"Horrible Bosses" Reviewed (More or Less)

Low concept rip on Hitchcock's "Strangers On A Train" as middle brow yucker starring Jason Sedeikis, Charlie Day and Jason Bateman as the friends with horrible bosses they decide to off.

I know what you're expecting: elaborate murder plots that go wrong. Well, forget it. You're gonna get elaborate ideas for plots to commit murder that go wrong.

None of it makes any sense and none of it makes less sense than Charlie Day running in repulsion from Jennifer Anniston. In what amounts to the stupidest scene in movie history, Jennifer, who is sexually harassing Charlie, sits in a white doctors coat and nothing else and Charlie is repulsed. I don't know why Jennifer would agree to appear in this nonsense.

Kevin Spacey starts off like the boss from hell and ends up a straight up psychotic.  And Colin Farrell as a coke head son of the owner is quite literally unrecognizable.

Some of it is funny, Charlie saves the life of one of the guys they are trying to kill, that's funny. But the rest is tedious nonsense with no connection to the world anybody lives in.

Spoon's "The Underdog" plays over the opening credits and the Heavy's "How Do You Like Me Now" plays a major role.

Movie: C+

Music: B

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