The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

I came into this movie thinking Will Ferrell and Adam McKay produced this, it should be a classic in the mold of Step-Brothers, Taladega Nights, or East Bound & Down. However, what I got was half of Ari Gold, and a lot of short laughs attached to a terrible plot.

I'll give them credit for the casting, Piven needed a role where he starred in that was a comedy. Ving Rhames, David Koechner, and Kathryn Hahn were great as his sidekicks. Rob Riggle's character was classic, too. However, Jordana Spiro, James Brolin, and Ken Jeong failed to deliver in their respective and appropriately sized roles. The movie just seemed like it had a bunch of lame parts to it.

In comparing this to Step-Brothers, where you laughed constantly throughout the whole movie, The Goods was a few hard, but very short laughs. Most of it seemed used, and over used, mistimed, and Craig Robinson really needs to get a new character, he plays the same one in every movie, and its getting old.

The movies best point came towards the end in the form of Will Ferrell's first small appearance. It was one of the funniest scenes in any movie this year, and definitely the funniest of this one.

I'm really upset about this movie because I looked forward to it so much. It was just boring. I mean I won't deny I laughed, but not enough.

I rate this movie 5.3 of 10.