Matt Oakes Silver Screen Riot Oct 14, 2026 C

The material they're working with is always a two-step behind their talents and, though often worthy of a chuckle, makes some unfortunately vulgar turns along the way.

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Richard Crouse Richard Crouse Feb 2, 2021 2/5

Occasionally offensive-but what R-rated comedy in the last ten years isn't?-but worse than that, it takes the easy way out and in the process wastes the opportunity to dig a bit deeper and make the class warfare comedy a bit richer.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Dec 4, 2020 6/10

The film exists in an alternate reality, where lots of guns are waved and no one gets shot, and where deadly situations pop up but result in barely a drop of spilt blood.

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Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 8, 2020 2.0/4.0

They're a pretty incredible comic duo even in a remarkably average film.

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Brandon Davis ComicBook.com Nov 13, 2019 6.8/10

Get Hard features the type of jokes you'd expect from a title that's an innuendo itself. The outrageous laughs almost make the plot unimportant but ultimately fit the style Ferrell is known for.

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Thom Denson One Room With A View May 14, 2019 2/5

Uninspired and unfunny, Get Hard is further evidence that Ferrell needs a career intervention.

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Victoria Luxford CineVue Apr 4, 2019 2/5

Instead of lampooning racial difference or satirising white collar crime, it opts for the easiest, most crowd pleasing humour, and hammers the screen with jokes that get old almost as soon as you hear them.

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Bernard Boo Way Too Indie Mar 14, 2019 4/10

There are some chuckles to be had here, because with such gifted and reliable talent that's pretty much a given. But the vehicle that houses Hart and Ferrell is so scummy and poorly crafted it isn't worth anyone's time.

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Micheal Compton Bowling Green Daily News Jan 23, 2019 C

Ferrell and Hart prove to have really good chemistry... But for every positive moment the two generate, you get three or four moments that don't work.

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Di Golding Dear Cast and Crew Dec 11, 2018 1.5/5

I was offended by the film's laziness. It confuses being shocking and obnoxious with being edgy. Instead of finding the line and cleverly crossing it, it finds the line and takes a greasy, self-righteous dump on it.

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Debbie Baldwin Ladue News Nov 2, 2018 5/10

So when you sit in this movie and can count on one hand the number of times you laugh, it's disappointing, especially when it's the same joke repeated over and over and over again.

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Aaron Peterson The Hollywood Outsider Oct 24, 2018 3.5/10

For all the yammering about Get Hard being too racist or too homophobic, much of the chatter that has been lost is that it just isn't funny.

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Leigh Paatsch Herald Sun (Australia) May 11, 2018 0/5

So let the racist stereotyping and gay-panic high jinks begin!

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Michael Arceneaux Complex Mar 29, 2018

Get Hard tries to highlight the reality that there are two very different sides to Los Angeles. The problem is that it does so in the most cartoonish way possible.

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Robert Kojder Flickering Myth Dec 2, 2017 3/5

Will Ferrell randomly yelling baked potato with a shiv stuck in his forehead is gold

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M. Faust The Public (Buffalo) Oct 17, 2017

It's awash in jokes reeking of racism and homophobia, and while I'm sure that the films creators would argue that they're simply trying to air out these differences, they utterly lack the finesse to walk that line.

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Sarah Marrs Lainey Gossip Oct 17, 2017

The weird thing, though, is that Get Hard isn't mean-spirited. It's just bad comedy falling short of its mark in the worst possible way.

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Brooke Corso The Monitor (McAllen, TX) Aug 16, 2017 F

It's offensive to minorities, it's offensive to gay people, and it's offensive to the lead actor's resumes.

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Dwight Brown National Newspaper Publishers Association Mar 7, 2017

Hart and Ferrell make this movie raunchy, silly, hysterical and fun.

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Jason Bailey Flavorwire May 28, 2016

Obvious, lazy, tone-deaf, and mean-spirited - and that, friends, is hard to laugh at.

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