Movie Review: “Get Hard”

Garrett Ariana, Reporter

Nothing works faster and more consistently to relieve stress and bring your body into balance than laughter (according to webmd.com). If you’re looking to take advantage of that perk, this Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart movie, “Get Hard”, will no doubt do the trick. Based around a multi-millionaire sentenced to prison for fraud, Ferrell is looking to become tough through training from one of his employees. Hart proves he’ll go to any means to de-soften him.

There wasn’t a span of five minutes in the movie that I didn’t find myself nearly falling out of my chair from the hilarity of the sometimes overdone inappropriateness. The nonsense that Ferrell and Hart bring to the table comes across as preposterous, however, it is the type of humor that a lot of high schoolers, like myself, find rib-tickling. As with most movies starring either Ferrell or Hart, the writers and directors went above and beyond to make their characters as absurd and fitting to inner-city and one percent stereotypes as possible.

Unless you go to this movie expecting to not be offended by the senseless stereotypes and not to be somewhat uninterested in the idle plot, you’ll get what you pay for: an hour and a half of chuckling. If you go just looking to have a good time and sit back and share some laughs, this movie doesn’t miss the mark.

Bottom Line: Unless you really have an urge to see this offensive, but riotous film on the big screen, it might be better to wait for it to get to Netflix and watch it on a Sunday afternoon with some pals.