The Goods – Schnelle Autos, schnelle Deals (2009)

The Goods – Schnelle Autos, schnelle Deals: Directed by Neal Brennan. With Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, James Brolin, David Koechner. Used-car liquidator Don Ready is hired by a flailing auto dealership to turn their Fourth of July sale into a majorly profitable event.

“It seems like every week iu0026#39;m saying there is a new u0026quot;funniest movie of the year.u0026quot; u0026quot;Funny Peopleu0026quot; is my current favorite but u0026quot;The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hardu0026quot; is itu0026#39;s non-dramatic equivalent.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFirst off this is a great role for Jeremy Piven, very much in Ari Gold-form as Don Ready, a car salesman-for-hire who travels around America with his crew helping out lackluster dealerships. Don is the type of character you immediately love, a born talker who not only manages to smoke on the plane ride over to Temecula, CA, he turns it into an all-out orgy complete with live mariachi band.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhy go to Temecula? The car dealership owned by Ben Selleck (James Brolin) is in trouble, struggling with rag-tag salesman, poor sales returns, and as Babs (Kathryn Hahn), one part of Donu0026#39;s crew points out, the place looks like a u0026quot;refugee camp for dirty men.u0026quot; Along with his other two sidekicks, Brent (David Koechner) and Jibby (Ving Rhames), Don must sell all the cars off the lot or the dealership faces being sold to Stu Harding (Alan Thicke), another more successful dealer.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHis son is Paxton Harding (Ed Helms), a late-30u0026#39;s man whose real dream is for his boy band to finally get off the ground. Paxton is engaged to Sellecku0026#39;s daughter Ivy (Jordana Spiro), who Don also finds attractive. Soon Ivy, plus a long-lost son Don fathered when he was 10-years old, encourages him to think about finally settling down. Wall to wall ridiculousness ensues.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDirected by Neal Brennan (a former writer on Chappelle Show) and written by Andy Stock and Rick Stempson, this is an offensively rude, crude, profane laugh machine from first scene to last. There are a few really good lines and the supporting cast gets some of the most hilarious material iu0026#39;ve seen this year. The Daily Showu0026#39;s Rob Riggle as Sellecku0026#39;s son Peter, a 10 year old with a pituitary problem that makes him look 40. Kathryn Hahn as Donu0026#39;s sexually abrasive partner, using porno to sell cars and lusting after the innocent but very hunky Peter. Charles Napier as an older salesman who pines for the olden days and gets crazily angry and offensive to women, gays, Asians, and just about everybody really. Ving Rhames, playing a character whou0026#39;s had sex with thousands of women but has never u0026quot;made loveu0026quot;. Ed Helms, with his pot-belly and spiky hair-do, does nice work with the boy band stuff. James Brolin has a running gay gag with David Koechner that never gets old, and Brolinu0026#39;s car commercial, where he guilt-trips everyone to buy because he is dying of ball cancer, had me in tears. And like I said, Iu0026#39;m trying not to give too much away but Will Ferrell gets a cameo that single-handedly makes you forgive the atrocity that was u0026quot;Land of the Lost.u0026quot; u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis is all just the tip of the iceberg of this insanely hilarious movie. You just want to start listing funny thing after funny thing, its that good.”