I can’t say I’m easily offended. As someone who enjoys intelligent bad taste and counts John Waters as a cinematic hero, it takes a lot to offend my sensibilities. I’ve seen a lot of fellow writers dub Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart‘s first collaboration Get Hard as offensive – and it is – particularly as the material is so pathetically weak.
This one-hundred minute relentless tirade of black jokes, prison-rape gags, and gay-bashing follows millionaire James King (Ferrell) as he’s framed for fraud and sentenced to ten years in San Quentin. With thirty days before his sentence commences King teams-up with his car-washer Darnell (Hart) in order to help him toughen up and avoid being raped in prison.
It’s staggering to see that three writers – including director Etan Cohen – were involved in writing the screenplay to Get Hard. That surely means that at least three people found these limp attempts at …