10 Movies That Are Nothing More Than Feature Length Commercials
6. Google Is The Happiest Place On Earth - The Internship (2014)
In 2005, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson teamed up to bring the world the uproarious comedy, The Wedding Crashers. Audiences turned out in droves to watch Wilson and Vaughns hilarious onscreen chemistry. Wilsons laconic southern drawl and Vaughns rapid-fire delivery proved to be a perfect match and helped propel the feature to a worldwide box office tally north of 200 million dollars. Nearly a decade later, ubiquitous Internet search engine Google tapped the duo to help spread brand awareness via a largely laugh-less comedy entitled The Internship. The Internships plot concerns two down on their luck salesmen, played by Wilson and Vaughn, who attempt to land a job at the hugely successful corporation. Filmed on location at Googles headquarters and featuring a hundred real-life Google employees as extras, the Internship plays out like an infomercial unapologetically celebrating Googles business model. The plot involves Wilson and Vaughn trying to prove their Googlieness to the powers that be at Google. The usually irreverent duo heap nothing but praise on the company throughout the run time, referring to it as the Garden of Eden and a place thats a million times better than any amusement park. Google itself had creative input on the feature, vetoing a gag in the script that called for a Google designed self-driving car to crash because it would paint their product in a negative light. Critics revolted against this thinly disguised feature length ad for Google, giving the film 35% on Rottentomatoes.com.
