Get Him to the Greek

I loved Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I enjoyed all the characters, except for one. Aldus Snow. He bothered me. He didn't seem like a real person, he was too over the top and just not a believable character. He was funny though. Lucky for me, I got to see him again. This time he seemed more believable.

In the dubbed 'spin-off' of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, a music industry staff member Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) comes up with an idea to save his company: a ten year anniversary rock concert at the Greek Theater featuring Aldus Snow. There is a problem with this idea. Snow is on the decline. He had just come out with an album titled 'African Child' which was poorly recieved by every critic across the world. Just think of anything offensive, and it probably was on that album. The movie starts on set of the 'African Child' video shoot. It basically tries to do what Forgetting Sarah Marshall did with their music videos, which is push the boundary line of offensive or joking and funny. Unfortunately, this tries to have a comic twist to something as unfunny as impoverished African children and culture. It's really up to the viewer to decide whether it is funny to them, or if they have gone too far. Anyways, Green gets the green light from his producer (P. Diddy) to do this concert, the only catch being that he has to go to London to get him back to LA; and he only has 72 hours to do so. At this point the viewer will know that it's not going to be easy to accomplish this.

When I had first heard about this movie and saw that it had the same director from Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I was unbvelievably excited to see this. Then I found out that it had different writers. 'Ssrah Marshall' was written by its star Jason Segel, and 'Greek' was written by director Nicholas Stoller. There is a noticable difference in the two films. Forgetting Sarah Marshall had much less gaps in humor and seemed to have more focus. This movie seemed to drag a few times, but it made up for it when it was funny. The central theme of getting back to doing your passion because that is the only thing that makes you happy was really well displayed once they got to the ending of the movie. Overall, this movie was very strong but had a few weak parts. But you should go see it nonetheless.


Rating: 3 out of 4 stars