Horrible Bosses: Really just a re-working of “9 to 5” minus Dolly Parton’s breasteses, with Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, and Charles the male equivalents of Tomlin, Parton, and Fonda, as they cope with their respective bad bosses, played by Kevin Spacey as a corporate shark of the highest order, Colin Farrell as the cokehead jerk-son of the late owner, and Jennifer Aniston, the over-sexed dentist who keeps propositioning her dental assistant for sex. They hatch a plot for each to kill the other’s boss, and hilarity ensues because quite frankly, all three of them are idiots. Hilarity ensues. Loud, silly, and profane (one of the characters is named Motherf**ker Jones; Aniston’s dirty talk is a wonder to be hold, and those aren’t the only off-color moment in the picture), this film is anchored by several GREAT performances, particularly Bateman, Aniston (acting nicely against type; I‘d let her sexually harass me any day), and Spacey. But the rest of the cast is great as well, including Jamie Foxx in a small role. I laughed a lot. Director Seth Gordon also gave us the fantastic “The King of Kong” documentary from a few years back. Woodchuck sez, “Check it out.”
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