Saturday, June 26, 2010

Film Review -- Get Him To The Greek (R)

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Directed by Nicholas Stoller
Released June 4, 2010

I wanted this movie to be good. I promise you. I went into with a good heart. High hopes. References. Everything. But it failed.

To this day I have heard people say this "sequel" of Forgetting Sarah Marshall was "really funny" and I am still trying to figure out - WHAT WAS FUNNY? Do you still find it funny to hear Russell Brand's erotic songs that aren't that creative? Or are you still riding the "Jonah Hill can do anything he wants and it is funny" bandwagon? Or were you just desperately wanting to see P. Diddy try to act? WHICH ONE IS IT!?

I digress - it is another variety of the ever popular bro-buddy comedies that have become the norm these days. But Russell Brand and Jonah Hill are just two guys who, although different and unique enough to create a good on screen duo, just don't do it for me. And I like Jonah Hill. But I think I don't like Russell Brand. At all.

This is a pretty bad review because there isn't really much to review. From the commercials you have seen all you need to see to understand the plot. And yes - it ends EXACTLY how you think it will after watching 5 minutes of it (with one really, truly awful threesome scene that was made for 15 year old kids who giggle when they think about eating pussy that had NO REASON to be in the movie). And there was this. That was actually pretty damn funny.

2 out of 4

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