Let’s be honest, Will Ferrell is either funny or
rotten. Old School, funny; The
Producers, rotten; Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,
funny; Land of the Lost, dear lord that was awful … Elf,
genius.
It’s clear that you never know what you are going to
get. So when it was announced that
Ferrell would be teaming with Kevin Hart for writer-turned-director Etan
Cohen’s directorial debut, Get Hard, you had to have high hopes
that FUNNY would be in cards, but fingers were nevertheless crossed.
With a box office haul of $87.8 million and reviews that
savaged it for being too racial and too over-the-top for its gay bashing we can
report that Ferrell, Hart and Cohen achieved exactly what they set out to
do! And that is … make a very funny
movie that goes out of its way to be offensive.
We can also report that Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has
targeted June 30 as the street for both DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack editions
of Get
Hard … with the Blu-ray SKU featuring an “unrated” cut of the
film.
Ferrell plays James King, a white bread financial whiz with
a potential trophy bride (Alison Brie — as Trudy in the Mad Men comedy series)
who suddenly finds himself being charged — and quickly convicted — of
embezzling millions from a hedge fund that he’s been running with his future
father-in-law (Craig T. Nelson).
With 30 days to get his affairs in order before heading off
to a ten-year stint at San Quentin, he turns to a black entrepreneur named
Darnell (Hart) who runs a car wash service — of which James is a customer — and
because he is both black and washing cars James assumes that he must have a rap
sheet. With an offer of cash for a
quick course in prison survival, James enters into a deal with Darnell to get
him “hard” … there’s just one problem, James is clean. But the cash, that’s too much to turn down.
Everything that follows spins off of this
“misunderstanding.” Which is damn
funny!!! Chalk up Get Hard in the funny
Will Farrell column.
As to bonus goodies, which are exclusive to the Blu-ray SKU
(with the sole exception of a gag reel), there are ten featurettes and deleted
scenes.
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