A 70-year-old widower, Ben Whittaker is bored with his daily life. Then he sees an ad for senior interns at an online fashion start-up. So he sends in an application and is hired to assist Jules Ostin, the complicated founder and CEO of the business, who shows him a whole new world...

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First there was The Internship, starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn as “old” interns working at Google and confronted by millennials who made them look like dinosaurs. Now a real dinosaur, Robert De Niro, is thrown into a cool start-up headed by Anne Hathaway, in yet another silly comedy. The Intern is really, really dumb, with nothing of interest to show or tell. Made completely by consensus, with bottom-drawer jokes, this superficial bit of entertainment seems only to exist to fund new swimming pools for its over-qualified stars. Yet another unnecessary movie from Nancy Meyers, whose benchmark at least used to be a bit higher (What Women Want, The Holiday).