[It] squanders its potential with hard-to-like characters and a largely unfunny script that relies too heavily on unnecessary crudity.
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10/23/09
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)
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Reviews Counted:93
Fresh:24
Rotten:69
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Despite the talent in front of and behind the camera, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard largely misfires, proving a squandered opportunity for all involved.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $15,000,327
Synopsis: Who is Don Ready? Salesman? Lover? Song Stylist? Semi-professional dolphin trainer? Ready is all of the above – except for a dolphin trainer. When he’s asked to help save an ailing local car... [More]
Starring: Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, James Brolin, David Koechner
Director: Neal Brennan
Reviews for The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
A shrill and lazily written wreck of a movie.
10/23/09
An SUV of a comedy: enjoy hate crimes, homophobia and terrorizing women? Then this hulking, gas-guzzling beast--completely out-of-touch with the economic climate and progressive politics--is for you!
09/11/09
The humor comes not from the picture's setup but the absurd behavior of its characters. Mr. Piven does an able variation on Ari Gold, the caustic agent from Entourage
08/28/09
A mediocre comedy that wants desperately to be "Anchorman" on a used-car lot, but can't measure up, mostly because it's so lacking in laughs
08/23/09
[It] might be a bottomless barrel of idiotic yuks. But it's not a total lemon.
08/21/09
It's a grab bag of comic ideas, but some of the gags are impressively perverse.
08/20/09
It's not that I was offended. It's that I was bored by the attempt to offend me.
08/19/09
Piven is saddled with a lame backstory about a former partner's tragic death, something about a lost son, a thoroughly forced romantic subplot, and a series of awful and increasingly desperate stabs at raunchy humor.
08/18/09
Needs Less Sentiment and More Charles Napier. But Still Rapid-Fire Funny in Nature.
08/17/09
I definitely laughed, just not enough to fully recommend it.
08/17/09
This was funny in the beginning, no question, but then it turned into I thought a sort of a very stale comedy.
08/17/09
It's possible that this appallingly awful excuse for a raunchy comedy is meant to be satirical, but I suspect it's merely shockingly incompetent, even grading on the raunchy-comedy curve.
08/17/09
I think it's worth it just to witness the comic genius of Kathryn Hahn.
08/16/09
At times 'The Goods" gets up and running on all cylinders, but misfires often with bits that simply don't jell.
08/16/09
Raunchy, crass and simply loopy, this is a movie you're either going to love or hate.
08/16/09
"The Goods" has to imply an antonym as it is far from good. Despite starring the Emmy award winning Jeremy Piven, the writing destroyed any chance of success.
08/15/09
there are a few good jokes, but for me a few laughs here and there aren't enough
08/15/09
With a comedy like this, you want to be laughing constantly, not every 15 or 20 minutes.
08/15/09
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08/14/09
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