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score 2/10
This is one of my most boring and horrible experiences in cinema.
At first I thought it was just going to be a little generic and predictable, but mostly harmless. A sub-par version of "Driving Miss Daisy" and "The Devil wears Prada".
Then, it entered the second part, and everything went to hell. Seriously, the last hour of this film felt like 4 or 5, easily, with stupid situations going absolutely nowhere, horrendous dialogues, no character development, no change at all in any of them, and lots of cryngy moments.
To summarize it, this film had so many sub-plot going on all at once that it couldn't decide what type of film it was. It was not a comedy, it was not a drama, it was not a romance, it had no meaning, no pay- off, nothing to say about old people working and their impact on their life and the effect on the younger generations, except for a few jokes at the beginning. De Niro character was way too happy to need to work there in the first place, and was this "angelic" character that everyone loves, and Hathaway was at most a stressed-out woman, nowhere near as a bad person or someone rude to her employees. In the end, the characters almost didn't change at all. At most, Anne Hathaway got to relax a bit, but that's pretty much it. There were no character arcs for any of them, and no one learns anything or changes in any way. The husband/boyfriend (don't remember if they were married or not...) is a terrible person at the beginning and was just exactly the same at the end, the little girl "struggle" to not see enough of her mom went absolutely nowhere, neither how the younger interns dealt with their lives...
This movie was horrible, with its stupid music underlining every little moment, with its horrible pacing that made the last hour feel like at least four, with its horrible message about relationship, with all his terrible cliché on old people and working women, and people in the larger sense.
There was no heartwarming moments at all, no character felt vulnerable in any way, or relatable at all. The dialogues were tremendously bad, going absolutely nowhere, bringing us nothing, no wit or enjoyment or comedy. Which is very bad for a film resting entirely on people talking.
One of the worst piece of trash I've seen in my life.
PS: I love Anne Hathaway and respect De Niro, and I enjoyed "The Holyday" from this director, so it has nothing to do with any prior prejudice against anyone in this film. If anything else, Hathaway and De Niro are the ones that made me going to this movie. Thank you, guys, really. Still like you though, actors still got to eat. Still...
Therru_Babayaga 26 September 2015
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