Jennifer Aniston is reportedly taking a year off from acting to “enjoy herself” or as I like to call it a year from making “crappy movies”. According to US Weekly, the actress won’t take on any new projects for the next 12 months (must be nice).
The ‘Friends’ star has appeared regularly on screen since 2009, starring in blockbusters ‘Marley & Me’, ‘He’s Just Not That Into You’ and ‘Just Go With It’. Her forthcoming movies ‘Horrible Bosses’ and ‘Wanderlust’ are also expected to perform strongly at the box-office. However, an insider close to the star has revealed, “Jen’s taking a year off from work to enjoy herself”. After her brief hiatus, Aniston is likely to begin work on is ‘The Goree Girls’ – her production company’s project about singers in a women’s prison. The actress is looking to enlist new beau Justin Theroux to work on the script, with a source explaining, “She wants to collaborate with [Justin Theroux]. She’s impressed by his ability to find humour in dry material”.Jennifer Aniston, considered to be one of the highest grossing stars in Hollywood, rose to fame playing ‘Rachel Green’ on ‘Friends’. The role landed her an Emmy Award and a GOLDEN GLOBE.
Word on the street is ‘Horrible Bosses’ is absolutely DREADFUL. The Hollywood Reporter said it best in an absolutely hilarious review!
Warner Bros. and New Line’s attempt to find out exactly where the bottom is for R-rated comedy these days results in Horrible Bosses, which probably isn’t horrible enough to excite younger viewers and will certainly not attract anyone else. Well, check that: The movie has a glittery cast that makes you wonder about the dynamics between actors and their representation, but that’s subject for somebody else’s head-shaking think piece. For a reviewer, the lameness of the gags and dialogue and the film’s frequent deep dives for the bottom at the expense of real comedy speak to desperation in Hollywood to figure out the audience for contemporary naughty comedy.
The film crossbreeds black comedy with raunchiness. Three yo-yos have horrible bosses. Salesman Jason Bateman is stuck with an abusive, sadist-psycho boss played by Kevin Spacey, who simply amps up his Swimming With Sharks character. Jason Sudeikis actually has a dream boss in Donald Sutherland, but Sutherland, having apparently read the script, has the good sense to die after one sequence, which leaves Sudeikis at the mercy of his boss’ coke-head, party-till-you-drop son (Colin Farrell).
The third horrible boss makes no sense. Poor Charlie Day from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia must somehow get through each day as a dental assistant to a potty-mouthed nymphomaniac played by Jennifer Aniston, who craves nothing more than nonstop sex with her assistant. This is, essentially, a casting problem. Let’s just say that if you insist on casting Aniston in this role — and she, for whatever reason, actually accepts it — you have destroyed any comedy. This, for a heterosexual male, is your dream boss.
These three abused employees meet up in a bar to grouse about their bosses and to plot their murders. But they haven’t a clue how to accomplish this. They hire one dude — Jamie Foxx, still coasting on that Oscar — to be their “murder consultant,” the uncomfortable assumption here being that murder falls within the expertise of African-Americans.
Everything they try goes wrong, but ultimately — did you ever doubt it? — the Three Saps get more or less what they want.
But getting there is sheer drudgery and a lot of comedy that relies on such things as screeching cats springing across the screen when the boys break-and-enter or their bosses’ collective stupidity exceeding theirs.
Posted Wednesday, July 6th, 2011 at 3:15pm
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