The spring movie season is continuing on in dribs and drabs in 2015, as it’s been some time since there’s been anything for us to get too worked up over. It’s that post-Oscars, pre-summer lull when studios throw out a bunch of mediocrity in the hopes that something sticks. This week we get hard on the way home.
Just remember, I'm not reviewing these movies, but rather predicting where they'll end up on the Tomatometer. Let's take a look at what This Rotten Week has to offer.
Because I know it’s important to establish an identity in prison early, in order to fit into the social structure of endless confinement, I know how I’d roll in there day one. My strategy would be to walk in as the prison sommelier. I figure everyone would want to know the perfect dinner wine pairings and they’d know to come to me in order to make sure they were putting their Grigio and light fish together. And those Cabs and meat are going to really make the experience worth the trip. They’d love me in prison.
In a movie that appears heavy on cliches and low brow humor, Get Hard teams Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart together in a buddy flick about Ferrell getting trained for a trip to the clink. Get Hard looks like it will be embracing its tropes and stereotypes as comedy early (Ferrell assumes Hart has been to prison because the latter is black), but then sets out on a mission to bring out every overdone prison plot element known to man. Ferrell appears to be way overdoing it, putting together an awkward version of all his previous characters (not in a good way). Hart looks a bit more natural in the role, but the whole thing looks weak.
This is director Etan Cohen’s directorial debut after penning films like Idiocracy (72%) and Tropic Thunder (83%). Those movies were meta in their dumbness, understanding how to use low brow humor to satisfy the overall production. This movie looks like the opposite. Get Hard appears the byproduct of writers sitting in a room, listing everything they could think they knew about prison and finally having Kevin Hart play it out on screen as he puts Ferrell through more and more "training" he thinks will help in prison. I get the idea. I just don’t think it’ll work.
The early critical reaction is less than positive, with the Tomatometer sitting at 30% with ten reviews logged so far. I very much doubt this score climbs much, if at all, over the course of the week. Critics confirm some of my suspicions about the trailer.
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