Crude but brilliant

Rating: 10/10 (6 June 2010)

Get Him to the Greek is an entirely different creature than Forgetting Sarah Marshall, so if you are looking for a Forgetting Sarah Marshall 2, you will be sorely disappointed. If, however, you're looking for a roller coaster ride of depravity, crudity, mockery, and unfathomably grotesque yet ridiculously funny, this is the movie for you. I have not laughed so much or so hard in a movie in a long time.
The Aldous Snow we see here was not quite the character we might have expected from the brief caricature we glimpsed in Forgetting Sarah Marshall; but then, the Aldous Snow we see in Get Him to the Greek is a creature so riddled with drugs and alcohol, he hardly knows where he is from one day to the next. Heck, we hardly know what to expect from him one minute to the next, which is half the fun. Russell Brand's Aldous Snow was brilliant, and displayed Brand's versatility. This Aldous Snow was believable (much more so than the Aldous we loved from FSM). He was in turn hilarious, tragic, overstated, insightful, overbearing, stubborn, demanding, and sarcastic as I could have hoped for. Did I mention hilarious?
Sean Combs was the big surprise. Sergio - what can I say about Sergio? The best lines in the movie were given to Sergio, and I am not sure many could have pulled them off as brilliantly as Sean Combs did. I will be laughing for weeks.