Some movies really do need to come with a health warning. “Get Him to the Greek,” for instance, should inform all moviegoers that that it packs enough laughs in under two hours to make you hurt all over. Along with the usual beautiful gut-wrenching pain, the comedy is so potent that it can hit you as high as the throat.
For a year now, we have been waiting for a movie as hilarious as the runaway smash hit “The Hangover,” and that movie has finally arrived. I’ll even be as bold to say that upon repeat viewings, “Get Him to the Greek” could prove to be better. And I’m not being sensational to grab attention or to wind up on the DVD case; I think I laughed harder, louder, and more consistently.
“Get Him to the Greek” is a spin-off of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” and it manages to make the movie that introduced us Aldous Snow look like the ugly step-cousin in every way. It’s infinitely funnier; the characters are more interesting; the plot is more absorbing. I didn’t think Brand was all that funny in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” but now it’s clear that the emotional aspect of the movie weighed him down. Here, he is unleashed and immature as ever. And it’s an absolute riot.
Brand and Jonah Hill, who plays young record label employee Aaron Green, are the “Odd Couple” for a new generation. A pairing such as theirs might be labeled a “comic man-straight man routine,” but the movie neither fits those labels nor feels like a routine. Both get the chance to side-splittingly hilarious, and it absolutely works. As much as I expected Brand to run away with the movie, Hill gets some of the best laughs of the movie as he tries to adjust to the crazy antics of the rockstar he’s attempting to control.
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