Get Hard
Warner Bros. | Release Date: March 27, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
34
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 43 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
21
Negative:
19
Watch Now
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Buy on
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On
Expand

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMar 26, 2015
It matches up two comic actors and instead of clashing or canceling each other out, they bring in the best possible result: A comedy with twice the laughs. Read full review
65
TheWrapInkoo KangMar 25, 2015
Ferrell and Hart don’t bring anything that we haven’t seen from them before, but they create a bouncy, playfully defiant rapport. It’s promising enough that you wish they could have made a movie in which they’re just making us laugh, instead of leaving us wondering how every third scene could be made less offensive. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMar 28, 2015
Dumb, juvenile comedy has its place when it's funny. Unfortunately, too often in Get Hard, it's not. Read full review
60
TimeRichard CorlissMar 27, 2015
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 full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfMar 26, 2015
Miraculously, the movie doesn’t feel mean-spirited so much as profoundly awkward. Scripted by smart guys like Etan Cohen (Idiocracy, Tropic Thunder) and two behind-the-scenes writers on TV’s consistently excellent Key & Peele, the film feels both daring and foolhardy. Read full review
60
The GuardianAlex NeedhamMar 17, 2015
I don’t believe that Get Hard sets out to be hurtful, and there are some good gags... but it does seem dumb and dated. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerMolly EichelMar 27, 2015
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 full review
50
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzMar 27, 2015
If you love rape jokes, Get Hard is your movie. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMar 26, 2015
It's all wildly uneven, but some bits really are funny. Ferrell plays his usual clueless character, but he's good at it. And it turns out a toned-down Hart is a funnier Hart. But Cohen can't keep a handle on it all. Worse, he has no feel for when the satire goes too far. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMar 26, 2015
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. And yet I didn’t hate it because Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart had such terrific comedic chemistry. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayMar 26, 2015
Ferrell and Hart have a genial, easygoing chemistry and Get Hard manages to score more than a few good points about facile assumptions and toxic hypocrisy. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerMar 25, 2015
Ferrell and Hart are too likable and crowd-pleasing to let the movie collapse around them. But they’re also too talented for something this wan. Read full review
50
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonMar 24, 2015
Get Hard is most comfortable — and funny — when Cohen gets back to skewering class warfare. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreMar 24, 2015
Ferrell is as fearless as ever, stripping down and looking foolish, willing to be out-of-touch and out of step. Hart has his manic moments. But in this buddy comedy, the buddies are not equal and that limits the laughs. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeMar 17, 2015
A passably silly but lowbrow buddy comedy. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyMar 25, 2015
Get Hard is not only a bad movie but a profoundly wasted opportunity. Read full review
40
Total FilmMatt MaytumMar 31, 2015
Laughs are few and far between in a comedy that proves the combo of talented performers and an intriguing concept are no guarantee of success. Dispiriting stuff. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMar 27, 2015
The real problem is that Get Hard’s very idea of edge is itself pretty stale. 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 full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottMar 27, 2015
Is it funny enough to make for a wholly satisfying feature-length film? No, not really. Like so many films of Ferrell's, Get Hard feels rushed and uneven. Read full review
40
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMar 26, 2015
The highest praise I can give Get Hard is that it is not quite as awful as it could have been. Read full review
40
CineVueJames LuxfordMar 26, 2015
Asking little of its stars, and even less of any watching audience, Get Hard is a familiar studio comedy that barely succeeds in its attempt to drown out a thin plot with jokes that will appeal to people who have seen a lot of the actors' previous films. Perhaps the offensive thing about it is that we've seen this all before. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyMar 26, 2015
Get Hard just gets increasingly hard to put up with, full stop. Read full review
40
EmpireDan JolinMar 23, 2015
Belying its title, this is a pretty flaccid offering which fails to gel the comedy stylings of Hart and Ferrell. Read full review
