{"id":635565,"date":"2025-12-16T07:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/635565\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T07:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:12:40","slug":"no-movie-has-aged-as-badly-as-this-raunchy-blockbuster-comedy-with-a-trio-of-canceled-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/635565\/","title":{"rendered":"No Movie Has Aged As Badly As This Raunchy Blockbuster Comedy With A Trio Of Canceled Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Comedy has fallen out of favor with Hollywood studios, with a pair of rom-coms, Jennifer Laurence\u2019s No Hard Feelings and Anyone But You, with Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney, as the only major releases of the last two years until the arrival of The Naked Gun this summer. Yet it was only a little over a decade ago that Judd Apatow was ruling cinema with his stable of films, including Get Him To The Greek, the Forgetting Sarah Marshall spinoff that has aged so poorly in the last decade, it might as well be the victim of a mummy\u2019s curse.<\/p>\n

Get Him To The Greek is a delightfully raunchy romp with an aging rock star, rocked by one scandal after another, who\u2019s going to put together a huge comeback concert for his record label. Aldous Snow, the rock star, is played by Russell Brand, the record executive tasked to get him to the concert, Aaron Green, is played by Jonah Hill, and his boss is Sergio, played by Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs. <\/p>\n

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Each and every one of them has been embroiled in scandal in the last few years, and ironically, each of their characters mirrored what would eventually take them down in the eyes of the public.<\/p>\n

Jonah Hill\u2019s Aaron Green is a decent guy; he could even be described as a nice guy who\u2019s trying to reconcile with his long-time girlfriend, Daphne (Elisabeth Moss). The problem here is that in 2023, Hill\u2019s ex-girlfriend Sarah Brady went public with messages that Hill had sent her, which she claimed were examples of emotional abuse and narcissistic behavior. While they were intended to be private, the messages didn\u2019t make Hill look good, and he\u2019s been vilified on social media ever since. <\/p>\n

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Now, Hill\u2019s controversy pales in comparison to his\u00a0Get Him To The Greek\u00a0co-stars because, at least in his case, the law never had to get involved. <\/p>\n

Russell Brand is Aldous Snow. Years before taking on the role of the rocker for Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him To The Greek, Brand was a wild UK-based comic known to party hard. In 2023, it all came to a head, with women on both sides of the Atlantic accusing the star of numerous crimes ranging from assault to stalking. <\/p>\n

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The star has denied everything and is planning to fight them in court, but once the dam broke, there was an outpouring of women with stories to tell but as usual, it\u2019s hard to tell what\u2019s true and what\u2019s false. Brand\u2019s portrayal of Aldous Snow in Get Him To The Greek is surprisingly heartfelt despite the character\u2019s hedonistic tendencies, and it\u2019s a shame that now his performance, perhaps the best of his career, has been overshadowed by his real-world issues. <\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s Diddy<\/a>, who plays Sergio and, at one point in\u00a0Get Him To The Greek, forces Aaron to hook up with a groupie, Destiny, despite being deeply in love with his long-time girlfriend. The United States Department of Justice arrested Diddy for doing exactly that sort of thing for decades in reality. In fact, in retrospect, it seems like Diddy was never really playing a character and, like the other two, was just an exaggerated version of himself.<\/p>\n

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Now, I\u2019ll admit that I enjoyed Get Him To The Greek when it came out, as at the time, I was consuming every Apatow movie that came out of his pipeline, and while there are still some redeeming qualities about it, the shine has worn off, and I doubt I\u2019ll watch it again.<\/p>\n

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Taken simply as a movie, it\u2019s raunchy with a heart to it, and Hill and Brand play off each other remarkably well. Still, it\u2019s also the exact type of comedy studios are terrified to make today because it might be offensive. And for good reason, there are a few scenes that would not go over with modern audiences, and that\u2019s without taking into account the off-screen controversies of the last two years.<\/p>\n

If you want to check it out for yourself, Get Him To The Greek is available through Video on Demand through Amazon Prime Video<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>, and AppleTV<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jonathan Klotz | Published 25 seconds ago Comedy has fallen out of favor with Hollywood studios, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[1641,2197,16337,9087,77,3785,156155,196117,42737,17980,16280,3943,7670,1632,1674,46290,4097,382,16,15,1737],"class_list":{"0":"post-635565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-amazon-prime","9":"tag-comedy","10":"tag-diddy","11":"tag-elisabeth-moss","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-entertainment-news","14":"tag-fake-slideshow","15":"tag-get-him-to-the-greek","16":"tag-jonah-hill","17":"tag-judd-apatow","18":"tag-movie-news","19":"tag-movies","20":"tag-opinions","21":"tag-russell-brand","22":"tag-sean-diddy-combs","23":"tag-sean-combs","24":"tag-streaming","25":"tag-tv","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom","28":"tag-youtube"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115728010410118453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}