Doesn't really have the goods.By John DeSando, WCBE's
"Listen man, I haven't been home in a year and a half... and I'm about 90% sure I left the front door open." Jibby Newsome (Ving Rhames)
That's the funniest line in the film.
Selling used cars and love have not always been successfully tandem motifs, so universally derided is that business.
In The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard , starring Jeremy Piven as Don "The Goods" Ready, James Brolin as a hoping-to- be-gay car dealer hires Jeremy Piven's A Team to sell the cars off his ailing lot over a holiday weekend.
Piven falls in love while selling the cars to nary a laugh in the house.
For this lame comedy he left successful Broadway and TV gigs? F bombs and gay innuendo cannot sell the picture any more than used cars. Try to answer why Piven thinks films are a better venue than Broadway, where he had considerable success despite his leaving his last show under cloudy circumstances.
And that Will Ferrell is a producer of this failure with a forgettable cameo performance is further evidence that comedy is for sale, at least this one.
No government help for this clunker.
John DeSando teaches film at Franklin University and co-hosts WCBE 90.5's It's Movie Time, Cinema Classics, and On the Marquee, which can be heard streaming at http://publicbroadcasting.net/wcbe/ppr/index.shtml and on demand at http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wcbe/arts.artsmain Contact him at JDeSando@Columbus.RR.com