Horrible Bosses - 3 stars out of 10

Horrible Bosses - 3 stars out of 10

"Horrible Bosses" is another raunchy black comedy that doesn't come off as very funny and has more uncomfortable moments than entertaining ones (like "The Hangover").  I can't remember who recommended this one to me but I could have been completely content without ever seeing this film.  The concept is a good one, similar to Hitchcock's "Strangers On a Train" (and I found it funny that they actually referenced this in the film); however, with expletives bolded in huge letters on the screen to describe the bosses, it quickly became obvious that this film would lack the depth and development of a Hitchcock film.  The story actually did develop nicely and took some interesting turns, but the entire thing was so unnecessarily dirty that you could hardly notice.  Jason Bateman is great playing the role that he does so well (Michael Bluth from "Arrested Development," just in a different story), while Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day were just alright.  I was disappointed in Jennifer Aniston for taking this role - she is better than this and this could be an image-killer for the rest of her career.  Jamie Foxx's performance was inspired... but you probably won't notice as the writers make his character into a joke by including the F-word in his name.  Nobody will be saying "Hey, did you see how awesome Foxx was?"  They'll all be saying "Can you believe that one of the characters was named MotherF*****!?!?!?"  Again, unnecessary but included for the sake of being dirty.  I am impressed with Colin Farrell - I barely reconized him.  But notice that I have trouble saying that anything in this film was good, since it focused on being offensive instead of doing a quality job of telling its story.  There are much better comedies out there that don't submit its audience to a stream of profanity and poor racist humor in exchange for such little reward.  See one of those.