Get Him To The Greek Starring Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, and Sean Combs Directed by Nicholas Stoller Rated R A better exploration of the excess and dysfunction of rock n’ roll and the music industry than it is an outright comedy, Get Him to the Greek is surprisingly dark, often manic, definitely inspired, and occasionally fantastic. Occasionally. Some of that has to do with the Apatow school of filmmaking, which has a penchant for taking the laughs where they come, but never in place of the actual story. So if this isn’t as funny as the trailers make you believe, that’s because this movie is not completely about getting a rock star on stage at the Greek Theater. The rock star is Aldous Snow ( Russell Brand ). Aldous was a character in Forgetting Sarah Marshall a couple years ago for the same director, Nicholas Stoller . Brand may or may not be extremely limited as an actor, but he sure as hell knocks this one dead. It’s one of the signature rock star performances; there’s not a moment when he is not the tempermental, hard living lead singer of Infant Sorrow. Ten years ago, the band played the Greek, and the resulting album was one of the all-time best-selling live records ever made. In an effort to boost not just his employer, Pinnacle Records, but the slumping music industry in general, record company lackey Aaron Green ( Jonah Hill ) pitches an anniversary show to his boss ( Sean “Diddy” Combs ). Having suffered a public break-up with his girlfriend Jackie Q ( Rose Byrne ) and an equally public flop called African Child – which the press chides as being the worst thing to happen to black culture since the Rodney King beating – Aldous agrees to do the show. Aaron is flown to England to retrieve the singer, guide him to The Today Show , and arrive in Los Angeles a couple days later for the show. Simple enough? Snow is a force of nature, so it’s never as easy as getting on and off planes. There’s drinking, women, drug muling, more drinking, and more drinking. After seven years on the wagon, Aldous crawled back into the bottle after the split from his girlfriend, and based on his constitution, it must have been a doozy of a break-up.
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Movie Review – ‘Get Him To The Greek’
