Get him to the Greek

Jonah Hill and Russell Brand, how can Get him to the Greek not be funny, right? Well it was funny in parts and it was slow in parts. This movie made me realize the genius of The Hangover. Sometimes it's funnier not to show the craziness, because you are always going to build it up as even more crazy in your mind. In The Hangover, we don't see what happened that night until the credits roll, and by that time we are so hyped we really don't care any more. We have already built it into the greatest night in the history of Vegas.

This is where Get him to the Greek lets us down. We follow Jonah Hill's record industry flunky character as he tries to get rock star Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) from his drug den in London to a come back concert at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles. There is a lot of partying and wildness along the way, as well as some sentimental moments as Hill's character is experiencing girl problems. The thing is that the wildness and partying is never as crazy on screen as it is in our imagination. While it is funny, it's like a sugar rush, it soon fades and leaves us feeling a little down.

The best thing about this movie is the crazy record company president, Sergio Roma, played to the hilt by Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. His character is so believably insane, that you sometimes wonder if they let the camera's roll and he's just playing out his life. He also has one of the best lines of the movie, and as with any Apatow Joint, there are a lot of great lines. He is talking to his staff about needing to make more money, when he says, "I have six kids. Do you know how many Air Jordans six black kids go through?" Who knew P. Diddy was so funny.