10 years ago today, I went to the local multiplex and watched Horrible Bosses...the Seth Gordon-directed dark comedy about three white-collar subordinates bent on exacting revenge on their supervisors for treating them, obviously, like garbage. Horrible Bosses was my favorite comedy of 2011—with the A-list cast doing a stellar job in making this flick an absolute laugh riot! The best subplot in this movie was the one between Dale Arbus (Charlie Day) and his gleefully sexual-harrassing boss, Dr. Julia Harris (Jennifer Aniston). Aniston pulled out all the stops in making Harris as sinister and carnally ravenous as possible; coming in only at second place behind the tyrannical Dave Harken, the boss of Nick Hendricks (Jason Bateman) aptly played by Kevin Spacey. Colin Farrell was hilarious as Bobby Pellit, the obnoxious son of respectable company owner Jack (Donald Sutherland), and the arch-nemesis of Kurt Buckman (Jason Sudeikis). Not to be outdone in this crime comedy was Jamie Foxx as Dean 'Motherf*cker' Jones—an ex-con who didn't mind helping Arbus, Hendricks and Buckman try to fatally whack their hated superiors.
Horrible Bosses was such an entertaining movie that I'm not surprised it received a sequel...2014's Horrible Bosses 2 which had Chris Pine and Christoph Waltz join the fold. Unsurprisingly, the sequel wasn't as funny as the original movie, but that didn't stop me from enjoying the continued antics of Bateman, Sudeikis and Day in these films. If Horrible Bosses 3 gets made (unlikely, as it's almost been 7 years since the first sequel was released), I'll be there to watch it on opening weekend. Happy Friday!
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