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Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: From its juvenile double entendre title to its fascination with prison rape and homophobic humor, "Get Hard" practically announces itself as an offensive, tired and unimaginative comedy in nearly every scene. Read more
Wesley Morris, Grantland: Get Hard turns out to be a far cry from something like Trading Places or even the clever first half of the class-insurrection comedy of Tower Heist. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: A lazy attempt to drag out a Funny or Die-style skit to feature length by continuously recycling about eight minutes worth of gags. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Laughter trumps political fairness; and Get Hard made me laugh at, and with, situations I hadn't thought could tickle me. The movie has a warm heart beating under its seemingly scabrous shell. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: If you're disturbed by white-collar crime, but not quite as disturbed as you are by gay sex, then congratulations: You might possess just the right combo of social conscience and unexamined homophobia needed to fully enjoy Get Hard. Read more
Jesse Hassenger, AV Club: Before the movie has even really begun, it's already fudging its own premise and undermining its satire. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: This is a horrible idea for a movie. It is, however, a decent idea for an extended sketch, and that's how the first two-thirds of the movie plays. Read more
Tom Russo, Boston Globe: A movie that refuses to recognize when it's going too far, with its wince-eliciting jokes about jailhouse rape in particular. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Anal rape jokes and racial stereotypes dominate this third-rate comedy. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: I laughed when Ferrell smashed a bottle of beer on the sidewalk, just to show he's tough, but if that's a movie's standout bit, that movie's no standout. Read more
Sandy Cohen, Associated Press: It's tricky territory to tread, and Get Hard doesn't always get it right, but in a nation where racial and economic divides are growing issues, it deserves credit for trying. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: It trucks in stereotypes (black, white, Latino, female -- the list is long) and plays clumsily with sexuality. Still, the movie's greatest and altogether familiar sin is that it's stupid. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Will you laugh? Absolutely. Could this have been a better film? Definitely. Read more
Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com: Since anyone who has seen the trailer has already seen many of the film's best moments, making it through to the end does feel like something of a life sentence. Read more
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: Get Hard is not only a bad movie but a profoundly wasted opportunity. Read more
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: It already seems more dated than Trading Places - not to mention less savvy about all the subjects it pretends to be addressing while it tries to make us laugh. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: With Ferrell and Hart involved, it's probably impossible for anyone to completely resist their baser instincts to be amused by the patently offensive. Though it's hard not to wish more moviegoers would. Read more
Amy Nicholson, L.A. Weekly: Ideally, this would be Blazing Saddles for folks who chug kombucha. Yet it's harder to satirize race today than it was 40 years ago - more sensitive times impose gentler jokes. Read more
Tony Hicks, San Jose Mercury News: "Get Hard" is worth a look for fans of Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart. And the two do work well together. But anyone with a low tolerance for politically incorrect stereotyping and lowbrow humor should sit this one out. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Hart and Ferrell may not be Pryor and Wilder, but they score several laughs in this slim comedy. Read more
Andrew Lapin, NPR: It's still ultimately a disposable work, but at least while it's going, it hits hard. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: "Get Hard" isn't edgy enough to be offensive or witty enough to be challenging. It's just dumb. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: The highest praise I can give "Get Hard" is that it is not quite as awful as it could have been. Read more
Molly Eichel, Philadelphia Inquirer: The germ of an interesting idea in Get Hard is completely overshadowed by the onslaught of jokes meant to be boundary-pushing and edgy. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Dumb, juvenile comedy has its place when it's funny. Unfortunately, too often in Get Hard, it's not. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Get Hard is one limp noodle. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Subtly, not in a way anyone would notice without looking for it, the movie switches back and forth, giving each comedian a chance to be the funny one and the other to lend support. Read more
Kevin C. Johnson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The film's numbing lack of intelligence, exhibited from the start, makes "Get Hard" tough to watch, even by Hart/Ferrell standards. Read more
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic: Ferrell has stuck to the formulaic farce that made him a star, even as his roles have been shifting from antic instigator to bewildered straight man. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Not entirely unfunny. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The movie seeks to make you laugh while also risking offense by going too far. It succeeds on both counts. Read more
Inkoo Kang, TheWrap: There's a daring comedy somewhere inside writer Etan Cohen's directorial debut, which simultaneously trivializes and solemnizes the prospect of prison rape. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Only the humorless will frown at Ferrell's easy way with white-guy entitlement. "I'm going to be attending San Quentin," the Harvard grad sniffs, almost as a point of pride; later, after tasting thug life, he calls it an "ambrosia of primal sensations." Read more
Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: It feels like a bunch of off-color jokes the filmmakers have been trying to tell for years, and they've crammed them all into one film - with tiresome results. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: The dubious merit of tiresome "don't drop the soap" jokes aside, "Get Hard" sometimes veers perilously close to committing the very sins it aspires to criticize. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Funny bits come along every now and then, and the co-stars work desperately hard for their salaries. But the spectacle is depressing for what it says of mainstream studio standards. Read more