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Bringing Russell Brand (The Tempest), Jonah Hill and producer, director, Nicolas Stoller together again the film catches up with fading rocker, Aldus Snow (Brand), as his career is thrown a life line by record studio exec Aaron Green (Hill). Signing him to a show at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, Aaron has a small window of opportunity to get Aldus to the States for the start of the show’s promotion, while his boss Sergio Roma (Sean “Diddy” Combs) breathes down his neck.
The onscreen dynamic is alright and the situations are a little too obvious, but like I said there are some funny moments that make the film worth a watch; like the presence of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich and Aldus’ performance on the Today show.
Get Him to the Greek is overall OK. You watch it, you chuckle occasionally and you move on, but it’s not the watch-over-again brilliance of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. The attempts at pathos don’t really click and the characters are hard to buy into, so the humour just doesn’t work as well as it could have. However, the special features on the extended party edition - including deleted scenes, alternate & extended scenes + alternate intros and endings - add a bit more value to the film.
3.2/5
So I watched Get Him to the Greek on DVD the other day and it turns out that it doesn’t really live up to the potential that Forgetting Sarah Marshall implied. It’s not that there weren’t funny bits, it’s just that they were fewer and farer between. Feeling a slightly forced, the film was a bit of a throwaway DVD choice in the end.