Actors: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day
Director: Seth Gordon
Would that I wrote for something like Cahiers Du Cinema or the Village Voice - Horrible Bosses is begging to be evaluated from a Marxist perspective. Alienation from labor, bourgeois discontent, product placement, and an ending which relies on bourgeois technology. It's got it all. Plus, it's a mainstream Hollywood film.
Big Hollywood comedies are rarely 'warts-and-all' - this film feels like it has been focus grouped a thousand times. It appeals to a certain demographic - both in terms of the plot, the humor, and the actors it employs. But it made me laugh, and Kevin Spacey gets to chew on scenery with a twisted take on his character from Glengarry Glen Ross. I just wonder if studio comedies always felt so un-free; even if there does appear to be some improvisation in this film, nothing in this film feels shaggy or makes one ask the question 'Why is that scene in the movie?' And sometimes those scenes are the most fun.
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