'Horrible Bosses' a hilarious adult comedy

Thursday, July 14, 2011

I've noticed that theatrically-released comedies tend to mirror a single generation's maturation process. Pleasant, G- and PG-rated family comedies fill the cineplexes until someone makes a more grown-up comic take on the genre, usually a turn towards less-genial wisecrackery and a little more bodily function humor. Then those naughty PG-13 stories dominate the listings until they eventually cede to more explicit (and R-rated) adult comedies, which allow the target audience (by now ranging in age from late-teens to twenty-somethings) to view just enough sex and drug and bathroom humor to feel like they've seen something their parents would blanch at and/or foam about. But then time passes as it has wont to do, and the audience's interests give way to gentler PG-13 rom-coms, which allow them to be thinking more tender thoughts of hearth and home as they settle into those respective parental roles they hadn't considered in prior years. By this phase of life, they've become much more receptive to the pleasant, non-threatening family comedy (again rated G or PG) -- because they sure-as-shootin' don't want their kids watching the stuff they watched.

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