The Fury Wall

Rating: 9/10 (13 July 2010)

A very funny film starring Russell Brand and Jonah Hill.
Aldous Snow (Brand) was a sober and highly popular rock star. He became concerned by poverty to African children, so went to Africa to try and help the problems with starving children there. He released a single titled 'African Child' and according to critics, it was the worst thing to happen to Africa since the apartheid. So he loses his great reputation, his girlfriend Jackie (Rose Byrne) leaves him so he starts to use drugs and alcohol to the excess. He goes off the radar. However though, head of Pinnacle records Sergio Roma (P Diddy) needs new ideas as his company is in dire straits. One of his employees Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) suggests that his one time hero Aldous Snow should play at the Greek theatre in LA to commemorate a highly famous performance there ten years previously. This could earn a load of money due to the release of a CD, DVD etc. and great commercial interest from sponsors. Sergio agrees to this and Aldous agrees. Aaron is given the task of going to London and taking Aldous to LA and making sure he is ready to perform at the Greek Theatre on the given day. Aaron is also told to agree and do everything Aldous says. Yet with Aldious living this excessive Sex, Drugs, Alcohol and Rock & Roll lifestyle, will Aaron really do everything Aldous tells him and will he get him to the Greek on time...
This is a good film, with some great comic performances. Russell Brand was great as Aldous really living the excessive rock stars lifestyle to the hill and P Diddy was great as Sergio, how I laughed when he has everyone in his household singing 'Daddy's favourite TV show' (even his wife) when his TV show comes on. Yet the greatest performance in it came from Jonas Hill as Aaron. He was the one you had to identify with. He was the man whose own welfare didn't matter and he had to put himself last all the time, being exploited to the limit by Aldous and Pedro. How much exploitation could he handle. Being forced to drink excessively (absinthe) and take drugs (Jeff) was one thing. Being made to smuggle Aldous's drugs out of an airport (heroin) and being raped by a woman in a nightclub at Sergio's request was another thing and what's more being made to have a threesome with his girlfriend Daphne(Elisabeth Moss) and Aldous was a different thing all together. He was excellently exploited.
'Get him to the Greek' is not one of the 'classics'. I have seen better films and I will see better films, yet it succeeds in being very funny and when I say very funny, I mean belly laughs. If you want to be entertained and you want to find yourself laughing, then I strongly recommend this picture.