James King (Will Ferrell) is a highly successful trader and just made partner by Martin Barrow (Craig T. Nelson). He is set to marry the bosses' high maintenance daughter Alissa (Alison Brie). Darnell Lewis (Kevin Hart) is a hard working car wash owner trying to get ahead. At his engagement party, James is arrested for fraud. The evidence is fake but he's sentenced to ten years in maximum security anyways. He thinks Darnell is an ex-con and pays him $30k to teach the ways of prison.

Individually, these are great comedians. I rather have them play buddies but this still works a little. It's a lot of prison rape jokes and being gangster. It's more stupid than funny. Nevertheless, it still has a few funny moments.

"Get Hard" is a very simple title for this 100-minute movie from last year and it is also a very simple film I dare say. Don't be fooled by the director's name, he has nothing to do with the Coen Bros. And what I find the most shocking here is the number of writers who worked on this project. How can so many people not realize that the script is pretty bad and try to improve it. Oh well.. I guess they did and just couldn't do anything about it as they don't have the talent. You cannot really blame lead actors Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart as it is basically impossible to turn this screenplay into a quality movie, no matter how good their performances would be. Not that they were particularly good though.

I believe this film is just another from in the endless amount of films that exist out there and were really only made to get some cash and not with any creative ambition at all. I am almost a bit embarrassed to say that I somewhat liked the idea of a rich white man who has to go to jail and a black man trying to get him ready for it, even if it is all very absurd of course. There was some comedic potential in here and I believe a skilled writer could have turned this into a decent watch. But he would need to be way better than the people who worked on this one here. I just hope they won't make a sequel anytime soon, no idea if this was successful enough commercially, but if so, they will for sure. That's how it works sadly. I don't care about it though. "Get Hard" was a really weak film. Stay away.

James King (Will Ferrell) is a rich broker on his way to jail. Darnell (Kevin Hart) washes his car. King has got 30 days to get his affairs in order and hires Darnell (Kevin Hart) to teach him to "get hard" so he won't be bullied (or worse) in prison. Most of the film consists of Hart teaching Ferrell a bunch of dumb stuff doing racial and gay humor. Eventually they get around to gee, maybe he is innocent, let's figure this out.

Most of the humor was juvenile. Some scenes they carried out too long. The disgusting scenes tended to be short. I admit that I had to laugh out loud several times during a film that the audience certainly enjoyed more than I did. At times I felt I was watching "48 Hours" meets "Trading Places." I am not a fan of either star in this film. They can't act and individually I don't find them funny. They seemed to do well acting as a straight man for each other so neither one hogged the scene. Soft 4 stars.

Guide: F-bomb, sex. Brief nudity including Ferrell's butt or body double.