If you value quality filmmaking, stay as far
away from this film, Get a Job, as
you can. It’s about a
heart-breaking event that far too many people are experiencing today—losing
their job—and this movie wants to make a comedy of that; moreover people’s
getting jobs in the end has no logical bearing on their attempts to get a job
or their performance once landing one.
It’s a shame that it wastes an excellent cast on a silly story.
A group of guys live in a rented house smoking
bongs, playing video games, reading porn, drinking beer, and in between
applying for jobs. Will (Teller)
is one of these and in a serious relationship with Jillian (Kendrick) who has
just secured a job she is excited about.
She is not featured much in the film, except that when she comes to live
in the house she is stereotypically cleaning it up and eventually gets drawn
into the boys’ activities.
Will is set up to be one of the wonder boys in
the action, and although it doesn’t appear he does much of substance, he gets
hired by a boss who was impressed with one of his videos about a pimp, and he
is subsequently promoted by a controlling, flirtatious, bossy woman (again, a
stereotype) (Harden). He has
doubled his salary in no time.
To pull in the older crowd, we learn about
Will’s father (Cranston), who loses his senior position after 30 years at a
company, and Will begins to offer his videotaping services to assist him in his
search for something new.
Get a Job
doesn’t really have a message—at least I couldn’t detect one. There is a harangue about school
children getting awards for doing nothing, a glance at someone developing an
app that allows someone to stalk someone else, and a bit about one of Will’s
roommates making it big on Wall Street and being told not to worry about losing
50 million dollars—just to get back to work and earn it back. The final outcome seems to be that you
can make it big if you work in the porn business.
Get
a Job needs to be canned.
Grade: F By Donna
R. Copeland
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