Retro IONCINEMA.com
Review: Everything Must Go
It is perhaps no surprise that a director with a TV advertising background would make a movie so fraught with product placement (a 7-Eleven Slurpee is otherwise needlessly included in a scene that, due to strategic marketing, is also featured in the trailer), and which promotes the idea of corporate salesmanship as a route to self-awakening (Ferrell’s middle-school protégé absorbs advice from ‘The Sales Bible,’ whose book-cover — more tie-in revenue? — he holds conspicuously cheated towards camera). “I’m selling everything,” exclaims Halsey, in a moment of what passes in this movie for epiphany, “and it feels great!”
Everything Must Go
Click here to read the review!
It is perhaps no surprise that a director with a TV advertising background would make a movie so fraught with product placement (a 7-Eleven Slurpee is otherwise needlessly included in a scene that, due to strategic marketing, is also featured in the trailer), and which promotes the idea of corporate salesmanship as a route to self-awakening (Ferrell’s middle-school protégé absorbs advice from ‘The Sales Bible,’ whose book-cover — more tie-in revenue? — he holds conspicuously cheated towards camera). “I’m selling everything,” exclaims Halsey, in a moment of what passes in this movie for epiphany, “and it feels great!”