A Few Promising Comedies

Let's start with the most mainstream of these comedies, The Internship, starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn.  These two will forever be enshrined into my personal comedic hall of fame for their epic performances in Wedding Crashers (2005).  These two displayed an onscreen chemistry that rivals most, and that chemistry resulted in one of the funniest movies to date.  In this new comedic combination the two actors find themselves out-of-work, middle-aged salesmen, whose long term experience in a recently liquidated company equates to little in the current technology-filled workplace.  The two take a risk and go out for an internship at one of the most well-known dot coms in history, Google.  From the beginning the two men are outcasts in a company full of teens and twenty year old prodigies, and it looks like plenty of laughs will result from such a scenario.  Check out the trailer and see if you're as excited as I am:

My next suggestion also looks hilarious, in an off-beat, dark humor type of way.  What originally caught my eye with this film is one of the main characters, David Cross, who in my mind stands as one of the funniest men in the television and movie industry.  The film begins with a would-be normal occurrence: a couples brunch.  This social gathering quickly turns into the perfect storm when one of the couples announces their impending divorce.  Following that cataclysmic news the group finds out that some chemical explosions in their town would kill them all within a few days, leading to complete pandemonium.  I'm usually not attracted to these kind of movies or this kind of humor, but I think this movie has a lot of promise, and I will likely watch it illegally on the internet being that my accessibility to movie theaters that show smaller independent movies is nearly non-existant in Israel.  Anyway, here's the trailer:

The Way Way Back like the previous two suggestions appears to be a winner.  Something about Steve Carrell as an asshole just makes me curious, as Carrell usually plays a funny and awkward character who is easily lovely because of his geeky awkwardness.  This film follows a teenaged boy whose divorced or widowed (not sure) mother starts to date Carrell, who immediately kills the little element of self-esteem that this teen has left.  The family goes to spend the summer with at some destination town where the teenaged boy, Duncan, yeah I should probably use his name, does all that he can to make his summer livable.  He finds work at a local waterpark where some of his male superiors give him advice and build up his confidence to eventually give him the courage to take on life and face his antagonist, his mother's boyfriend aka Steve Carrell.  I think it looks fun and cute, and I'll be willing to take a chance on it.  Comes from the same people who made Juno and Little Miss Sunshine, both winners in my book.