Get Him to the Greek:

Directed By: Nicholas Stoller

Stars

Jonah Hill: Aaron Green

Russell Brand: Aldous Snow

With the success of forgetting Sarah Marshall Judd Apatow & friends decided to reprise the character of Aldous Snow, an arrogant self centered rock star. Only this time he is not sober, he is so far off the wagon that thee wagon is three states over. Hill is also back for the spin off film but not as Matthew the creepy obsessed fan from Hawaii but as Aaron, a nice up and coming agent at a record company who still happens to believe in the magic that is rock and roll and the power it holds. With the 10 year anniversary of Snow’s legendary performance at the Greek Theatre fast approaching the company decides to put on another show. Aaron is summoned to do the insurmountable task of heading to London to pick up Snow & bring him back to the United States. Seems easy enough right? Not when you have a drugged out party crazed rock star derailing your entire plan.

The characters is what really made the film work and their chemistry. Hill is a quiet straight laced good boy with a 9-5 and a routine, he doesn’t live much, just him and is girl friend is all that his life consists of. Snow is a scatterbrained selfish wreck of a star that hides behind women, drugs and booze. Not Much of a stretch for Brand but he’s still funny and makes it work.

This is Jonah Hill’s first time back as one of the main headliners since 08′s Super bad, only instead of a squeaky clean sissy looking Canadian boy he teams up with a limey reincarnation of Sid Vicious with the ego five times the size as John Lennon’s. The two are crazy opposite but they make it work. This film was so funny It could challenge as this summer’s hangover with the laughs constant and huge. There was a lot of slap stick style of gags and just goofy moments but there was a lot of funny one liners and the situations just got so out of control and outlandish that you couldn’t help but laugh your face off. But towards the end the film revealed some real truthful moments that gave it heart and made it more of an all around solid movie, not a stupid screw ball comedy where stuff happens for no reason.. Each goofy schenanigan is a stone that gets unturned to reveal a greater truth. Both bring a different comedic element to the film, but there is a third hilarious element; Sean “P Diddy ” Combs plays Sergio the insane boss & owner of the Pinnacle record company. He is three steps past crazy, some of the things he says and does are so hilarious and outlandish that sometimes you have to double take and say ” did he just say that?”

All in all this was a great film and a solid summer comedy which there seems to be a lack of.