The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

I heard many mixed-up reviews on this movie before watching. I thought I would go out and rent "The Goods" myself to really see how it is. When it came out it was marketed like crazy, and by just judging the commercials it actually looked rather funny. However, after watching this movie, it just may be one of the worst comedies I have ever seen. In fact, I don't even think that "The Goods" deserves to be considered a comedy because I barely laughed once. I don't usually blog about bad movies, but this one was so bad that I just had to share it with you guys. Now I don't know if you have seen it or not, but I am sure you will agree with me if you watch it yourself. This movie was so bad that I actually fell asleep in it and when I woke up I had to rewind it back just so that I would have enough valuable information to blog about it. If I had to pick out the funniest part of the movie, it would be the fact that it was funny how bad some of the jokes were; it was as if they were trying too hard to make you laugh. I really cannot explain why it was so bad. I guess it is just something that you will have to see for yourself (if you feel like watching an hour and a half of pure torture).

Anyways, I will just tell you the main storyline of the movie. "The Goods" stars Jeremy Piven who plays a mercenary named Don Ready. The other main star in the film is Ed Helms playing the character Paxton who has his own Backstreet Boys style band called the Big Ups. I quite like both of these actors who have played many good roles in past comedies; however, they were terrible in this movie, sparking no humor at all. In the movie, Ben Selleck's car dealership is having business trouble and will be forced to foreclose unless he is able to sell at least 211 cars before the end of July 4th weekend. Paxton and his dad Stu try to buy the dealership from Ben hoping to put him out of business seeing as though they own a competitive car dealership nearby. Instead, Ben Selleck decides to hire Don Ready and his team who convince him that he does not need to sell the company because with their skills they can sell out the whole car lot. At the same time Don is determined to do so in order to win over the love that he has for Ben's daughter Ivy Selleck, who is engaged to Paxton. The team will do everything they can to sell out all the cars for Ben's dealership, going through many obstacles and using many obscure techniques to do so. One of these techniques is advertising on a TV commercial that Ben has Testicular Cancer and that all he wants to do before he dies is sell all the cars at his dealership. In my opinion, that is just messed up. Did they really think that a serious matter such as cancer would be funny to viewers! Well there you have it! That is the movie and if it sounds good to you than go see. Trust me when I say this, "Don’t do it to yourself. It really is not worth your precious time!" But here is a short preview of the movie anyways: "The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard". Believe me, you will really hate it!