Get Him to the Greek (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition)
Jonah Hill and Russell Brand reunite with the director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall in this outrageous comedy about Aaron Green (Hill) an aspiring music executive who has 72 hours to deliver the wild rock legend Aldous Snow (Brand) from London to Los Angeles for a comeback concert. In order to keep his job Aaron must navigate a minefield of mayhem and debauchery to get Snow to the world famous Greek Theatre on time! From the producer of Knocked Up and Superbad comes the movie that?s ?a raucous r
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Jason C. Wilkerson said
September 3 2010 @ 7:36 pm
Review by Jason C. Wilkerson for Get Him to the Greek (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition)
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Sergio (Sean Combs) is looking for the next big thing to bring in revenue for Pinnacle Records. Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) suggests that they bring Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) to the Greek Theater in Los Angeles for the tenth anniversary of his last live concert there, which was the highest selling live album of all time. As a result Sergio sets up the concert and gives Aaron the task of escorting Aldous from London to Los Angeles in 72 hours. But since Aldous is off the wagon getting him there might be a little harder than Aaron imagined.
The character of Aldous Snow was first conjured up by Jason Segel and brought to life by Russell Brand in the 2008 movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Not too long after the release of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, director Nick Stoller announced they would be doing a spin off movie based on Aldous Snow falling off the wagon, and that movie would star Russell Brand and Jonah Hill, albeit, in a different role than Hill played Marshall. While the idea seemed intriguing, and the character of Aldous was brilliant in Marshall, I have to admit I had some reservations about the idea of a spinoff focusing on Aldous as a main character. So how did the movie turn out?
It turns out I had nothing to worry about. While the premise might sound a bit contrived at first (and the trailers don’t help that feeling when you see Combs’s character bring it up) the plotting feels nothing less than organic. While at times over the top, it never truly feels over the top, making the world these characters live in feel real. Part of the reason for that is the characters have been perfectly rounded out. One of the things that I was worried about, was in Sarah Marshall Snow wasn’t completely fleshed out nor did he need to be, he was a blissed out rock star, and you really didn’t need to know more about him for his role in the plot. For Greek writer/director Nick Stoller gives the character a soul, and Russell Brand does a great job of breathing life into that soul.
Speaking of Russell Brand, he might have stolen every scene he was in during Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but here he’s upstaged, not by Jonah Hill, but (dare I say it) Sean Combs. I never would have expected that I would be saying anything of the sort, but Sean Combs truly steals the movie playing a music executive who’s the spiritual brother of Tom Cruise’s Les Grossman from Tropic Thunder. Everyone does a great job in their roles, but it’s Combs and Brand that really make the movie.
Of course not everything comes up roses, the movie suffers from a nearly cliché third act that stops nearly dead in it’s tracks as it gets overly serious. It’s understood that in a movie where they show excessive drug use and debauchery things are eventually going to have to come to a head for the characters, at the same time this probably could have been handled in a more entertaining manner. About half way through the third act though things pick up, but it feels like a long way through the third act before they bring back the funny.
Overall I highly recommend this movie, and I wouldn’t be surprised if when all is said and done at year’s end this remains the funniest movie of the year. If you like other movies produced by Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Superbad, Pineapple Express, Knocked Up, and most definitely Forgetting Sarah Marshall) you’ll most likely, almost definitely love this movie. Come for the brilliant performances of Russell Brand and Sean Combs, stay for the Vegas scene with the Jeffrey, trust me!
4/5
M.Dickerson said
September 3 2010 @ 7:50 pm
Review by M.Dickerson for Get Him to the Greek (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition)
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I was desperate to get out of the house one evening, but didn’t know what film to go see. My daughter saw this movie was playing. She convinced me to go, and I had nothing else to do. Russell Brand is excellent as a rock star. When I go to the theater, I often fidget in my seat, mind wandering, waiting for the film to end. But with this film the time flew by, I forgot all my problems, and laughed and laughed. I liked it so well, I took my son to see it a week later, he didn’t want to go, but went anyway at my urging. He is very hard to please with movies. He love it as well. I’m just now waiting for it to come out on dvd.
Haunted Flower said
September 3 2010 @ 8:35 pm
Review by Haunted Flower for Get Him to the Greek (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition)
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Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3KG5DO92YADHN Gina from Haunted Flower reviews “Get Him To The Greek” starring Russell Brand and Jonah Hill about a rock star and his record executive charged with getting him to his concert on time no matter what.
L. Power said
September 3 2010 @ 8:46 pm
Review by L. Power for Get Him to the Greek (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition)
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About two years ago, Forgetting Sarah Marshall introduced Russell Brand who played her British rock star boyfriend Aldous Snow. In that movie he managed to steal every scene, and really had the rock star persona down. Not only that, it turns out that he is an excellent standup comedian, and an author, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Upalthough his book about his addiction fueled adventures while witty and intelligent, is not for the faint hearted, yet mirrors somewhat the journey he takes here.
