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Fandango latest reviews Search movie Jonah Hill and Russell Brand in "Get Him to the Greek." showtimes and buy The Sorcerer's Apprentice tickets. Get Him to the Greek Inception Something Better Somewhere Else Wild Grass about us BY ROGER EBERT / June 2, 2010 more current releases » About the site » Aldous Snow is the sort of one-minute movie reviews rock star who can seriously Site FAQs » propose himself for the role cast & credits of White African Jesus. still playing Contact us » What would his duties be? Aaron Green Jonah Hill He has no idea. It's just the Aldous Snow Russell Brand The A-Team Email the Movie sort of thing he throws out Jackie Q Rose Byrne Accomplices Answer Man » to keep people on their Daphne Binks Elisabeth Moss Babies toes. Aldous was first seen Jonathan Snow Colm Meaney Cell 211 as a rock star, clean and Sergio Roma Sean Combs on sale now sober, in "Forgetting Sarah Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky Cyrus Marshall" (2008), and he Universal Pictures presents a film returns in "Get Him to the Daddy Longlegs directed by Nicholas Stoller. Greek" as a wild man deep Written by Stoller, based on Despicable Me into a relapse. characters by Jason Segel. Running Dogtooth It is the task of an earnest time: 108 minutes. Rated R (for Exit Through the Gift Shop and square young man strong sexual content and drug The Father of My Children named Aaron Green (Jonah use throughout, and pervasive Get Him to the Greek Hill) to fly to London and in language). The Girl Who Played with Fire Buy now » exactly three days get The Good Heart Printer-friendly » Snow (Russell Brand) to Grown Ups New York for a "Today" E-mail this to a friend » Harry Brown appearance and then to Los Angeles for a Holy Rollers comeback concert at the The Human Centipede Greek Theatre. "Get Him to I am Love the Greek" is the story for those three days, and nights, which pass Inception in a blur for the innocent Green. They are a blur for Aldous as well, Iron Man 2 Buy now » but then, that's his lifestyle. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work Jonah Hex The movie is funny in the way of "The Hangover" about what trouble lads can get into when their senses are whirling. Unlike some Just Wright depictions of binges, it doesn't shortchange vomit. The adventures of The Karate Kid Aldous and Aaron remind me of a friend I used to meet on Saturday The Kids are All Right mornings for what we called Drunch. "Sometimes," she said, "it can The Killer Inside Me

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be really exhausting having a good time." Knight and Day The Last Airbender Aaron, who has been threatened with flaying if he doesn't deliver Letters to Juliet Buy now » Aldous on time, panics when he can't get him to Heathrow for the right flight, can't get him to "Today" on time, can't get him to the Love Ranch sound check at the Greek, and very nearly can't get him to the Marmaduke Greek. Aldous for the most part floats benevolently above these Micmacs small misunderstandings. When it comes to himself, he's a very La Mission understanding man. Mother and Child A Nightmare on Elm Street There are really two movies here. One is a gross-out comedy that 9500 Liberty grows lyrical in its exuberant offensive language, its drug excesses, October Country Buy now » its partying, its animal behavior. 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In a movie A Small Act jammed with celebrity cameos (New York Times columnist Paul Solitary Man Krugman?), we see bits of her music videos, which, incredible as they may be, aren't entirely improbable. We are so deep into post- Something Better Somewhere Else irony that it's hard to be sure if a video is intended to be bad. The Sorcerer's Apprentice Splice Buy now» The reason the friendship works is that Russell Brand and Jonah Hill The Square are good actors. Hill's character is required to be blotto half of the Survival of the Dead time, but there's the sense that he's desperately trying to do the right Toy Story 3 thing. Russell Brand is convincing as a rock star, imperious, self- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse destructive, smarter than he seems, calculating, measuring out wretched excess in survivable portions. When it comes time for him The Twilight Saga: Eclipse to sing, he does it convincingly, with songs that sound like real rock Vincent: A Life in Color songs. I was reminded a little of Rod Stewart. Who Do You Love? Wild Grass The urgency of Aaron's mission depends entirely on his fear of The Wild Hunt Buy now» Sergio Roma (Sean Combs), the owner of Aldous' record label. Winter's Bone Combs is convincing in early scenes as an egotistical, hard-driving more current releases » music executive. Then his character has a comic flowering in later Make $6795 scenes, as he reveals his true rock and roll roots. He can party at top speed and send Aldous onstage at the Greek, despite a bleeding on dvd Per Month In wound from a jump from a rooftop. That Aldous may collapse your city onstage does not occur to him. And indeed Aldous rises to the new on dvd Millionaire Shows occasion, as from many reports a lot of rock stars are able to do. Local Mom How They may not remember their performances, but they were great. The Runaways (7/20) To Turn $100 Into Mother (7/20) $6795//Mo. 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