Horrible Bosses

Spoiler: One of these bosses gets wayy
more screen time than the others

When I look around at my fellow humans, gazing stoically at their ability to reason brilliantly and then kill each other, I notice that we all have something in common. A binding agent, if you will, that connects us all. Is it our love of Tom Hanks? Most of the time yes, but every man or woman over the age of 15 can relate to you a story about the very worst boss they have ever had. It's just a part of being human.

Horrible Bosses is based entirely around three men with the absolute worst bosses in the world, if the title didn't already give that fact away.

Nick Hendricks (Jason Bateman) is an up and coming business man. He works hard, is good at what he does and is determined to succeed. Unfortunately his boss Dave Harkin (Kevin Spacey) is basically the devil. He berates Nick for being two minutes late and laughs in his face when he finds out that Nick calls his grandmother gam gam. And Nick missed gam gam's funeral because of work. After being passed up for a big promotion that Dave promoted himself into, Nick is ready to kill his boss.

Kurt Buckman (Jason Sudeikis) is the head manager at Pellit and Son chemical company. Mr. Pellit is awesome but his son (Colin Farrell) is a raging cokehead. When Mr. Pellitt dies, his son takes over. His first request of Kurt is to trim the fat in the office. Kurt is to do this by firing the fat people. Bobby Pellit also wants to dispose the company's chemical waste in Bolivia for cheap. Kurt is ready to kill his boss.

Dale Arbus (Charlie Day) is a dental hygienist. You know, that job usually reserved for attractive woman. Dale is in a committed relationship with his fiancee. He is also a convicted sex offender, "Why would they put a playground next to a bar? I had to pee!" Dale's boss Dr. Julia Harris (Jennifer Aniston) is a raging nymphomaniac who wants nothing more than to jump Dale's bones. And by bones I mean boner, she gets pretty graphic. When Dale finds out that Julia is planning on showing his fiancee naughty pictures that she took of the two of them while he was drugged up, "Rape! That's a rape! You raped me! Rape!" "Please it wasn't even hard." "That gives me no comfort." Dale is ready to kill his boss.

Besides having the whitest names in the history of mankind, Dale, Kurt and Nick have no experience killing people. They look around for help and find it in the form of one Mother@#$%er Jones (Jamie Foxx). "Your first name is Mother@#%^er?" With his help, the boys decide to kill each others bosses and finally be happy.

I was incredibly pleased with Horrible Bosses. It was moderately funny at first and got progressively funnier as it went along until I was hoarse with laughter by the end. Whether it was some silly one-line, "I am going to inquire about that waitress's vagina." or Nick and Kurt discussing their rape-ability in jail. Dale finally settles who would be more likely to be raped.

This is a wonderful cast, Colin Farrell is the only one who gets skipped out on screen time. Kevin Spacey takes the biggest role in his terrifying manner that he approaches things. The boys are all hilarious and share the screen like good buddies should. There is nothing new here, I wouldn't call it a groundbreaking comedy, but it may be the funniest thing you see this summer. It certainly is giving Bridesmaids a run for its comedic money and most certainly blows The Hangover 2 right out of the water. If you want to laugh you won't be disappointed.

3 out of 4 stars

-Christopher O'Connell

P.S. I'd bend her over and show her the 50 states