Get Hard

Overall Rating: LMFAO

Full Disclosure: I am a total Will Ferrell fan. He is one of my absolute favs all the way back from the SNL days.

Regardless, I thoroughly enjoyed and literally laughed out loud at his newest project. I was slightly unsure about how the chemistry would turn out between him and Kevin Hart – whose style I worried might clash was an absolute complement. Yes, there were some very Ferrelly moments in the movie, those awkward and outlandish moments that only WF can create, but a lot of the movie really it kept it 100 in comparison to the rest of his films.

One of the best things about this movie was how it smoothly it dealt with class and race. Most movies have an awkward embellishment of stereotypes, especially for marginalized communities of people, regardless of genre. Get Hard employed stereotypes about as little as you possibly could with stereotyping itself being one of the plot points. Yes, there were black people in a gang, but I’d have to say their characters were much more authentic than the elitist whites.
I think that’s why Hart and Ferrell made such a magical duo. One could not have made this movie without the other.
Time to go look for my ass now, since I just laughed it off.