I'd rather watch Behind the Music with Black Sabbith

Rating: 4/10 (28 October 2010)

We're normal people, we live normal lives and go about our daily tasks. But what if for a couple of weeks, we got to hang out with Montley Crue who you could easily say was one of hard rock's most crazy bands and has some extreme stories that one could only dream to tell. We could never party the way they did or any other hard rock band, but we don't even have that type of a band any more. But in Get him to the Greek we have one last rock star who does and that's Aldous Snow. A spin off of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, this movie capitalizes on it's most favorite character. However even though he does remember dating Sarah Marshall, Jonah Hill is a completely different character from Forgetting Sarah Marshall. So I wasn't sure if this was a continue on Adous Snow's character or the story. But let's assume that it's different, this falls into the more predictable comedies. We'll have some gross out jokes, some weird forced jokes, then gross out jokes and a heart felt message that makes you just go "awww" at the end.
Rock star Aldous Snow releases an album and an accompanying single "African Child." The song and music video flops, is banned and called "the worst thing to happen to Africa". His girlfriend Jackie Q takes custody of their son, Naples, and leaves him; as a result, Aldous hits rock bottom by drinking and doing drugs excessively once again. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Aaron Green works as a low-level talent scout at Pinnacle Records. Pinnacle Records has lost a lot of money, so the head of the company, Sergio Roma, asks for ideas. Green proposes to have Aldous Snow play at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles for the tenth anniversary of a particularly famous performance there. One month later, he sends Aaron to London to retrieve Aldous. After retrieving Aldous from his apartment, Aaron tries desperately to control Aldous' rambunctious behavior, which causes them to miss several flights. They bar-hop across the city for several hours, leaving a trail of women and alcohol. Taking Aaron on a ride that even Montley Crue would say to chill out on, he parties like a true rock star.
The one thing that I could say that got a huge laugh out of me with this movie was Sean Combs aka "P. Diddy". Him at the end with Aldous trying to bring Aaron back to life from an overdose and P. Didddy is just fighting with all these people and then gets hit by a car while running in the streets was just priceless. There are some occasional good moments in this movie, but I would say that over all it's forgettable. There wasn't anything special about it and I liked having Aldous just in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, here he seems so forced on you that you have to like him because he parties. I also found the scene in the airport where Aldous asks Aaron to shove drugs up his behind very unbelievable. Come on, no one saw that while he was doing it in public?! Then let's add in Aaron puking every 5 seconds, how is that funny? The movie just seemed so forced and could have been so much better with another writer. It's a rental, that's about it, it has a few chuckles, but it's nothing special.
4/10