Horrible Bosses

“When Your Job Blows”

“Horrible Bosses” is a laugh-out-loud comedy about murder and sexual harassment in the workplace. There are 3 bosses, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston and Colin Farrell, and the 3 employees who want them dead, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day.

The 3 employees enlist the help of Jamie Foxx (an ex-con for committing crimes against Ethan Hawke) to serve as their murder guru advisor. The 3 murder plots become entangled with hilarious results.

Darker, edgier and sexually raunchier than the similarly themed “Nine To Five” in which 3 secretaries conspire to murder their boss, “Horrible Bosses” is at least 3 times funnier than that 1980 film.

In the tradition of “The Hangover” and this year’s “Bridesmaids”, “Horrible Bosses” tries hard to top the crude sexual humor in those films, and at times succeeds. But there’s plenty of standard sit-com hilarity as well. The 3 fish-out-of-water criminal-to-be’s argue and bicker with a Neil Simon-esque sarcasm that keeps the laughometer pumped up to eleven.

DVD Double Feature:

Kevin Spacey played this horrible boss character once before. In the brilliant movie-biz comedy “Swimming With Sharks” from 1994. He really is the same character in both films, but watch the earlier film and see his Buddy Ackerman be even more horrible to his new assistant played by Frank Whaley.