Saturday, November 21, 2009

DVD Review: The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

Rated R for language, crude humor, sexuality, nudity

Starring Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, James Brolin, David Koechner, Kathryn Hahn, Jordana Spiro, Craig Robinson, Ed Helms, Ken Jeong

When a car dealership is in trouble and needs to host a sale to make some serious cash they call in hot shot salesman Don "The Goods" Ready and his team to get the job done.

Selleck Motors has been a family business for over 40 years, however due to back payments to the bank, Selleck needs to sell as many of the 211 cars on his lot over July 4th weekend, otherwise he risks foreclosing on the lot. Ready and his team comes in using their motivation techniques and methods, rallies the rest of Selleck's sales team to sell as many cars as possible. Despite several mishaps, such as special guest Eric Bice (brother to American Idol's Bo Bice) failing to show and the crowd rioting in protest, the team presses forward to get the job done.

Throughout the weekend, Don begins to fall for Selleck's adult daughter Ivy, who is engaged to Paxton, an up and coming boy band member and the son of a rival car dealership who plans on buying the lot Selleck Motors is on once the property forecloses. Also, after noticing many similarities between himself and 22 year old Selleck sales team member Blake, Don is convinced that Blake is his son, after having unprotected sex with a woman the last time he was in Temecula 23 years ago.

Despite not being in theaters long, this film was actually pretty funny. Having work for a company that does work similar to that of Don Ready and his team (only for furniture stores instead of car dealerships), I was particularly interested in seeing this one.

Brought to you by the team of Adam McKay and Will Ferrell, if you enjoyed their previous works Step Brothers and Talladega Nights, you won't be disappointed. While some of the humor is a tad crude, if you're not easily offended by such things or other films in the R-rated comedy genre, you'll most likely enjoy this one.

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