The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard Review

Here's a movie that's about as funny as an episode of 'My Name Is Earl'. (To be clear, that's pleasantly rather than exceptionally funny). That finite amount of comedy is here stretched over 90 minutes so there's some filler, and not every line hits the mark. But the film's premise - used car-selling superstar Don Ready (Jeremy Piven) travels around the United States with his team jump-starting failing dealerships and getting involved in the lives of the locals - would make a half-decent TV show.

In fact, Piven is most famous for his role in 'Entourage' and so a transition to playing Don Ready full-time would be simple enough. The only enjoyment to be gained from watching a film like this in the cinema is in hearing other people laugh uproariously at the jokes you might find too politically incorrect to warrant more than a smirk.

These jokes are fired out like one of those ball-throwing machines used for baseball practice - sometimes they hit and they hurt, sometimes they miss, and sometimes they meet the bat. They just keep coming, before you have a chance to worry over one of the more offensive gags, there's a toilet humour skit flying towards you. It's an uneven brand of humour but it sure is ballsy. It might be fashionable to view political incorrectness as refreshing and honest, but in reality unless Sacha Baron Cohen is involved, it's probably neither.