I don't totally get why this movie was made. It's not especially funny, nor does it have all that many big-name stars in it. It looks and feels like a movie that's been on a shelf for 10 years, in terms of casting, tone and style. I guess it's a stupid frat-boy comedy that is being sold to drunks, but even they deserve to get more than this, I think.
The movie is about Jeremy Piven who is a used car salesman for hire. He works with a team of salesmen, including Ving Rhames (Ving - where you been, man?! It feels like years since we've seen you!), who travel around the country selling used car lots empty. So Piven and his crew are hired by a dealership to sell all of their cars in a weekend. Then there's the douchy boyfriend of the car dealer's daughter, played by Ed Helms, who is trying to edge into the business, or something. That's about it. I don't think there's even much of a bad guy in this - it's unclear why these people are racing to sell cars.
The idea behind this movie is so bad that it makes me wonder how bad an idea has to be before you can't get money to make a movie. I mean a movie about selling used cars?! Really?! Even a gross-out comedy about ping pong makes more sense than that.
The strangest part is that this is a movie I would have expected Piven to make in the mid-1990s - after PCU. It is as if the past 15 years had not happened - and his success and Emmy's had never happened. This is not the role of an Emmy winner. This is a role for a Dax Shepard or a Johnny Knoxville.
This is dumb crap and totally forgettable.
Stars: .5 of 4
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I can't even imagine what drove me to see this film in the theaters. Awful. If anything, you're too kind.
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