The Freak's Rating: B- : Russell Brand takes much criticism for being a one-trick pony. Though he may only have one character of worth to bring to the silver screen, Brand is insanely adept at bringing this trick perfectly to stage.
Get Him To The Greek brings back one of the key characters from Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Aldous Snow. The rocker was perhaps the funniest part of Marshall and the primary reason it was so entertaining. Snow returns in a far raunchier version here, full of obscenities and yet somehow twice as likeable as he was the first time around.
For as much critique as Brand has taken, the real critical focus should be on Jonah Hill, who has failed to bring an original character to film since Superbad. Failure to do so barely hurts the film, since Brand rarely relinquishes a moment to anyone else. Hill has a few moments, but nothing special here. Sean "Diddy" Combs has a mediocre roll here as a record producer (wow, what a stretch). Acting all around, with the exception of Brand, is decent at best.
Writing is good, with decent jokes tossed in and a semi-interesting storyline. The film does go a tad off course a few times, most notably an incredibly awkward menage a trois and an entirely too long drug-up-the-butt sequence.
Get Him To The Greek won't win a single award, even on MTV, but Brand's performance is fantastic and it is worthy of any Marshall fan to see.
