RAN­DALL SUMAIRS­INGH

Most peo­ple have a boss that they would re­al­ly love to kill-fig­u­ra­tive­ly speak­ing of course. In the film Hor­ri­ble Boss­es, how­ev­er, the main char­ac­ters are be­ing quite se­ri­ous about their mur­der­ous as­pi­ra­tions. In their de­fence, they are very pro­voked by their boss­es. To bet­ter ex­plain-Nick Hen­dricks' (Ja­son Bate­man) boss, Dave Harken (Kevin Spacey), is an evil psy­choman­ic who frames and ma­nip­u­lates his em­ploy­ees for self­ish gain. Kurt Buck­man's (Ja­son Sudeikis) boss, Bob­by Pel­litt (Col­in Far­rell), is a self-cen­tered, ill-man­nered play­boy, who couldn't care less about the com­pa­ny his dad left him or the work­ers in it.

The third friend, Dale Ar­bus (Char­lie Day), has the most unique is­sue. His boss, Dr Ju­lia Har­ris (Jen­nifer Anis­ton), is sex­u­al­ly ha­rass­ing him at the of­fice-what's worse is that he's en­gaged to be mar­ried. On a per­son­al note, I apol­o­gize, but if my boss was Jen­nifer Anis­ton and she was try­ing to sex­u­al­ly as­sault me, I wouldn't be think­ing about killing her. Ei­ther way, all three of these friends de­vise a plan to do-in their in­di­vid­ual em­ploy­ers. With help from Jamie Foxx's char­ac­ter Dean Jones (known by a name that can­not be men­tioned in this news­pa­per), they set out to their task.

In my view the movie is slow to start, but with good rea­son. The be­gin­ning, though long-wind­ed and slight­ly un­in­ter­est­ing, is a great lead-up to the non­sen­si­cal af­ter­math. I have to ad­mit that Hor­ri­ble Boss­es had me laugh­ing for the en­tire du­ra­tion. Over­all, this movie is very en­ter­tain­ing. It is a great movie for a Trinida­di­an au­di­ence, be­cause we just love bac­cha­nal. In fact, this film re­mind­ed me strong­ly of lo­cal comedic plays, like those by Ray­mond Choo Kong and Learie Joseph. This film re­minds us that even though boss­es may give trou­ble, we have it easy in com­par­i­son to these char­ac­ters.