Review: The Goods - Live Hard, Sell Hard

This film from Adam McKay and Will Ferrell aspires to be the next Anchorman, with one non-pc character after another appearing on screen - but truth be told the end results are sadly closer to their work on Step Brothers.

Whilst The Goods isn't as awful as that - it actually has a few laughs in it, but they aren't big enough or frequent enough for what is actually a pretty strong cast of comedy talent that suffers from a lack of story and lack of actual jokes.

Piven in his first lead role does okay, but like the rest of the cast doesn't have much to work with - his big speeches that should be the movies centrepiece fall flat everytime.

Only briefly does The Goods threaten to rise above the mediocre when a cameo involving one of the films producers and a purple dildo brings the crude humour missing for the remaining 90 minutes.