Remember when Vince Vaughn was funny? Think about this: what was the last Vince Vaughn movie you remember seeing? Okay, I’ll give you the Google movie (for the record, that movie is called “The Internship,” and it wasn’t all that great).
No, the last time Vince Vaughn truly was funny was just before the Jennifer Aniston Experiment, and while I’d likely trade a decade or so of career success for a romp with Jen myself, it was just before “The Break-Up,” that Vaughn had what you’d call a runaway hit. That was a little movie called “Wedding Crashers.” Since then he’s had small parts in dramas like “Into the Wild,” dabbled in TV’s “True Detective” (a tremendous show, but not exactly known as a tour-de-force for our man), and toiling in “comedies” like “The Watch,” “Couples Retreat,” “Four Christmases” and “Fred Claus.”
His latest, “Unfinished Business,” sounds as much like a rallying cry as it does a movie title. Co-starring James Franco’s little brother Dave (who was more recently in the Zac Efron/Seth Rogen flick “Neighbors”), and, inexplicably, Tom Wilkinson (a Serious Actor, with movies like “Selma, “The Conspirator,” and “Michael Clayton”), “Business” is about a small-business owner (Vaughn), who goes on the worst/greatest business trip in the history of good/bad business trips. Sex, drugs, violence, and other debauchery are sure to follow.
Whether “Business” will bring Vaughn back to prominence or be just another forgotten entry in his filmography is unclear, but Vaughn needs to bring it back a little and break his streak, before he becomes another of those “what happened to that” guys?
