It’s funny, you see, because he’s white.
Will Ferrell vehicles have become the most boring Choose Your Own Adventure stories ever. You’re essentially given two options: Follow a bloviating egotist cut down to size via failure and physical abuse, or follow a nebbish gent forced to grow a sack via failure and physical abuse. Pick a path, throw in some gay panic and jokey cultural insensitivity, and voila: instant comedy.
Ferrell opts for the second option in Get Hard, playing a nebbish financial exec falsely convicted of embezzlement and facing 10 years in San Quentin. To prepare himself for life on the inside, he hires the owner of his firm’s in-house car service (Kevin Hart), assuming that because he’s black, he’s been locked up…