The Goods: Live Hard Sell Hard 2009

     In a desperate attempt to save his rapidly failing used car dealership, Ben Selleck hires a crack team of car mercenaries to ramp up sales during the Fourth of July weekend.  The team is led by the fast-talking, foul-mouthed, self-assured Don “The Goods’ Ready.  This group has only three days to sell over 200 cars!!  As Don undertakes his newest mission he quickly falls for the boss’s daughter Ivy.  He realizes he will have to trust more than his cars and his crafty skills in deceit to make a success out of this daunting weekend!!

     This is a raunchy comedy packed with over-the-top, crude language and sexual jokes/innuendo from beginning to end.  No bodily function is left unreported, no serious issue is safe from the lowest forms of humor.  Expect a constant stream of racial slurs, fat jokes, outrageous come-ons and religious send-ups.  Interspersed with these verbal assaults are the visual ones, erotic lap dances, bare breasts, full-frontal female nudity, a bizarre brush with pedophilia, an exaggerated clothed male erection and dildos literally falling from the sky!!!  The objective in all cases is non-stop gross-out humor???  2* (I didn’t like this movie)

89 min, Comedy directed by Neal Brennan with Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, James Brolin, David Koechner, Kathryn Hahn, Ed Helms, Jordana Spiro, Tony Hale, Ken Jeong, Rob Riggle, Alan Thicke, Charles Napier, Jonathan Sadowski, Noureen DeWulf, Wendie Malick. 

 
Note:  Imdb 5.8* out of 10*  with 20,820 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 27% with 103 critic reviews 37%, 2* violence, 3* drinking, drugs & smoking, 4* language, Roger Ebert 3*, Amazon 4.5* out of 5* with 765 ratings.

Special Note:  Nine cast members in this film have played a major to a small role on the sitcom The Office (2005); David Koechner, Ed Helms, Craig Robinson, Paul Lieberstein, Rob Riggle, Will Ferrell, Ken Jeong, Jessica St. Clair, and Jean Villeique.  Five cast members in this movie also appeared in The Hangover (2009): Ed Helms, Ken Jeong, Rob Riggle, Bryan Callen, and Matt Walsh.   The Trans Am at Selleck Motors most likely wasn't used in the making of Smokey and the Bandit (1977). The most telling sign of this is that the interior is golden brown, the interior in the original Bandit car was black.  

Mistakes:  While trying to convince Paxton Harding to purchase a vehicle, Don Ready suggests he take his band on a tour of the Florida Panhandle.  The first city he mentions in Gainesville located North Florida is not the Panhandle?  As seen in the beginning, the Trans Am is placed on a metallic support in the air.  By the end of the movie we see Don and Ivy talking inside the vehicle.  When exiting, Don gets down as if the car was on the ground before the take was quickly cut to a next scene?