While Jeremy Piven isn't one of the all-time greats in the acting department, he's just the type of guy that can carry a movie like this. This is also not one of the all-time great movies, but it is a fun one, if you just know how to check your head at the door, relax, and take that stick out of your, well, you know, then you should enjoy this lewd, crude, politically incorrect flick. Rocket science it isn't, but The Goods is a comedy the likes that I've grown up on, and the kind that has seemingly made a comeback. It's that sort of goofy, 80's style movie that had a wacky ensemble engaging in all sorts of hi-jinks to "save something".
The story revolves around a troubled car dealership that hires out sales mercenaries led by Piven to save the place during one giant 4-day holiday sale. The rollicking cast includes Ving Rhames, Kathryn Hahn, and David Koechner as Piven's teammates, James Brolin as the dealership's owner, with Ed Helms and Alan Thicke as the opposition, plus all kinds of other noteworthy supporters, and a great cameo towards the end. The comedy is silly and mostly dirty, and all of the characters carry it out well. Piven plays a great slime-ball with a heart, while Hahn is perfect as the sexpot men fear. Everyone just looks like they had a great time making this, and why shouldn't they, it's a comedy that I laughed out loud at many times.
Now, don't get me wrong, this is a stupid movie, but I dig stupid movies, and its hard to argue that movies like this don't need to be anything more. Maybe for most, The Goods won't deliver, but for me, a guy who grew up with these kinds of movies, it surely does. It reminded me of D.C. Cab, and that's a good thing. Keep the stupidity coming, I say!
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