After seeing the preview for Get Him to the Greek, I was left wondering if the movie would live up to the preview. Did they put the only good parts in the trailer? Fear not, this movie is one of the funniest I have seen in a long time. Expect drugs, sex and rock and roll combined with hilarious antics, great acting and uproarious cameos from Lars Ulrich to Christina Agulera, Tom Felton, Pink and Mario Lopez.

Russell Brand returns to the big screen as Aldous Snow. Brand first played Snow in Forgetting Sarah Marshall in 2008. In Get Him to the Greek, Snow’s music career as front man to Infant Sorrow has gone down the drain after the release of the horribly racist song, African Child. The song was meant to express the loneliness he felt but can only be summed up as a massive failure. What can you expect with lyrics like “there is a little African child trapped inside of me.”

Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) is given the task of trying to get the drugged-up, washed-out, sex-crazed Snow to the Greek theater in Los Angeles for a concert. Green realizes that his idol is not who he imagined when he is put through three days of hell while acting as handler for the star. He has horrible experience after horrible experience trying to save Snow from himself.

Green’s struggles are only made worse by his psychotic boss, Sergio (Sean P. Diddy Combs.) While trying to be helpful, Sergio tends to make Green’s job only more challenging by encouraging him to play along with Aldous’ mischief, no matter how humiliating.

In a drug induced stupor the duo travels through London, New York, Las Vegas and finally Los Angeles dealing with Snow’s dysfunctional past. While they don’t seem to make any headway into fixing things for Aldous, Green’s life gets a whole lot worse.
Get Him to the Greek is bawdy and raucous; taking you places you may not want to go, but will laugh the whole way. This was a role made for Russell Brand and he stole the show, coming off as loveable despite all his problems.

Rated R
Universal Pictures
Run time: 1 hour 49 minutes
Written, and Directed by Nicholas Stoller
Produced by Nicholas Stoller, Judd Apatow, David Bushell and Rodney Rothman