Forgetting Aldous Snow

Rating: Null/10 (18 March 2011)

Russell Brand reprises his role as Aldous Snow in this spin off of 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall'. The film starts off hilariously summarizing the rise and fall of rockstar Aldous Snow mocking many celebrity couples. Once Jonah Hill's Aaron Green makes his entry, the story shifts on Green getting Snow ready for a comeback concert and their pukish and sometimes funny adventure together. I would say that this film is somewhat better than the usual non-funny comedy that comes out of the Apatow factory. Expectedly, there's plenty of repetitive toilet humour and that does get annoying but most of the other tongue-in-cheek commercial works well. The pacing is sluggish at times and the movie feels very long. Russell Brand is great as the washed out rockstar. Jonah Hill is a lot less annoying than he usually is. Rose Byrne is terrific. P.Diddy Combs is wooden. Obviously, 'Get Him to the Greek' is not to be taken too seriously. It's easily forgettable but it did make me laugh a couple of times.