Get Him To The Greek

Hello and welcome to the second Bumbles' Review, I was going to be writing about 'Did You Hear About The Morgans' tonight, but if any of you out there have seen it then you will undoubtedly understand why I cannot bare to type more than these 3 words; Waste. Of. Time. Please if you haven't seen it and are thinking about it then just go and punch yourself in the head for a little over 100 minutes because I promise you it will be more enjoyable.

As the title suggests you will be reading the thinkings and wonderings that flowed through my brain while watching 'Get Him To The Greek', the sophomore directing credit for Nicholas Stoller (the spin off from his debut film 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall').

If you enjoyed anything written, directed and produced by Judd Apatow(i.e. Superbad, Anchorman, Knocked Up and Funny People) then Get Him To The Greek is definitely for you! It runs along the same line of sex and drugs jokes but things are a little different with Get Him To The Greek. The basic plot is Aaron Green, played by Jonah Hill, is sent on a mission by his boss Sergio (Sean 'Puff Daddy' Combs) to go to London and get once great rock star Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) to The Greek theatre in LA in just 72 hours for a 10 year anniversary gig for his live album recorded in the same theatre.

One of my favourite things in this film is the songs performed by Aldous Snow and the band, Infant Sorry. They are all full songs that you can listen to on the soundtrack (and if you discount the lyrics, actually sound like real rock songs). I don't know if the delivery of this character from Brand is actually acting or just him being himself, but either way he is a likeable character for all the wrong reasons.

Brand and Hill have amazing chemistry together on screen, there is 2 halves to the duos relationship, one is Aldous trying to get Aaron to score drugs for him, but the other is Aldous trying to get Aaron out of his shell and loosen up, even if he does have to make him smoke 'a Jeffrey' to do so.

I don't think I have laughed at a film quite so much since The Hangover, whether it is Jonah Hill sticking a balloon of heroin up his arse or Puff Daddy getting hit by a car, this film does not fail to make you laugh, just like every film with Judd Apatow's name attached to it. But unlike Apatow's other flicks The Greek has put the story behind the characters, and while the characters are strong enough to carry the film it would have been nice to feel a bit of urgency to get to the theatre before the deadline. Some of the best scenes in the film actually come out of the characters relationships rather than needing to get to The Greek. One of my favourite young actresses Elizabeth Moss shines in these relationship scenes and I hope she goes on to bigger and better things by way of comedy or drama.

Overall Get Him To The Greek is lacking some plot points that aren't there purely there to get a cheap laugh, but saying that the cheap laughs make this film funny enough to stand with the likes of The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up.

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