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06/09/2010 by Lauren Leave a Comment

2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall introduced the scene-stealing character of Aldous Snow, who quite deservingly got a spin-off of his own with Get Him to the Greek. Though it was not exactly what I hoped for, it had enough hilarious bits to tip the scales in a favorable direction.

Following the events of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Aldous Snow’s life has become something that would be the perfect source material for an episode of the E! True Hollywood Story series. His sexual prowess is as strong as ever, but his sobriety has gone out the window, along with his career as a relevant rock star. Luckily enough for him there are people like Aaron Green out there who remember the better times of Snow’s musicality. During a staff meeting at the record company he works for, Aaron throws out the idea that they should have a 10-year anniversary concert at L.A.’s Greek Theater in a few days. Now he just needs to get Aldous there. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Movie Review Tagged With: Get Him to the Greek, Jonah Hill, Rose Byrne, Russell Brand, Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs

Review: Get Him to the Greek

06/04/2010 by Zac Leave a Comment

The Forgetting Sarah Marshall spin off, Get Him to the Greek, is a scatter shot of randomness and hilarious that is a tad disjointed but more than makes up for any awkwardness with some great humor from its three leads.

The film picks up sometime after Sarah Marshall’s timeline, Aldous Snow is no longer sober and is a menace/laughing stock of the music scene after his band Infant Sorrow’s offensive album knocked them out of the seemingly deserved spot light. Enter Aaron, a low on the totem poll member of Aldous’ record company who suggests to his irate and frustrated boss Sergio that they should do an anniversary show of Infant Sorrow’s legendary performance at the Greek Theater in an attempt to make the company some money again. Aldous agrees and Aaron, after a seeming break up with his girlfriend, is dispatched to England to make sure Aldous shows up on time and sober to LA for the concert.

Suggestion Box (Feb. 8 – 14)

02/16/2010 by Lauren Leave a Comment

Heavy Rain Demo – if you have a PS3 then you really should check out this demo. In it you get to play as two of the characters from the game, a private detective and an FBI agent, as they search for info about the origami killer. The first section is mainly just to mess around with the controls, including the awkward walking mechanics and the fast paced button pressing interactions (which will definitely prove to be an interesting part of the game considering how well you know the placement of the buttons on the controller when stressed will greatly change the way events unfold), while the second shows off the FBI agents awesome crime fighting glasses. I just hope the slower movement of the gameplay is strong enough to keep my easily distracted personality in check.

Get Him to the Greek Trailer – So remember the awkward interactions between Jonah Hill and Russell Brand in Forgetting Sarah Marshall? Now they have a whole movie together! Yay! Check it out here. [Read more...]