Get Him to the Greek and Judd Apatow Productions
By TheLawnWrangler 7 Comments
Get Him to the Greek is the first semi-sequel of an Apatow Production, using one character from Forgetting Sarah Marshall; the loud, crass, "sexy" british rock star Aldous Snow. Of course, you remember him for being a calm guy and always talking about his sobriety, but it seems the life of the common rock star got to him, and he's back on the booze and drugs. Strangely enough, even though Jonah Hill had a small role in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, his character in this one is totally different from the slacker Aldous Snow fan Matthew. Now he is some sort of record intern whose job is to get the coked up, buzzed up Aldous Snow to the Greek Theater in L.A for an anniversary performance, since the music industry is going down the toilet (the trailer said it, and it sounded confusing to me.)
That 2 minutes up there isn't that bad. I had a few laughs, especially from P Diddy's character, and the writing seems well adapted and intertwined with the regular improv you'd expect from an Apatow Production. I feel the same satirical tone that Forgetting Sarah Marshal gave off, and that's a good thing because it was really well done in FSM. I hope that Aldous' drunken/drugged up rampages and such don't go way overboard, and that the movie will give Jonah some more screen time. I also hope that he isn't annoying in this one either.
I personally think that this will do well, giving a good second start to Apatow Productions this year, so they could recover from Year One. Man was that a bad movie. Do you look forward to seeing this? Did you like Forgetting Sarah Marshal (I sure as hell did)? Do you like Judd Apatow Productions in general? Are you still looking forward to a Pineapple Express/Superbad sequel? Were you even looking forward to such a thing in the first place? Discuss!