Get Him to the Greek (2010)

Rating: 6/10 (26 December 2011)

I was cautious of this film. I'm not a brand fan, but thought he was excellent in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. However, that was a smaller role. Now he's the star. Is Aldous Snow good enough to carry his own feature? Just about. The scriptwriters give him a bit more backstory, involving a failed marriage, and do eventually give an an emotional focus as a sad and lonely rock god. The film is also very funny, though this may have been aided by a bottle of wine. One scene had me laughing, uncontrollably, with tears streaming down my face. It involved Brand, Hill, Diddy and Colm Meaney, on drugs, screaming and a furry wall. The humour is broader than Marshall, with plenty of vomit, drug and sex gags. At almost two hours it is stretching its welcome, but I was very entertained.