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100So comically fertile and yet so grounded in the reality of its characters that it's really a kind of marvel.
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80This is very much Brand's movie, with Hill playing a surprisingly subdued straight man. Still, the strong supporting cast - including Rose Byrne and Elisabeth Moss as the guys' girlfriends - easily holds its own.
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80As an encore for Brand's Aldous, it's a welcome return. And for Hill, it's a chance to really shine.
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80What transpires gives fresh meaning to 'sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.'
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80The movie's story is conventional in shape, but it has passages of crazy exhilaration and brilliant invention.
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75Under the cover of slapstick, cheap laughs, raunchy humor, gross-out physical comedy and sheer exploitation, Get Him to the Greek also is fundamentally a sound movie.
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75Extremely raunchy, Get Him to the Greek is also very funny
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75Great? No. Great fun? Oh, yes. Like Sergio and Aldous, this movie messes with your mind, then tickles it.
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75Turns out to be the funniest hard-R comedy since "The Hangover."
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75If "Sarah Marshall" spawned Aldous Snow, maybe there's room for a Sergio Roma vehicle?
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75What's missing in Get Him to the Greek are the supporting characters that made "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" so engaging.
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75The mercurial Brand is spot on as the mercurial Aldous, putting over outrageously titled tunes with panache.
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75A clever rock-world satire, with some lively take-offs on the TMZ-gossip magazine circus, but it's also too long, and by the time of the inevitable Las Vegas sequence, it starts to grow repetitive.
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75The movie is like an old vinyl LP; the best cuts are on the first side, there's a bangup finish and a lot of filler material in between.
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75Hill, dialing back on the pissy vulgarity of his supporting roles in "Knocked Up" and "Funny People," makes the perfect foil, as passive and impressionable as Brand is reckless and impulsive.
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70The funniest bits in the movie are, by and large, the small, offhanded gags stuffed into the corners.
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Get Him to the Greek, is a mess, but an amiable and occasionally uproarious one due mostly to Russell Brand's reprising of his role as Aldous Snow.
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70Get Him to the Greek displays the bawdy-sweet mixture that is the signature of the Judd Apatow school of screen comedy.
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70Barring a few lapses, the gags fly by in rapid-fire fashion, and enough of them connect -- thanks in part to the amusing mix of Hill's hang-dog demeanor with Brand's lanky, relentless hedonism.
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70As in "My Favorite Year," the laughs all come from seeing a nervous innocent pulled into the star's debauchery, the heart from our growing realization that debauchery is just emptiness with the volume cranked.
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67Brand can seem simultaneously randy and strung-out and is often very funny. Hill is surprisingly touching.
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63The volume is pitched high, perhaps so you won't notice how lackadaisically structured the picture is. Get Him to the Greek isn't really a story but a collection of comic set pieces.
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63Mostly, this frantic film is yet another attempt at "Spinal Tap" silly. At times it goes for the heart of "Almost Famous," and its sense of rock is that of a barely acquainted observer.
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63The concept is inspired, and the movie has some very funny moments. But about halfway through this long weekend, the frantic tale grows flimsy.
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63If the movie's all too predictable in its broad outlines, it's scurrilously funny in the details, and it pushes its two leads and one of its supporting actors in entertainingly fresh directions.
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63What it does have going for it are its lead actors -- Brand and Hill both know exactly how to deliver a punch line -- and a lead character who represents one of the best bits of rock 'n' roll satire since "This Is Spinal Tap."
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63It's not quite infectious, but some of the high notes manage to drown out some of the guttural lows.
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60Like most of the recent exports from Apatown, Get Him To The Greek -- aka Russell Brand's My Filmy Wilm -- is patchy, but home-run hilarious from time to time. If only it didn't detour into darkness so often, this could have been a genuine treat.
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60When the movie remembers to be the drug-spiked, hard-R comedy you hope for, it's more than just a fun romp (and, incidentally, superior to "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," the rom-com from which its Britpop libertine spins off).
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60The seriously out-of-control hard R dude is writer-director Nicholas Stoller, who apparently has major trust issues with his odd-couple stars, women and the audience. Did I forget anybody?
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60There's no buildup, no narrative arc, just one scene of comically debauched partying after another.
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55Brand's character, who combines Bono's moral sanctimony with Keith Richards' supernatural hedonism, ultimately doesn't add up.
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50Never achieves the propulsive traction and outrageous/endearing balance that made "The Hangover" such a smash this time last year.
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50Before it goes off the rails into strained sermonizing, this sorta-sequel to 2008's delightful "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" gets in big laughs.
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Unlike its forebears, "Greek" lacks a truly sympathetic central character to hold things together when it's time to get sappy.
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50The film feels like a collection of sketches instead of a mad, three-day, drug-and-sex-infused whirl.
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50An uneven but surprising movie, often outrageously funny and just as often completely flat.
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50Shaggily amusing but familiar and way-too-long.
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42This final act goes on far too long and devolves into such a miasma of pap that it's clear Stoller had no idea how to wrap things up.
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