Download Get Him to the Greek Full Movie
Download Get Him to the Greek Full Movie
Download Get Him to the Greek Full Movie
Nicholas Stoller’s Get Him to the Greek, a pseudo-sequel to 2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall, is not a great film. Neither is it piss poor, or bad, or unenjoyable, or lacking in good jokes, nor is it filled to the gills with them. Nor is it average or middling. It’s enjoyable without being fluffy or faux-sentimental. It really feels unlike any other recent comedy, with perhaps the exception of Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
It’s a film that thrives not on jokes, as the Judd Apatow canon films have done to an extent, but instead upon situations and characters — a trait more indicative of Jason Segel than of the rest
of the Apatow crowd. The film’s simple premise of Jonah Hill’s good-natured but naive Aaron Greene escorting rock disaster Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) to a comeback performance facilitates unexpected commentary on the current media zeitgeist of absolute crap, from TMZ to Good Morning America to recycled pop music and former rock gods descending into an abyss of studio control and drug abuse.
It’s a much smarter movie than the advertisements let on.
Stoller’s script leaves tons of room for improvisation and character beats, and while often this can lead to dead air and awkward pauses, it also grounds the film in a more relatable reality, one that often proves quite enjoyable. Many of the films assets are in the performances — Stoller’s script is so loose that seven minutes can be spent watching a manic Colm Meaney throw platters at P. Diddy. Hill is
great as a leading man, but perhaps this isn’t a showcase performance for his dramatic talent the way Cyrus could be.
Russell Brand, however, makes the film his own. Before Get Him to the Greek, I had a severe distaste for him, finding him arrogant and irritating. This film makes it apparent, however, that he’s clued into his own low-rent Jack Sparrow act, and the third act of the film is host to a bunch of dramatic beats that really reveal his talent. If you can get over his schtick, you’ll enjoy him quite a bit.
My main beef with Stoller’s film is that he’s unable to seamlessly blend the heavier emotional stuff with broad comedy the way that Apatow can weave in and out effortlessly. As a result, some stuff feels out of place and too heavy, while other stuff feels way too light and uncharacteristic of what we’ve come to expect of our main characters.
That doesn’t detract from the whole picture though — Get Him to the Greek is pretty much a riot, made all the better by the fact that the advertisements don’t sell away the more hilarious moments. It’s hard to pin down a concrete reason why I really walked away jazzed with the film, but that’s to its benefit. In a summer that’s pretty dry in all genres, especially comedy, Stoller’s film is a gem.
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