Watch The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)

Star vehicles, by designation, depend on the call of their stars. So, before you compensate to see The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard., you should ask yourself how much you like Jeremy Piven. The Entourage Emmy conqueror is a used car salesman savant named Don Ready. He's as abrasive like Piven's Ari Gold, only in not as good as clothes. But if this is all Piven's got, haven't we seen it already?
Unfortunately, even though there's a good cast of likely and unlikely comic heroes mingling the used car lot, Piven gets most of the comic. And that's where this one bottlenecks.
It's not that Piven isn't comic or can't be funny, but in The Goods, it's one note over and more than again. That note isn't all that funny to instigate with, so after 90 minutes, the mechanism are ground beautiful severely. It doesn't help that Piven seems to be conscious that there's not too much to Don Ready, and almost nothing we haven't seen him do before, so Piven goes community theater on us: Everything. Gets. Loud. And. Big.
And because the movie tries so hard to drive Piven's character, the rest of the cast - comprised of such names as Ed Helms, Craig Robinson, Alan Thicke, James Brolin, and Ving Rhames - are almost totally spoiled, given their own one-note jokes, most of which are of the contemptible, easy, sophomoric description.
The Goods is the clerical debut of Neal Brennan, who co-created Chappelle's Show, which was one of the most always inventive and daringly bawdy hilarity show in years. But you can't see any evidence that these two projects have anything in common, and that's a shame.
The basic premise has the feasible to be pretty funny: A gang of used car liquidators travel from town to town, set up a big sale (the kind at which they fill circus tents in mall parking lots), and when the dust settles, the crew has skipped town with their money but very few sales to show for it. There is a John Landis documentary called Slasher that chronicles pretty much the same kind of cultural sinkhole, although it's a more crucial look at the grift behind it all.
That's about the whole plot. The humor comes not from the picture's setup but, rather, the absurd behavior of its characters. Mr. Piven does an able variation on Ari Gold, the acid agent from "Entourage"; his Don Ready is crude and slick and pushy and funny all at the same time.
Jeremy Piven stars as Don Ready, a gun for hire used car salesman, the kind of gentleman a struggling lot brings in to lucid some inventory and make a few quick cash.The sales staff at Selleck cars features a number of familiar faces playing kooky roles. Ken Jeong ("The Hangover," "Knocked Up") plays an inept salesman, as does Tony Hale (Buster from "Arrested Development"); together, they be trained the tricks of the business from Don and his team. One of the funnier turns comes from Rob Riggle, who plays a 10-year-old with a thyroid condition that makes him appear 30 (and turns him into an object of desire for Babs).