A comedy about an ambitious 24-year-old intern, Aaron (Jonah Hill), who has been given a career-making assignment. His mission: fly to London and escort a rock god to L.A.’s world famous Greek Theatre for the first-stop on a huge comeback tour. His record mogul boss, Sergio (Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs), gives him one warning: “The artist is the worst person on Earth. Turn your back on him at your own peril.”
British rocker Aldous Snow (Russell Brand, reprising his character from Forgetting Sarah Marsall) is a brilliant musician, but due to a bad break up and nose-diving career, has fallen off the wagon and is now a drunken disaster. Weary of 'yes men' and scared he’s entered the 'greatest hits' moment in his career, Snow’s in the midst of a nihilistic downward spiral...
Catwoman, Wolverine, Elektra, Evan Almighty, The Scorpion King. Spin-off movies don’t exactly have a great record with most lacking a decent script and invariably looking like they were cobbled together in a big hurry. However, while Forgetting Sarah Marshall might also not have been the most obvious movie to inspire a spin-off, like Madagascar’s Penguins (who’ve ended up with their own TV series), the producers have wisely chosen to focus on Marshall’s scene-stealing standout.
The character of Aldous Snow makes full use of British comedian Russell Brand’s physical attributes, laid-back cool and distinctive vocals and he plays it up to the hilt. Writer-director Stoller gives his star plenty to play with in this substance-fuelled, music-industry-baiting comedy that’s a kind of The Hangover meets Crank via Be Cool.
While the film is a little long and Hill’s character (like Jason Segel’s main man in Forgetting Sarah Marshall) a little too whiny, there’s never too long between gags. Greek works best during the many cleverly scored mayhem montage scenes (a highlight involves absinthe and a French version of The Turtles’ Happy Together), and when parodying today’s over-sexed music videos, but be warned it most certainly isn’t for the easily offended or those of sensitive dispositions.
By James Croot, Flicks.co.nz
Hmmm, this sounds familiar... a young up and comer in the music biz is charged with getting a famously drunken and drugged up rock star to a comeback concert and comic chaos ensues... Anyone recall Richard Benjamin's "My Favorite Year" (1982)? It starred Peter O'Toole as Alan Swann (a character based on Erol Flynn) a drunken matinee idol who is to appear on a live 1950's U.S. TV show. Young Benjy Stone (a character based on Mel Brooks) is the TV show's junior writer who is charged with getting the drunken movie star to the TV show... Easier said than done! And just like "My Favorite Year" the idea is fine and delivers a few fun scenes (notably Jonah Hill tripping out and cuddling furry wallpaper...) and some nice back n forth between stars Jonah Hill and Russell Brand, but it's all pretty tired. Hats off to Sean 'P. Diddy' 'Puff Daddy' Combs who does a great turn as a music mogul - simultaneously playing and poking fun at himself. As a stoner farce it works well, but it's no great shakes. For pure rock comedy give me SPINAL TAP every time! Mind you, it's better than FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL - so 3 stars for being a spin-off that beats its original hands down :)
I have to be honest, I couldn't bring myself to watch the whole lot. Perhaps I just wasn't in the mood for this type of movie... but honestly? It wasn't as funny as it could have been, or should have been! I mean, it sounds good on paper...
only a gud movie if ur in2 the whole rock star image.i didnt enjoy it as it was pretty tacky :( russel brand 2 words...acting classes
Worth watching during the week when your in favour of something light, especially if you've seen forgetting sarah marshall and can tolerate Russel Brand.
"Its not that funny at all, Just alot of partying,alot of drunkness, and alot of washed up dry Toilet Humour, seen it to much in comedy films, wheres the originality"
Under the cover of slapstick, cheap laughs, raunchy humor, gross-out physical comedy and sheer exploitation, Get Him to the Greek also is fundamentally a sound movie.
British comedian Russell Brand, as the gregarious, lizard-hipped, sexaholic rocker Aldous Snow, stole the show so thoroughly in his big Hollywood debut, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, that they simply had to give him his own movie to run away with.
Never achieves the propulsive traction and outrageous/endearing balance that made "The Hangover" such a smash this time last year.
The seriously out-of-control hard R dude is writer-director Nicholas Stoller, who apparently has major trust issues with his odd-couple stars, women and the audience. Did I forget anybody?
Get Him to the Greek displays the bawdy-sweet mixture that is the signature of the Judd Apatow school of screen comedy.
We've been told the NZ release date for this flick is Thursday, 17th Jun 2010.
Release date: June 17th 2010.
We haven't received times for this movie in this location yet. However these are updated as cinemas announce them, so check back soon. Hopefully the lovely cinemas in your location will choose to play it shortly. ~Ed.
