Review: Horrible Bosses

Review: Horrible Bosses

Rating: **1/2

Nonna's Rating: $$

Rotten Tomatoes: 69%

Audience: 82%

It's not a great comedy version of Strangers On a Train. It's not even as good as Throw Momma From the Train, but it has enough hilarious moments and wildly funny performances to make it worth watching. Three guys, trapped in their jobs, have horrible bosses. Jason Bateman (Nick Hendricks) suffers under the manipulative tyranny of Kevin Spacey (Dave Harken) at his nastiest -- a real tour de force. Jason Sudeikis (Kurt Buckman) loves his job at a family run firm -- until the patriarch dies and his coke-addled son who is bent on destroying the business takes over (an almost unrecognizable Collin Farrell as Bobby Pelitt). Charlie Day (Dale Arbus), a recently engaged dental assistant is terrorized by his dentist boss Dr. Julia Harris (Jennifer Aniston in a role that may save her from playing sweet girls next door in formulaic romantic comedies in the future.)

The three working schlubs decide their bosses need to be removed from the face of the earth. They engage the services of Jamie Foxx (another spot-on performance), whom they imagine to be a street-wise hitman. It all goes south from there. The film drags in the middle, but the dialogue is more clever than average and the audience spent a good deal of time laughing out loud. It's not for everybody: lots and lots of four-letter words and plenty of sexual and gross-out humor.

Nonna's Ratings:

$$$$ = Worth paying the Friday evening price
$$$= Worth paying the Matinee price

$$= Worth a rental
$ = Wait for cable
# = Skip it