The unfunny attempts to be wacky and distasteful are just so ineffective, so agonizingly flat that the whole runtime becomes a waiting game for the end credits.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 4, 2023

It outstays its welcome even before it starts.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 28, 2020

| Original Score: B- | Feb 18, 2012

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

The Goods isn't trying for much but what it is trying for it more or less succeeds at. That doesn't make it a particularly good movie; in fact it pretty much ensures that it can't be one.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 22, 2011

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard is an entirely throwaway experience that doesn't offer anything vaguely witty or clever. Look elsewhere to satisfy your comedy needs.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 15, 2010

...an agreeable piece of work...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 18, 2010

While it is brash and absurd and funny in fits and starts, it also seems to lose its nerve as it goes on.

| Dec 17, 2009

The number of remotely chucklesome jokes in Neal Brennan's comedy is way too low, and the stuff in between them is grimy and depressing.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 30, 2009

Vulgar, pointless, unfunny comedy.

| Oct 30, 2009

Like a dodgy old motor, this smutty comedy about car salesmen roars with life to begin with but putters to a stop all too soon.

| Oct 30, 2009

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

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 23, 2009

A throng of outrageous supporting characters do little to salvage this stalled effort.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 23, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 23, 2009

It isn't merely bad, it makes you want to clamp your hands to either side of your face and do an impersonation of The Scream.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Oct 23, 2009

This film is so crass and so lowbrow its hairline is level with the carpet underlay. And yet, and yet, I must hang my head and confess I did laugh a fair bit.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2009

They look as if they could provide more laughs but are defeated by bovine gags retrieved from a trashcan full of out-takes.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 23, 2009

That mainstream cinema continually serves up such offensive offal is one thing, but the fact that the boundaries of taste are challenged with such regularity is made all the more alarming when passed off as harmless fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 23, 2009

On paper, The Goods had the potential to be The Next Anchorman, but unfortunately somewhere in the drawing room, someone decided to pursue cheap laughs over something more substantial.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 23, 2009

Jokes only get you so far, and The Goods gets increasingly bogged down in its uninspired plotlines. Ferrell's cameo is a particular lowpoint.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2009