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
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
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
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