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Get Him To The Greek
Does Get Him To The Greek, the latest movie from the Judd Apatow and friends universe add or subtract to the lexicon of successful raunchy teen comedies? Director and co-writer Nicholas Stoller and Jason Segel, who reprises his rock god Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) from their earlier work together, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, both try their best or do they?

Things start promisingly with lowly record company serf Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) sent to England to chaperone Snow to a career re-establishing show at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. There are a lot of funny moments as well as a stand out performance by P Diddy as record company CEO Sergio Roma.

When the film is unashamedly raunchy, it’s quite funny but midway through it starts to sermonise and that tends to dry up the humour. There are even a few scenes that are quite uncomfortable to watch. This could be due to less that energetic script writing or even just a lapse of direction but the end results is a good set-up and a poor execution.

The film still has more than its share of laughs but with the group responsible having set a fairly high standard already, it does come up a little short. See it for its funny first half, the star turn by P Diddy and some very humorous cameos by Pink, Kurt Loder and Lars Ulrich.
Rob Hudson
www.gethimtothegreek.net


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