For anyone who’s wondered if the over-extended, over-exposed Kevin Hart has “stopped trying,” it’s worth catching up with “Me Time,” an earlier stop on his Netflix content train that’s back on the streamer.

It pairs up Mr. Buddy Picture (“Ride Along,” etc.) with Mark Wahlberg (“The Other Guys”), no stranger to the comedy genre himself. The farce was written and directed by John Hamburg, whose “buddy” credits go back to “Safe Men” (1998) and include ” I Love You Man.”

And it doesn’t work. It should have, but it doesn’t, despite Hart’s best efforts.

His many pratfalls, frantic in his over-reactions to everything that goes wrong for a stay-at-home-dad (“Housewife”) trying to motivate and raise two children, keep a high-flying architect wife (Regina Hall) happy, volunteer at school and catch up with his former bestie Huck (Wahlberg) during an epic “Big 44” birthday party built to resemble a near-actual-size Burning Man/Coachella Festival pretty much comes to naught.

“HuckCHELLA!”

Wahlberg goes as over-the-top as he thinks this comedy, which also throws in Jimmy O. Yang as a loan shark, a digital mountain lion and its cub, a babysitter who turns out to be a stripper and John Amos as a grumpy father-in-law, requires. No dice.

There’s barely a laugh in it, most of them provided by musical interludes –Hart, playing a guy who gave up his music dream, duets with Seal, and Hart, as a micro-managing school talent show organizer, keeps rejecting an elementary schooler who delivers increasingly heartbreaking versions of Leonard Cohen’s iconic “Halleluhah.”

But that’s it.

Ducking Huck’s “come celebrate with me” calls until his distracted wife insists he get some “me time,” stumbling into Huck and friends skinny-dipping, riding the Huck party bus into the desert with a gang of unfunny strangers, figuring out Huck’s money troubles — the hard way — and trying to “grow” through all this as his wife may be falling for a rich “tooth fairy” dental care guru (Luis Gerardo Méndez), trying to get revenge in the “chess match” with that very unfunny guru, almost none of it merits so much as a smirk.

And when you give your all to something that was probably never going to work thanks to the script, “stop trying” can’t help but cross your mind. If only Hart had taken this as a sign that he needs to stop taking every Netflix/Amazon Prime offer and focus on finding good projects and making them funnier instead of taking the cash and phoning it in.

Rating: R, substance abuse, nudity and profanity

Cast: Kevin Hart, Mark Wahlberg, Regina Hall, Jimmy O. Yang, Ilia Isorelýs Paulino, Anna Maria Horsford and John Amos

Credits: Scripted and directed by John Hamburg. A Netflix release.

Running time: 1:41