40
Screen DailyJohn HazeltonMar 18, 2015
A raunchy yet slack-feeling comedy that seems to put as much effort into playing on racial stereotypes as playing for laughs. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyMar 27, 2015
Riding that fine line between misjudged and deliberately anti-p.c., Get Hard is lewd, crude and rude but, despite its disastrous reception at SxSW, not entirely unfunny. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTom RussoMar 26, 2015
Audiences are going to want to brace themselves, too – for a movie that refuses to recognize when it’s going too far, with its wince-eliciting jokes about jailhouse rape in particular. Read full review
38
New York PostKyle SmithMar 26, 2015
If the jokes in Get Hard were a set of Jeopardy categories, they’d read as follows: Things Will Ferrell Puts Up His Butt, Butt Rape, Shots of Will Ferrell’s Bare Butt and Satirical Comparisons of Violent and Nonviolent Crime Not Excluding Mentions of Balzac. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia PuigMar 26, 2015
Get Hard is hard to sit through and hardly funny. So unless you're really hard up for entertainment, stay away from this tone-deaf raunchfest. Read full review
38
Rolling StonePeter TraversMar 26, 2015
It's not easy hanging talents like Ferrell and Hart out to dry. But Get Hard gets the job done. It's one limp noodle. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyMar 26, 2015
Get Hard... is certainly a better name than, say, Laugh Hard, which you won't do nearly enough. Read full review
30
The DissolveNathan RabinMar 26, 2015
The deathly silence doomed to haunt theaters during Get Hard allows audiences far too much time to think about its problematic attitudes toward race, gender, sexuality, and class, as well as its borderline-nonsensical plot. Read full review
30
VarietyJustin ChangMar 17, 2015
Whatever one makes of Get Hard’s contribution to our ongoing national debate about race, class and sexuality, there’s no denying that too much of it simply feels cheap, flailing and tired. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianJeff BakerMar 26, 2015
It's OK to rip off/pay homage to a better movie, but the idea is to improve on it, and ideas one thing that's completely missing from Get Hard. Read full review
25
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallMar 26, 2015
Get Hard becomes an increasingly unpleasant comedy, wasting two very funny stars in a barrage of prison rape gags, lazy stereotypes, toilet stall indignities and insincere acceptance of people already marginalized in movies. Read full review
25
St. Louis Post-DispatchKevin C. JohnsonMar 26, 2015
This mess is guilty of being both racist and homophobic. And it’s as shamelessly lazy and crude as its title suggests. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMar 26, 2015
It's a mystery why two bona fide comic stars, working very, very hard to keep this thing from tanking, couldn't pressure their collaborators for another rewrite or three. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineDrew HuntMar 26, 2015
The filmmakers largely stand out of Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart's way, but they also refuse to modulate the story's racial humor with any sense of subversion. Read full review
25
HitfixDrew McWeenyMar 17, 2015
Competently made but morally repellent, Get Hard may be my least favorite Will Ferrell feature film. Read full review
20
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMar 26, 2015
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. Grinding on with dim humor and grim purpose, Get Hard gets ever harder to take. Read full review
20
SalonAndrew O'HehirMar 26, 2015
Cohen had neither the chops nor the clout to prevent Get Hard from ending up, no doubt through the normal process of producer rewrites, focus groups, worried agents and weevil infestations, as a confused and contradictory mess. More to the point, it’s almost never funny, and full of elementary screenwriting blunders. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierMar 26, 2015
Get Hard isn’t edgy enough to be offensive or witty enough to be challenging. It’s just dumb. Read full review
16
The PlaylistDrew TaylorMar 18, 2015
It's an absolutely horrible, amateurishly assembled comedy that is more offensive than just about anything we've seen lately, a non-stop parade of racist, homophobic bile that would be bad enough from any comedian, but coming out of Ferrell and Hart has the effect of watching a childhood hero committing some horrible act. Read full review
11
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovMar 25, 2015
Beyond a leper’s handful of jokes that actually connect, this might as well be Ferrell’s most abysmal piece of work since the disastrous "Land of the Lost." Read full review
More From This Movie

34 Critic Reviews

4.3 User Reviews

Details & Credits|Trailers

Current Movie Releases
By MetascoreBy User Score
1 81 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
2 77 Project Hail Mary
3 75 Send Help
4 73 Hoppers
5 72 The Sheep Detectives
SEE ALL
Essential Links
New on Amazon Prime Video
New on Netflix
Coming Soon to DVD/Blu-ray
SEE ALL