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I Was Gonna Watch, but Then, Um, I Just Carried on Living My Life

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (23)

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There’s a reason certain actors are good at playing the funny slash weird supporting character —it’s because they’re fantastic in small doses. See, for instance, Jack Black in High Fidelity, Will Ferrell in Old School or Zach Galifianakis in The Hangover. In Ferrell and Black’s case, we now know what happens when you make them leading men, and the results are not typically pretty. The same may soon be said of Galifianakis, whose got half a dozen movies or so in development where he is asked to carry most or all of the movie. There’s also Tracy Morgan, who (I think) is fantastic as a supporting character on “30 Rock,” but that’s only because his crazy is fun in small doses.

Likewise, Russell Brand was pretty amusing in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and he had just the exact right amount of screen time, leaving us wanting maybe just a little more. Well, Hollywood is like the Cheesecake Factory — a little more is a 6,000 calorie desert that leaves us in a self-loathing food coma.

Russell Brand’s self-loathing food coma? I present to you the trailer for Get Him to the Greek, where Brand’s reprises his Aldous Huxley character from Forgetting Sarah Marshall, while Jonah Hill — who may or may not be the same character from Sarah Marshall — is tasked with getting the excessive rock star from point A to point B.

And the trailer is just about all I need to satisfy my desire for more of the character in Sarah Marshall. Anything more than this two minutes, and I think I’m going to stick my finger down my throat.

(Click on the poster to see the trailer over on Apple.com)

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Comments

Film is like television set on honeymoon...

Posted by: Jay at February 11, 2010 9:16 PM

Wow, Russell Brand AND Jonah Hill? Why, that's two actors I very much can get enough of! Pass....

Posted by: meaux at February 11, 2010 9:18 PM

The look on Jonah Hill's face -- he's thinking, "I still have a career?"

Not for long, dude. Not for long.

Posted by: superasente at February 11, 2010 9:26 PM

wait wait wait...

Is Russell Brand supposed to be fucking Jonah Hill in the ass in this poster?

Posted by: superasente at February 11, 2010 9:28 PM

My boyfriend will force me to see this. I may as well get comfortable with it right now.

meaux, you live pretty close to us. If I drop you guys off at the theatre and give you popcorn money will you go to this movie with my boyfriend? Be a pal.

Posted by: becks at February 11, 2010 9:29 PM

I think you mean Aldous Snow, yeah?

I realize it's a movie and all, but any drug mule worth his salt will tell you you don't stick the balloon up your bum in the middle of the airport security checkpoint. Just sayin'.

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at February 11, 2010 9:31 PM

No no no no no

Posted by: Alli at February 11, 2010 9:48 PM

Becks, how about we send our fellas to go see this together, then you and I can go watch something decent.

Posted by: meaux at February 11, 2010 9:53 PM

Russell Brand is about as funny as an anal boil

Posted by: UncleJR at February 11, 2010 9:58 PM

*grabs nearby fork and shoves it up his ass...


Okay NOW I'm ready to watch this. I doubt it can be as painful as what I just did. I'll bring a ladle and a pair of salad tongs in cases it is.

"Get Him to the Greek"; better than jamming cutlery up your bunghole."

Posted by: bleujayone at February 11, 2010 10:43 PM

Yeah Aldiss Snow makes a little more sense than Aldous Huxley. But now I kind of want to see Jonah Hill pestering a prominent British author.

"Get that elderly writer from London to L.A. in 72 hours! He might want a nap on the way! Or a cup of tea! Excitement and hijinks ensue!"

Posted by: Anne (in Reno) at February 11, 2010 11:56 PM

Anne, I would much rather watch your version. But without Jonah Hill. Why do they keep putting him in films?!

Posted by: Carrie at February 12, 2010 4:54 AM

You've got a deal meaux.

Posted by: becks at February 12, 2010 7:10 AM

It's got Martin from Green Wing in it (or at least the trailer has)! So it can't be ALL bad....

Posted by: Dora at February 12, 2010 8:12 AM

He's crazy and I need to be serious. Oh no! He's made me crazy, too! But now the movie is ending, so we're both serious. Sigh.

I honestly laughed during the trailer, but there is no way I could subject myself to that same joke for the length of a whole movie.

Posted by: NY not NYC at February 12, 2010 8:31 AM

It looks fun to me. If the reviews are good I'll see it.

Posted by: Kerim Can at February 12, 2010 8:52 AM

Does anyone else find ti strange that apple has Jonah Hills character's name as Aaron Green and IMDB has it is Aaron Greenburg? Conspiracy... probably not.

Posted by: thedarkisz at February 12, 2010 11:23 AM

Is that Sean Combs? Wait, I mean Diddy. No, I think it's P. Diddy - that's it P. Diddy. Is that P. Diddy?!

If there was one thing to make this movie look worse - it's throwing in a man who cannot even keep his own name straight. I feel sorry for whoever draws the short straw and has to review this.

Posted by: Danna at February 12, 2010 11:55 AM

If you were having a contest for the biggest fuckknuckles on the planet, up for consideration would have to be.....Russell Brand, Jonah Hill and Sean Combs. The only way they could shove more douche into this is to have cameos by Spencer Pratt, Joe Francis, Kanye West and the cast of Jersey Shore.

This trailer has a viscous sheen to it, and it's not just the flop sweat from the heavy breathing Hill. This film was conceived out of pure hatred and the Devil's smegma. It will probably be as fun as serious food poisoning, when you have to throw up and shit at the same time.

Speaking of the Devil, the casting agent for this one must be Satan himself. And to think Rose Byrne and Elisabeth Moss are in it? I know there aren't many parts for women out there, but is this the best you could do? But I don't blame you, make that cash grab, you can always go back to Mad Men and films like Adam.

Three crappy films in a row for the Apatow group, (this, Year One and Smart People). Time to get back to basics and call Carell and Rudd. And never....NEVER put Jonah Hill's face on a poster again. There are little kids that have to look at that. I heard they actually had to shrink his head to put it on the poster.

Posted by: Rubble44 at February 12, 2010 10:33 PM

I like to think of myself as a fairly discerning and tasteful individual and after reading the write-up on this trailer fully expected to find it utterly repulsive (Similar to my experience with the "She's out of my league" or whatever that movie's called trailer introduction). Then I actually watched it and, well, I chuckled several times... maybe even actually laughed once or twice? I dunno guys, methinks perhaps the enormous amount of hatred spewing forth in and related to this post is a bit premature, I for one think this has some humorous potential.

Posted by: Sean at February 13, 2010 12:16 AM

* Aldous Snow

The difference between desert and dessert is that you can always have seconds with dessert. Two s's.

Posted by: duckandcover at February 13, 2010 3:50 PM

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Since when did everyone hate Jonah Hill? I freakin' love Jonah Hill.

Now Russel Brand on the other hand...I thought I liked him. And then the MTV Awards came and he did a thoroughly good job of being the worst host of any awards show ever. Then MTV inexplicably brought him back so that he could best his worst hosting performance, which he did with flying colors.

That being said...this movie looks like a big ol' cup of "meh".

P.S. - Will Ferrel did an amazing job of being the leading man in Anchor Man as well as Elf. And School of Rock was pretty good too.

Posted by: Littlejon2001 at February 13, 2010 10:23 PM

Ugh. As soon as i saw P. Diddy or whatever his actual current name is, i knew this is no movie for me. But even without him this looks bland and boring.

Posted by: Arthur Dent at February 14, 2010 10:32 PM