Get Him to the Greek is Forgetting Sarah Marshall’s dirty rotten cousin. It’s crude, disgusting, reckless and awkward. It’s Almost Famous posing as your drunken uncle’s binge trip. And it’s really, really funny.
Written and directed by Sarah Marshall’s Nicholas Stoller, Greek isn’t a sequel so much as an abstract spin-off devoted to Russell Brand’s Aldous Snow persona, a cheesy British rock star fallen from the sobriety wagon into a deep, druggy abyss. Jonah Hill plays Aaron Green, the eager young music biz employee Aldous is dragging down with him. It was Aaron’s brainchild to stage a comeback concert for the disgraced Snow, and he’s got three days to make sure that happens. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime, and a misstep into a life he is in no way capable of living.
