Wearing a low budget nicely, writer-director Ben Rood's workplace comedy covers the one day in the downwardly mobile lives of best pals who subsist as movers, here stuck with the proverbial customer-from-hell. But the heroes are some pretty problematical movers as well, so (unlike the furniture) it's a proper fit.
Closing on their ten-year high-school reunion, Ryan (Shawn Knox) and Chad (Andy J. Carlson) have little to show for it. Ryan dropped out of pre-med school due to personal issues, especially a bad breakup. He pines for an ex, to the disgust of best-pal Chad, who himself lost his firefighter job under shady circumstances.
They now labor together as hired muscle for a relocation company called Movers Ultimate, and are curiously in demand by customers—despite a distinctively bad attitude about the work. The duo responds to an assignment hauling the possessions of manic recent divorcee Meredith (a scene-stealing turn from Annalise Poorman) and her kids (two of them played by actors conspicuously a decade too old for the roles, but oh well) to their downsized new home.
Travails include Meredith's gross underestimates of the scale of the project, an upbeat and clueless new-guy-on-the-job (Grant Kennedy Lewis), and the prospect of a company promotion for the mildly more responsible and polished Ryan threatening the bromance of the two leads. The slight but entertaining antics (shot in southern Ohio and allegedly heavily improvised) keep things rolling surprisingly fluidly through an hour and a half. Anybody who has worked at dull, ill-respected manual employment can relate all too clearly. Buyers may want to know that R-rated profanity comes with that territory, however.
The list of movies about moving is a small one—perhaps the minor Richard Pryor vehicle Moving (1988) and the UK obscurity The Chain (1984) come to mind. With cult potential for the restless, young male demographic nurtured on Clerks (1994), Movers Ultimate ships with a recommendation for general entertainment shelves in public libraries.