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| Stars stare at you to get you to see Seth Gordon's Horrible Bosses |
QUICK REVIEW:
Three friends waste their lives under three totally psychopathic bosses. They decide to kill them, but it turns out to be easier said than done.
Around once a minute throughout Seth Gordon's (Identity Thief (2013)) Horrible Bosses, we are reminded that it's an R-rated, modern, raunchy comedy by another line or action thought of as transgressive, - which becomes a bit tiring. Jonathan M. Goldstein and John Francis Daley (The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013), both) have written the script with Michael Markowitz (Becker (1999-2002)) and have not created one venerable character in the bunch.
Horrible Bosses gets away with it, because it is fairly amusing and very star-studded. Among the stars, Kevin Spacey (House of Cards (2013-15)) is awesomely cool here, while Charlie Day (Pacific Rim (2013)) is an obnoxious pain-in-the-ass, (although others actually think that he is brilliant here...!)
Watch the trailer here
Cost: Estimated 35-37 mil. $
Box office: 209.6 mil. $
= Huge hit
[Horrible Bosses opened stronger than expected with a 28.3 mil. $ opening weekend in the US, #2 behind Transformers: Dark of the Moon. It ended up making 117.5 mil. $ in the US (56 % of the total gross) and has surpassed The War of the Roses (1989, 86.8 mil. $) as the highest-grossing dark comedy in unadjusted dollars. Horrible Bosses 2 came out in 2014.]
What do you think of Horrible Bosses?
Seen the sequel?
How is it?
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