Director: Nicholas Stoller
Detailing the excesses and absurdities of the pop music industry is a tad bittersweet as the era of radio-aided rock hits fades into the background. Still, Get Him To The Greek is an often funny look at this diminishing world. Russell Brand is perfect reprising his role as Aldous Snow from Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and Hill is passable as his shepherd. I do wish Hill had lost at least 30 pounds so that the idea of him picking up girls throughout the film is at least plausible.
One thing that's interesting about the Apatow network of films (here he merely produced) is how meta-entertainment so many of them are. Knocked Up is about a television reporter, Forgetting Sarah Marshall is about a TV composer and actress, and Get Him... uses at least five different television shows to generate easy recognition laughs in the early going. Paul Krugman's cameo in this is perhaps even more confusing as Dr. Joyce Brothers' in The Naked Gun.
i felt like this suffered from that condition of comedy-halfdom where the first half is a barrel of fun and good times, and the second is when the plot just breaks the magic and makes it feel heavy and not funny. overall 2 and a half for me, but the first half was 3 and a half easy for me
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