Get Him to the Greek

Hey look, it’s another movie with that fat guy in it. That was my first reaction. My second was, “hey, it’s that one dude from Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which had Kristen Bell in it so it was pretty enjoyable!” Then I found out that he’s playing the exact same character, which is cool. Both movies are by the same guy so he can do stuff like that. There’s even a fun little nod to Sarah somewhere in the middle.

This is quite a different movie though. Sarah Marshall was pretty reserved really, a pretty cautious sort of touching comedy. Get Him to the Greek is both-barrels-blazing shocker full of laughs from start to finish. It’s at least partially music oriented too, so that’s pretty neat. The story is about this one fat guy Aaron who works for a record label, and they need to make some money. Aaron’s a fan of this rocker dude who used to be mega popular, but then released a real drug-fueled catastrophic stinker of an album and fell from glory. The fat kid figures since it’s been a decade since rocker dude’s seminal concert at the Greek Theater, they should put on an anniversary show. He’s eventually given the task of bringing the rocker over from England or somesuch place back to the US. Then the fun begins.

Aldous Snow (the rocker) does drugs and stuff. Aaron isn’t that kind of guy, but he’s been told by his boss to enable Aldous as much as possible so he’ll put on a good show. Aldous of course doesn’t care much about that part, more just doing crazy drug/women stuff and making Aaron take part. This is in rather violent opposition to Aaron’s lifestyle of quietly submitting to his girlfriend’s wishes. He doesn’t seem to resist all that much though once it gets going.

Aside from the raucous happenings, there are several relationship threads that come up, providing a little relief from the insanity, but often weaving into it as well. We’ve got daddy issues, girlfriend/ex troubles, is-he-the-daddy-or-not fun, and awkward sexual encounters among friends. Many funs.

I had the most fun with all the barely concealed innuendo in all of the songs, and Puff Diddy/Daddy’s dialog was often hilarious. There’s a pretty fun cameo or two here and there which were pretty cool too. Gotta say though I’m not the biggest fan of Jonah Hill, AKA that one fat guy. It might not be because of his acting skills or anything though. I dunno. Anyway the movie’s hilarious. I laughed a bunch.