styled tech-geek outsiders ('The United Colours of Nerd') the movie becomes increasingly (and surprisingly) warm, good-natured and pleasing. Of course it bears no relation to the real world, it is relentlessly predictable and the comedy is a little uneven, but it is buoyed up by some lovely character moments by Dylan O'Brien, Tiya Sircar and Tobit Raphael as the would-be interns, and Shawn Levy shows he certainly knows how to control the emotional/dialogue beats in a scene. The underdogs-come-good theme is played out to its effective and crowd-pleasing conclusion, as are the unimaginative character arcs, but by the end one cannot help but feel a lot more warmly and satisfied towards this film than in the early establishing scenes.
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