Life In The DPC!

In effort to maintain some semblance of integrity in this blog I must offer full disclosure that I am an Adam Carolla fan. I catch his show while cruising to work on the 51 and for the most part I’m always in a better mood by the time I get there. Of course I loathe my job so one would be apt to assume that Carolla must be a funny cat to keep me in high spirits while cruising to impending doom.

Due to grooving to Carolla’s radio show six days a week I felt inclined to rent his first movie production The Hammer.From what I have gathered from listening to his show The Hammer is Carolla’s life and in the movie he stars as Jerry Ferro, a carpenter that recently turned 40 who finds himself down on his luck. As the movie plays out he finds himslef unemployed and back working in a gym as a boxing instructor. Ferro was once a promising talent in the square circle but a lack of focus and dedication led to him getting out of the ring but he makes an unscheduled comeback after an excellent sparring contest.While teaching his boxing class he falls for one of his students, played by Heather Juergensen,and an unlikely romance begins to blossom.

For the most part,  I was entertained by The Hammer but I was also disappointed. Disappointed  because the Adam Carolla show is funny and the movie had flashes of his radio comedy but these moments were fleeting and for the most part the movies was a very subdued version of his usual act.

Overall I would give the movie a C+ and I am going to assume that The Hammer was a toned down version of Carrola’s cinematic vision. Since this was his first Hollywood endeavor he needed to appeal to a wider audience and many parts of The Hammer had romantic comedy vibe and his somewhat crasser humor may not appeal to all demographics.