Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
Most of the time, the banter doesn't sound like banter; the movie shares Sasha and Paige's unforced shorthand.

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : Time Out New York
Limited by the same arch tone and flippant jokes that suffocate every other low-budget indie about Gen Y confronting adulthood.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
The charming story about millennial confusion is deftly written by Susanna Fogel (who also directs) and Joni Lefkowitz, and the dialog actually sounds like the way a pair of smart and funny twentysomethings might really talk.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
Fogel's focus is female friendship, and the challenges presented by growing older and pairing up. It all makes for a rocky road, regardless of the romantic rival's gender.

Name : Frank Scheck / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The two stars display a winning chemistry in this amusingly observant study of female friendship.

Name : Inkoo Kang / Alias : TheWrap
"A waxen falseness suffuses the stilted, stubbornly generic picture. Like the fast-food mozzarella sticks one of the characters devours in moments of existential woe, it feels like a calculated imitation rather than the real thing."

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
Fogel refuses to pander by pretending that the girls can fix everything with a hug. Sacrifices must be made.

Name : Ronnie Scheib / Alias : Variety
A well-scripted, intriguingly-acted effort to mine the theme of prolonged adolescent best-buddyism through two women.

Name : Katie Walsh / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Meester and Jacobs have an easy, authentic chemistry, but there isn't enough structure or storytelling thrust to sustain interest in the plot: Triumphs, calamities and reunions keep happening, but none contains real dramatic heft.

Name : Sandy Cohen / Alias : Associated Press
It's tricky territory to tread, and Get Hard doesn't always get it right, but in a nation where racial and economic divides are growing issues, it deserves credit for trying.

Name : Inkoo Kang / Alias : TheWrap
There's a daring comedy somewhere inside writer Etan Cohen's directorial debut, which simultaneously trivializes and solemnizes the prospect of prison rape.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
Get Hard turns out to be a far cry from something like Trading Places or even the clever first half of the class-insurrection comedy of Tower Heist.

Name : Liam Lacey / Alias : Globe and Mail
Not entirely unfunny.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Get Hard is one limp noodle.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
Get Hard is hard to sit through and hardly funny.

Name : Joshua Rothkopf / Alias : Time Out
Only the humorless will frown at Ferrell's easy way with white-guy entitlement. "I'm going to be attending San Quentin," the Harvard grad sniffs, almost as a point of pride; later, after tasting thug life, he calls it an "ambrosia of primal sensations."

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
A lazy attempt to drag out a Funny or Die-style skit to feature length by continuously recycling about eight minutes worth of gags.

Name : Lisa Kennedy / Alias : Denver Post
It trucks in stereotypes (black, white, Latino, female - the list is long) and plays clumsily with sexuality. Still, the movie's greatest and altogether familiar sin is that it's stupid.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
The highest praise I can give "Get Hard" is that it is not quite as awful as it could have been.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
A confused and contradictory mess.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
I laughed when Ferrell smashed a bottle of beer on the sidewalk, just to show he's tough, but if that's a movie's standout bit, that movie's no standout.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
"Get Hard" isn't edgy enough to be offensive or witty enough to be challenging. It's just dumb.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
If you're disturbed by white-collar crime, but not quite as disturbed as you are by gay sex, then congratulations: You might possess just the right combo of social conscience and unexamined homophobia needed to fully enjoy Get Hard.

Name : Andrew Lapin / Alias : NPR
It's still ultimately a disposable work, but at least while it's going, it hits hard.

Name : Cary Darling / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Since anyone who has seen the trailer has already seen many of the film's best moments, making it through to the end does feel like something of a life sentence.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
A movie that refuses to recognize when it's going too far, with its wince-eliciting jokes about jailhouse rape in particular.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
The movie seeks to make you laugh while also risking offense by going too far. It succeeds on both counts.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Hart and Ferrell may not be Pryor and Wilder, but they score several laughs in this slim comedy.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
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.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Dumb, juvenile comedy has its place when it's funny. Unfortunately, too often in Get Hard, it's not.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
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.

Name : Tony Hicks / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
"Get Hard" is worth a look for fans of Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart. And the two do work well together. But anyone with a low tolerance for politically incorrect stereotyping and lowbrow humor should sit this one out.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
Ideally, this would be Blazing Saddles for folks who chug kombucha. Yet it's harder to satirize race today than it was 40 years ago - more sensitive times impose gentler jokes.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
This is a horrible idea for a movie. It is, however, a decent idea for an extended sketch, and that's how the first two-thirds of the movie plays.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
The dubious merit of tiresome "don't drop the soap" jokes aside, "Get Hard" sometimes veers perilously close to committing the very sins it aspires to criticize.

Name : Kevin C. Johnson / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The film's numbing lack of intelligence, exhibited from the start, makes "Get Hard" tough to watch, even by Hart/Ferrell standards.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
Anal rape jokes and racial stereotypes dominate this third-rate comedy.

Name : Christopher Orr / Alias : The Atlantic
Ferrell has stuck to the formulaic farce that made him a star, even as his roles have been shifting from antic instigator to bewildered straight man.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
Before the movie has even really begun, it's already fudging its own premise and undermining its satire.

Name : Richard Corliss / Alias : TIME Magazine
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.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
Will you laugh? Absolutely. Could this have been a better film? Definitely.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Get Hard is not only a bad movie but a profoundly wasted opportunity.

Name : Betsy Sharkey / Alias : Los Angeles Times
With Ferrell and Hart involved, it's probably impossible for anyone to completely resist their baser instincts to be amused by the patently offensive. Though it's hard not to wish more moviegoers would.

Name : John DeFore / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
It already seems more dated than Trading Places - not to mention less savvy about all the subjects it pretends to be addressing while it tries to make us laugh.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
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.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Subtly, not in a way anyone would notice without looking for it, the movie switches back and forth, giving each comedian a chance to be the funny one and the other to lend support.

Name : Molly Eichel / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
The germ of an interesting idea in Get Hard is completely overshadowed by the onslaught of jokes meant to be boundary-pushing and edgy.