The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard – Review

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard is one of those movies that blows its load in its trailer.  All of the good jokes were in the short preview, making the flick look like it was going to be a winner, when in reality it was awful.  The flick had the right ingredients to become a solid funny picture, but sadly it was just weak picture that wasn’t all that funny.

In The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard Jeremy Piven is Don Ready, a maverick used car salesman that lives for the thrill of the sale.  Piven and his team, which includes Ving Rhames, David Koechner, and Kathryn Hahn, are hired by Ben Selleck (James Brolin) to help him move all the cars on his lot in three days or his arch enemy, Stu Harding (Alan Thicke) is allowed to buy the dealership out from under him.

This flick could have been comedy gold with all the heavy hitters that were involved, but it missed the mark by a mile.  Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are credited as producers on the flick, but the flick doesn’t have the same charm that their usual brand of comedy does.  First time director, Neal Brennan stitched together a watchable movie, but not the funny movie that I was expecting.  The jokes are weak and the actors looked out of place (especially Will Ferrell in his small role).  Multiple times I found myself looking at my watch because of boredom.

Jeremy Piven is a solid actor and so are the rest of the cast, so I can only assume that the flick was the victim of bad decisions on behalf of the filmmaker or studio interference.  Either way The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard was not very good, and definitely not a killer film.

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