Ensofter Overrated and overhyped
BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See
Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.
Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
ziraprod This is the strangest comedy I have ever seen. See it just because of that.... funny or not....
PeachHamBeach This is the kind of comedy film that my brother and some friends like. It's slapsticky and vulgar, and sometimes that works for me (i.e. DETROIT ROCK CITY). Produced by Will Ferrell (who also has an important small role here) the comedy is either hit or miss, but mostly miss for me.I'm not saying it's a bad movie. I'm just saying with my particular sense of humor, it doesn't really work. My brother would tell you this is a 10 star film. Because his humor is different than mine.I like "frat girl" comedies rather than "frat boy-ish" ones. I mainly watched this because I like Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, Jordana Spiro, Kathryn Hahn, James Brolin, Charles Napier and of course Jonathan Sadowski...but overall the story and the writing disappointed me. It was just one of those ridiculously vulgar comedies that didn't make me laugh much at all.
Neddy Merrill Neal Brennan's "Hard R" entry into the market niche dominated by hits such as "The Hangover" (both the original and the sequel as they were the same movie) and "Bridesmaids" (anyone know if they are reshooting that and calling it "Bridesmaids II"?). The film's low marks on review sites reflects a feminized and politically correct critiquing public as much as it represents serious quality deficits in the film. This is not to argue the film always works. Most problematic is Kathryn Hahn's pedophile "Babs" whose interest in 10 year old boys is still not funny even though she is a woman. However other tropes work well. Ed Helms plays a middle age boy band aspirant - a very funny foil to Jeremy Piven's protagonist. The always entertaining Ken Jeong basically plays not-the-white-guy with an enjoyable ethnic isolation. The plot conceit - that this is the "Bad News Bears" if they were car dealers complete with training montages, pep talks and bickering individuals coming together as a team - also works well. It also achieves the bitter tone that recent films such as George Clooney's "Up in the Air" attempted. In short, not great but not as awful as it looks.
thesar-2 You know, a lot of my friends and work peers think I'm too hard on the movies. Too negative. That I don't just sit back, leave my brain at the door and enjoy the movie, because, you must realize, they've never hated a movie or had a bad experience at the cinema, ever. If they ran their own review site, they'd rate every single movie as 5/5 stars and you know what? They would be the studio's best friend and probably appear on more than a dozen movie posters with their stinking thumbs up. Despite all that, perhaps I might agree with them a little; perhaps it's time to lighten up a bit.So, I watched The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard and I have to say: why start disappointing my fans now? This movie sucked. It had such talent at hand, so many (enormously missed) opportunities for humor and the number one (Jeremy "Ari Gold" Piven) person to pull off the ultimate sale, not just for the poor car-customers in the movie, but to the audience that this movie is worth its ticket price. Not only could he sell an ice cube to a South Park character in hell, he couldn't even get into the top 5 for its opening box office weekend.We have somewhat smooth talking Don (Piven) leading a sales team from town-to-town to reenergize failing car dealerships, and since you know he never thinks about settling down, you then know exactly where this movie is headed.He lands in a no-nothing town in California, falls for an already spoken for daughter and works the closeted father into selling all cars on the lot in order to save the family-run business. Yes, that's right; they actually used a 1970s sitcom idea (mostly used in The Brady Bunch) for the entire movie.In this economy, say for the past 4 years, this should've been the ideal escapism. Again, they had tremendous opportunities for laughs, and went for either the obvious, juvenile humor or just let the moment with my mouth agape at the wasted scene. In addition, the fully booked cast, most of the regulars from movies like The Hangover mostly stood around and looked like they were improvising everything since they basically had no script to go by.I will it, there were a few small laughs – mostly with Ferrell's cameo, but with what could've been PIven's huge break-through into starring roles – this role was made for him!! – even he looked bored. Or anxious to leave the lot and go back to HBO.Skip it. I'd almost rather have the used-car dealer lie to me than attempt to make me laugh.
