By Alexander Balzano

The Intern was a unique, lovable movie and definitely a good date movie.

The film opens with Robert DeNiro as a retired widower who is, in fact, a lonely character withnot many friends and a distant family. Wanting more of a purpose in life, he applies for a senior citizeninternship being offered by a rapidly-expanding hipster and Apple-esque fashion design company. Thecompany is the brainchild of Anne Hathaway’s character, who is a passionate, self driven, almostfemale version of Steve Jobs (see all of the Apple analogies here?). Robert DeNiro is assigned to beHathaway’s personal intern and his exceedingly sweet, responsible nature clashes with her go-to,condescending nature, which results in a feel-good buddy comedy.

This is definitely a movie to see to get some laughs and otherwise just relax with the relativelyeasy tone of the movie. The Intern did turn out to be less comical and eventful as I had anticipated.What I wish the film would have explored more is the development of a more comical dialogue, as wellas focused more on the personality clashes between DeNiro’s old-fashion gentleman attitude with therest of the younger cast.

One of my favorite take-aways from this film was the impressive casting. Opposite DeNiro andHathaway was Pitch Perfect/Workoholics’ Adam Devine, Papertown’s Nat Wolf, and Girls’ AndrewRannells. The mix of the younger current cast – many of whom have risen to prominence within the lastfew years – paired with the experienced Robert DeNiro made the film a really cool clash of eras.