Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, The

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

A cheerfully energetically and very vulgar comedy.

Los Angeles Times Robert Abele

The Goods motors along choking out enough lowbrow laughs to make for an agreeably nutty late summer ride.

Portland Oregonian Stan Hall

In many places it's genuinely, absurdly funny--crass, sleazy and morally questionable, yes, but still funny.

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

Sloppy, grimy but quick on its feet, which puts it ahead of certain other (“The Hangover”) R-rated comedies (“The Hangover”) we’ve seen this summer (“The Hangover”).

Film Threat Rick Kisonak

The movie doesn’t even try to break new ground–it’s shot entirely on location in familiar Ferrell-McKay territory.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Ed Helms and Ving Rhames score laughs. But the breakout is "Step Brothers'" Kathryn Hahn as the tough (sales)girl who keeps up with the boys.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

You put up the cash, the movie clunks.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Feels forgettable, even though, in the moment, it's often very funny.

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

A comedy without a shred of obvious filmmaking and an endless stream of good, bad, sometimes terrible, often absurd jokes.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Although Will Ferrell materializes for a goofball cameo, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard lacks a key element that his "Talladega Nights" and "Anchor Man" both had - that is, somebody to like.

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

The script by Andy Stock and Rick Stempson (Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach) can, at times, be a nasty piece of work, and no amount of laughter will fully obscure the gag reflex that occasionally forms in the back of your throat.

New York Daily News Joe Neumaier

The oh-so-out-there mentality earns some chuckles, but that, along with Piven's preening, gets very trying. A hard sell is still a hard sell.

Time Out New York Nicolas Rapold

The escapades are tossed off and fall flat, all products of the business-as-usual template created by the film’s producers, Adam McKay and Will Ferrell.

LA Weekly Vadim Rizov

The few real laughs -- all two minutes’ worth -- come courtesy of Russ Meyer veteran Charles Napier as Dick Lewiston, the angriest macho male anachronism of the year.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Jeremy Piven's infamous "sushi defense" for skipping out on a Broadway role is easier to swallow than his performance as a scuzzy auto liquidator who sees the light in The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps

About Piven: When did it go wrong? When did the caustic character actor guaranteed to liven up even the dullest movie turn into a walking black hole of smarm from which no joy can escape?

Variety Brian Lowry

The movie simply doesn't deliver -- living hard, selling hard and, before it's over, finally dying hard.

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

Sloppy compendium of filthy jokes and lowbrow sight gags.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jennie Punter

A raunchy, fast-paced comedy that, nevertheless, is as flat as the tires on the old Volvo gathering dust in my garage.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

How can a movie as overstuffed with funny people as The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard be so listless and leaden?

Premiere Staff (Not credited)

If you are a fan of brainless comedy that willed with bits that seque magically into some semblance of a plot…then The Goods is for you.

Empire Nev Pierce

Sometimes this kind of comedy just goes too far into rubbishness to make it back.

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

Tediously one-note comedy.