I love Jeremy Piven. His role as Ari Gold in Entourage is one the greatest characters in television and it has scored him an Emmy. But in this role as Don Ready, a dynamo salesman of used automobiles, I see much of the same character but in much more watered down and more trashy version. Don Ready is very vulgar and lewd but he lacks much of the Ari Gold wit and flash that makes Jeremy Piven a good actor.
In "The Goods," the premise is that a used car lot is about to go belly up if it doesn't move many of the sitting cars in its inventory within the next few days. The owner calls in a "mercenary" (Piven) to liquidate the assets and save the business. The major plot in the movie is that Don Ready becomes emotionally attached to this task, because of his love interest in the daughter of the autodealer, Ivy, played by Jordana Spiro of "My Boys" (TBS) fame. There are a lot of obstacles that come in the way and they are all very over the top, and not very funny. As the story plays out you see some familiar faces notably Ed Helms (The Hangover, The Office), Will Ferrell, and much to my displeasure Kathryn Hahn (the sex maniac inlaw of Step Brothers, I seriously cannot stand her choice of roles) and David Koechner (Champ from Anchorman, I hate him in all his roles as well).
This wraps up to be an okay movie, but I wouldn't pin it to be a good at all. At the same time it's not that bad, it was decently entertaining and very short (83 minutes). It was far from as funny as I hoped it to be. The writing wasn't sold very well and producer Adam McCay appears to have fallen short yet again. Save this movie for the Redbox.
Rating: 1.5 of 4 stars.
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