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Genre: Comedy
Directed by: Nicholas Stoller
Staring: Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Sean Combs, Rose Byrne
Released: June 4th,2010
THE GENERAL IDEA
Aaron Greenberg (Hill) gets things done. The ambitious 23-year-old has exaggerated his way into a dream job just in time for a career-making assignment. His mission: Fly to London and escort a rock god to L.A.s Greek Theatre for the first-stop on a $100-million tour. His warning: Turn your back on him at your own peril. British rocker Aldous Snow (Brand) is both a brilliant musician and walking sex. Weary of yes men and piles of money, the former front man is searching for the meaning of life. But that doesnt mean he cant have a few orgies while he finds it.
THE GOOD
The fun part of this movie is its characters, and most of the characters (everyone but Hill) were awesome. And Russel Brand was the icing on that awesome cake. Not only is his rockstar diva personality just a gem to watch, but he isn’t a shallow drunk getting into trouble. We really see that Snow is a broken man who has everything but nothing that matters. He has lost his girl (Rose Byrne) and their child, his career has hit a low with an offensive album called African Child and he hides his failures behind a facade built on drug abuse and liquor. He is very silly funny, but also very vulnerable and real. This made the film more than just a succession of gags and situation comedy. It has that too, but Brand nails this rockstar thing to the wall.
Even Sean Combs is awesome. I am not a fan of singers as actors, but he is playing the bossy over the top record exec and he might be chanelling the most outrageous aspects of people he met in the business. His supporting role was perfect in this.
There is a lot of funny in this movie. A lot. And some great cameos by people like Pink and Lars Ulrich and of course Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell).
THE BAD
Brand was one of my favourite parts of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which this story is a spinoff of, so why bother adding Jonah Hill when he isn’t playing the same character he played in Sarah Marshall? That was very disjointed and not addressed at all. Hill is an entirely new character and while he excells at fumbling through Aldous’ antics, he just wasn’t engaging enough for me to care about his character.
Considering Hill is almost half of this movie, he took a lot of the appeal away from me. Thankfully there was so much more to play against that was better.
OVERALL
Russell Brand makes this film. And every negative the film has is glossed over by his awesomeness save Jonah Hill’s constant presence. I am really growing a distaste for the guy. If they had anyone else in this movie but Hill this would have rocked more than Infant Sorrow.
I give Get Him to the Greek a 6 out of 10 And would have got much higher if not for Hill.
I enjoyed the movie and laughed through out. Is it possible that since you dont like Jonah Hill you have a dislike for all of his movies. His character could have been played by many different actors but they chose Jonah and he did an ok job. This will be one I do buy on DVD.
To me he was tolerable in “Sarah” just like that whole movie was.
he looked super skinny and sickly in the promotion of this film and kinda slimey as well.
He was terrible at the MTV awards a few years back and his humor is an aquired taste(and I like aquired taste comedians)but a little shitty for me.
that said the, premise of the film is quite catchy and he looks funnier in this that “Sarah”
DVD for me, maybee
i can’t stand brand at all. on top of that adding hill, that’s double annoying.
Agreed. He was funny in Sarah Marshall. But Russell Brand’s stand up was definitely some of the worst stand up I’ve seen in ages.
I think the problem with Hill is that he lucked into being a “biggish” name and really does not have a lot to back it up in on-screen presence, he is funny in the smaller roles he gets, but even in the smaller doses I never truly like him. I can hope he will go away, but fear they have lumped him into the comic brat pack and we will see far to much of him in the future for my liking.
“why bother adding Jonah Hill when he isn’t playing the same character he played in Sarah Marshall?” Many movies do that, most notably Kevin Smith with his films, having the same actor play multiple roles within the same universe.
Because Smith does it TOO MUCH is why it works. You dont count on anyone to be who they are.
This is a direct spinoff of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Hill is playing the exact same personality as he did in that film, but a totally different guy.
I’m going to watch this because Forgetting Sarah Marshall is so good, but have to agree that Hill should be a bit player in any movie and didn’t enjoy his quasi-lead in Superbad at all. That said, I really liked him in FSM
I take the 6-10 less seriously do to the fact that you already have stated you dont like hill….oh wait i cant stand him either forget it I will wait.