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Nobody's Sold on The Goods

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 14, 2009 11:26 AM CDT

(Newser) – On paper, The Goods ought to be—well, good, given that it has plenty of funny people on both sides of the camera. Didn’t turn out that way. Here’s what critics are saying:

  • Seemingly pulled “straight out of Will Ferrell's discard pile,” the flick is a “mean-spirited nightmare of throwaway gags,” writes Adam Keleman of Slant Magazine.

  • Star Jeremy Piven is tragically limited, writes Wesley Morris of the Boston Globe. There’s not much to him besides “the mysteries of his hair. You want to touch it just to see if an alarm goes off.”
  • Rene Rodriguez of the Miami Herald bemoans the “sheer ineptitude” of director Neal Brennan. The movie looks “as if it were shot through a dirty sock” and is rarely even funny. It “just sits there, a lumpen load of dullness.”

In this film publicity image released by Paramount Pictures, Jeremy Piven, left, and James Brolin are shown in a scene from the film, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard.
In this film publicity image released by Paramount Pictures, Jeremy Piven, left, and James Brolin are shown in a scene from the film, "The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard."   (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, Sam Emerson)
In this film publicity image released by Paramount Pictures, James Brolin, left, and David Koechner are shown in a scene from the film, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard.
In this film publicity image released by Paramount Pictures, James Brolin, left, and David Koechner are shown in a scene from the film, "The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard."   (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, Sam Emerson)
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I got the sense that Hollywood might never make another great comedy if it sticks to its current model of releasing schlock by conveyor belt.
- Adam Keleman

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iamacidangel
Aug 16, 2009 12:01 PM CDT
I want to see it too. But I think I can wait until it is out on DVDs since Land of the Lost was quite a dissapointment to me. But look at the track history of everyone associated with the movie! Historically, they are all in pretty good movies.
Fig-Neutron
Aug 14, 2009 7:37 AM CDT
That blind guy bit I saw last night looked ripped straight out of a 1988 Corey Feldman movie. Bwah Haw, they gave him a dumpy car! Stupid blind people.

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