Get Him To The Greek

What Jack Says...

Get Him to the Greek is supposed to be a sequel to Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but I think it missed the mark a bit. Sarah Marshal is debatably one of the funniest movies of the 2000's and it is pretty hard to follow that up.

I had huge expectations for this movie and I think it might have been my downfall. When they say that this movie is a comedy I think it is very loosely based on a comedy. Like a lot of comedies these days it took an unexpected turn into seriousness and I don't think it was absolutely necessary.

Russell Brand is one funny fucker. You can't deny that shit so don't even try. However, I think that the script worked against him. The director from Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller) decided to take his had at writing this one and it was nowhere near the genius of Sarah Marshall. In Sarah Marshall I think you genuinely cared about the characters, though in this one the characters were unsympathetic and you didn't necessarily care what was going on with anyone. There were a few unnecessary vulgar moments in this one as well that just went too far.

Oh yeah, and Jonah Hill was in this movie though you would never know it. His screen time was limited and when he was there he made no impact at all. I don't blame this on you Jonah at all. I know you are funny, too bad the script wasn't.

Overall, this movie was schizophrenic, slow the rest of the time and a poor representation of what Russell Brand is really capable of. If you want to see some good Russell Brand check out his stand up or Bedtime Stories. He doesn't have to be vulgar to be funny though I enjoy it very much.

I give this one a 4. Pretty big disappointment.