Review of The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) by David H — 05 Sep 2010

The previews for this made the movie look very funny, what with everyone jumping and beating up Ken Jeong. In actually watching this, however, the film flirted dangerously close to the line that crosses between "funny" and "not funny".

What I really liked, actually, were a lot of the side jokes, like Kathryn Hahn's character's obsession with the 10-year old man, Charles Napier's post-war vet crazy guy and Craig Robinson's DJ with his personal asides.

I've honestly never been a huge fan of Jeremy Piven, but this flick, along with Smokin' Aces, have got to be my favorite works of his. He performed admirably, and fit the role of a sleazy car salesman perfectly.

I actually did start feeling for this desperate character and wanted him to pull through and come to his senses at the end, which means I cared - even if I did half-expect him to just stick to what he knows at the end.

It was interesting seeing all the big names pop in as the film progressed, like Alan Thicke and Will Ferrell. The comedy was pretty funny, to be honest, I did find myself laughing a lot. I was hoping, however, that it would be funnier, and less crude.

I wanted a more clever or intelligently funny film, but it proved to be more of a "Waiting..." for selling cars, which is fine, I enjoyed "Waiting...". I didn't, however, need to see Ving Rhames without a shirt on.

That cost this movie a half star in this rating.