WARNING: Red-band trailer features language and crude jokes. If you are easily offended or aren’t old enough, don’t watch this…or at least wait until your parents aren’t around.
When I thi
nk of movies that should have spin-offs, Forgetting Sarah Marshall is never one that comes up. Yes, the movie was funny, but do we really need a movie based solely around the obnoxious rock star Aldous Snow, played by Russell Brand in the original movie? Apparently Hollywood thinks so, so here we are, with the trailer for Get Him to the Greek. According to the trailer, Jonah Hill’s character (not the same as his Forgetting Sarah Marshall role) has to get Snow from London to L.A. to play the Greek. This assignment is handed down to him by his boss, who is played by Puff Daddy. Hill has 72 hours, and has to deal with Snow’s crazy party life and get this assignment completed so he can move up in the music world.
I’m mixed about this movie. Russell Brand annoys me to the tee and while Aldous Snow worked in small doses before, I don’t know if I could sit there and watch a whole movie around him. Still, there are some funny parts to the trailer and it is the same director as Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Jason Segel, who wrote that film, does not write this though, so the humor may be completely different), so I’ll hold out hope. I could use a good comedy during the summer.
Get Him to the Greek comes out June 4, 2010.
The redband trailer offers very little more than what was in the original, other than a couple swear words. I think whoever cut it in the first place really liked the structure, instead of coming up with something ambitious. The movie’s got big potential, but it all hinges on how much Russel Brand people can stomach. Me? Not much.
I can’t stand Russell Brand and therefore don’t think I could take this movie. I also haven’t found myself enjoying any leading Jonah Hill roles aside from Superbad. Some actors weren’t meant to be leading men, and if either of these two were it certainly had nothing to do with the fact that this gimmicky type characters they play are the ones we want to see. Will Ferrell has fallen prey to the same nonsensical choices. Aside from Stranger Than Fiction he’s never bothered to expand his possibilities as a lead actor which is why his career is failing.
Cheers!
~Movie Junkie
I feel like Farrell doesn’t try for the same reasons The Wayans Brothers keep making “comedies”: people will pay to see it. Farrell has tried before (the Woody Allen movie I can’t exactly remember at this present moment), but the goofy mode has worked for him for so long, it’s like he feels he needs to keep doing it. With the failure of Land of the Lost though, I’m hoping he goes into different genres. He has the Jim Carrey potential.
I also can only stomach Russell Brand in small doses. Giving him his own movie is just as nonsensical as giving Tracy Morgan his own movie.
I didn’t see the green band trailer. I saw the red band this morning. I didn’t laugh once at it. That is a tell-tell sign that the movie is gonna suck.
Definitely seems promising I feel for a summer comedy. I’ll definitely check it out in June.