Which sets up the prison boot camp sequences that make up most of the movie. So, knowing nothing first-hand about prison, he takes the job. Darnell sees an opportunity to earn the money for a down payment on a new house. So he turns to the only black person he knows, Darnell, for guidance, wrongly assuming that because Darnell is black he's been to prison. James - who's used to an elite, country club life - has to toughen up. James says he's innocent but, after turning down a plea bargain, a judge sentences him to 10 years hard time in a maximum security prison. Hart is Darnell, owner of a car wash enterprise in the bottom of King's building, whose great ambition is to move his wife (Edwina Findley Dickerson) and daughter (Ariana Neal) to a better neighborhood.īut early on FBI agents raid James' engagement party and take him away for financial shenanigans. Somebody here doth protest too much and ultimately the gay jokes are a drag on the film.įerrell plays James King, a financial wizard who's just been made partner at his firm, and is set to marry the spoiled daughter (Alison Brie) of his boss (Craig T. Instead, it stands out and the more everything gay is ridiculed as horrifying, the less funny it becomes. Which you might think would get buried in the general raunch of things, but it doesn't. "Get Hard" - which is overstuffed with too-obvious erectile jokes - has a serious case of it.
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Beyond that, Ferrell's man-baby persona (the movie begins with him bawling like an infant) works nicely with Hart's firecracker explosiveness.īut. How could it not? There's a physical dissonance between these two - black/white, tall/short - that has served comedy teams since Laurel and Hardy and Abbot and Costello roamed the earth. So "Get Hard," which is more a series of sketches reacting to a situation than an actual movie, has plenty of funny moments. If you put Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell in a movie together, you're going to get some laughs.