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‘Horrible Bosses’ employs abused theme of the year

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By Colin Covert

Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

If you are bright enough to count your change at the popcorn stand, you are too smart to see “Horrible Bosses.”

This misbegotten mess mashes the “three nitwits on an adventure” template of the “Hangover” movies into a workplace comedy-slash-vigilante fantasy.

With indifferent direction, repetitive action and gags that belong in the Comedy Ancient History Museum, this dreary, joke-thin film is pitched well south of the lowest common denominator. Somewhere around Antarctica, perhaps.