When I was over in England some time ago, I learned that he got into some major trouble for a telephone prank call he did on a radio show with Jonathan Ross. It just went way too far, and Ross got suspended for several months from his tv talk show.. But I digress.
It’s no surpise that director Judd Apatow has now released this movie, featuring some of the same characters.
Jonah Hill, the guy who looks like Seth Rogen but isn’t, plays our hapless protagonist working at the record company, and his boss is Sergio (played brilliantly by Sean Combs). He has the girlfriend who works nights so she’s coming as he’s going, and she wants to move to Seattle from LA, end of discussion. The argument that ensues is classic.
He has the great idea to do a concert for Aldous Snow at the Greek, and so gets sent on a mission to get Aldous Snow to the Greek.
As you go deeper into the movie, you get swept away by the series of mishaps as Aaron attempts to keep his sanity while being dragged into the insanity that has become the rock star’s life, and many great comic moments ensue.
I went to see this movie because of Russell Brand, and I enjoyed it mostly because of Jonah Hill, who I feel has developed tremendously as an actor. The one scene that struck me as a little off was the normal arm movement for the concert scene, considering that something rather serious had just happened to Snow’s arm.
I rather enjoyed Get him to the Greek and I would rate Forgetting Sarah Marshall as perhaps slightly better. I think it’s fair to say that if you enjoyed one, you will enjoy the other. I hope you found this review helpful.
Ed Uyeshima said
September 3 2010 @ 8:54 pm
Review by Ed Uyeshima for Get Him to the Greek (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition)
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There are moments that are laugh-out-loud riotous and there are others that are purely head-scratching, but the net effect of this raunchy, often clever 2010 anti-buddy comedy directed by Nicholas Stoller is genuinely positive. This is his second feature after 2008′s Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which served as the introduction to Russell Brand’s character, Aldous Snow, a sexed-up, heroin-abusing, non-sequitur-spouting British rock star. In this screenplay co-written by Stoller and Jason Segel (who also co-wrote and starred in “Sarah Marshall”), Aldous has been on the skids since the release of a publicly reviled album called “African Child” – denounced as the worst thing to happen to Africa since apartheid.
What’s worse is that Spice Girls-inspired pop star Jackie Q, his longtime girlfriend and mother of his child Naples, has left him for Lars Ulrich, the longtime drummer for Metallica. Meanwhile, Sergio Roma, a megalomaniacal label executive, is about to release Aldous from his contract when puppyish young staffer Aaron Green comes up with the high-risk idea of a comeback concert in LA, marking the 10th anniversary of Aldous’ landmark show at the Greek Theater. The rest of the story is a Hangover-type road movie of sorts between Aaron and Aldous, as Aaron has to fetch the rock star in London and get him to LA in time for the concert three days away. Predictably, nothing goes as planned as Aaron, in the throes of a sudden break-up with his overworked hospital intern girlfriend Daphne, gets seduced by Aldous’ narcissistic excesses.
What becomes less predictable is how Stoller and Segel choose to deepen Aldous enough to give the character a sense of introspection about his besotted life, including a side trip to Vegas where he reunites with his estranged father, a guitarist for a Rat Pack tribute show who is jealous of his son’s success. At the same time, Roma is in hot pursuit to make sure Aaron does his job, and everyone gets involved in a drug-fueled mêlée that should serve as the definitive anti-drug commercial. Brand completely stole “Sarah Marshall” from his cast mates, including Kirsten Bell, who played the title role and shows up in an unexpected cameo. Given this is a vehicle for his character, he manages to show more dimension to Aldous without losing sight of his hilarious comic creation (his opening video is hysterically tasteless). In a comparatively more constrained role, Jonah Hill manages to be regular-guy funny and brings surprising heart to put-upon Aaron.
Together Brand and Hill convey a convincing sense of trust between the characters despite their opposite tendencies. On the sidelines, Rose Byrne shows real comic chops as the uninhibited Jackie Q, while Elisabeth Moss of “Mad Men” makes Daphne far more than the wet rag she is set up to be in the story. Colm Meaney effectively plays Aldous’ embittered father during the film’s most serious scene, while Sean Combs is quite funny – in a good way – as Roma. It should come as no surprise that this whole venture was produced by Judd Apatow since his fingerprints are everywhere given all the comic and often crass male bonding throughout. Stoller’s uneven direction explains the fluctuating variations in the movie’s tone, and like every Apatow movie, the film runs about twenty minutes too long for the slight story being told. Brand and Hill, however, make an engaging duo no matter what.