Get Him to the Greek
2010 · Directed by Nicholas Stoller
Original language: English
- adventure
- comedy
- music
The story
Pinnacle records has the perfect plan to get their sinking company back on track: a comeback concert in LA featuring Aldous Snow, a fading rockstar who has dropped off the radar in recent years. Record company intern Aaron Green is faced with the monumental task of bringing his idol, out of control rock star Aldous Snow, back to LA for his comeback show.
What it’s like
Bright, saturated comedy with the glossy sheen of 2010 digital: sun-drenched Los Angeles hotel suites, flashing hotel-pool blues, neon-lit club stages and sudden shifts into grimy London pubs and cramped tour buses. The camera is mostly handheld and restless, cutting quickly between mismatched pairs in close frame, with a soundtrack that leans on loud, cheerful pop-rock and a chorus of concert crowds rising through the film. It moves at a brisk, chatty clip, with long improvised-sounding exchanges that tumble into raunchy sight gags and rowdy running jokes. Its vibe is loud, cheeky and warm-hearted, a buddy comedy about an earnest, overworked intern and a self-destructive rock star slowly learning to rely on each other. Expect plenty of crude sexual humour, drug and alcohol excess, profanity and rude jokes, with some mild slapstick and tense scrapes but no real gore; the cruelty is mostly verbal and the violence brief and comic. It suits a loose Friday night with friends, a lighthearted rewatch, or a long-haul flight that needs something noisy and funny. It is for people who want rowdy, profane comedy with music and a big-hearted core.
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