Get Him to the Greek, is a film with all your typical story elements, the passionate and down to earth protagonist, the very particular know it all boss with nerves of steel and the out of control rock star.
So, what's great about the film? Everything. The writer/director does a good job taking all those typical elements and putting very strong performances to back them; Jonah Hill and Russell Brand's on screen chemistry is ridiculously harmonized throughout the film, there's never a dull moment when they are both on screen.
The plot is simple, a recording label needs something to re-ignite their revenue stream so a young aspiring intern by the name of Aaron (Jonah Hill) comes up with a brilliant idea to resurrect Aldous Snow's career by moving off the momentum of Aldous Snow's anniversary of his famous live performance before his major flop "African Child."
Yes, Russell Brand's character is the same one from Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the director does a good job at poking fun at that fact, in respect to the universe in which the two comedies thrive in.
That one portrait of the "Sad Clown" comes to mind whenever I watch comedies involving fame, money, passion, and realism. Especially, when it's coming from the new age writing that Judd Apatow seems to favor so much, the painful realization of watching people who make people laugh for a living end up getting kicked in the ass by reality is almost like a voyeuristic guilty pleasure for me; the audience.
4/4
-DK
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