Family-Faith Film Review: Get Him to the Greek

Family-Faith Film Review: Get Him to the Greek
By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting

Get Him to the Greek—Raucous, frequently coarse comedy in which a timid young record company executive (Jonah Hill) is tasked by his hard-bitten boss (Sean Combs) with escorting a hedonistic British rock star (Russell Brand) from London to the titular Los Angeles theater for a comeback concert, a journey that coincides with, and aggravates, a break with his live-in girlfriend (Elisabeth Moss). Like his 2008 debut, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” in which Brand’s character first appeared, writer-director Nicholas Stoller’s tale of an unlikely friendship features a few touching moments and some positive underlying values, but these elements are ultimately eclipsed by obscenity-laden dialogue and debauched, sometimes perverse behavior. Brief graphic nonmarital sexual activity, scenes of aberrant sexuality, cohabitation, drug use, some gruesome images, upper female and rear nudity, much sexual humor, a couple of uses of profanity, pervasive rough and crude language. O — morally offensive. (R) 2010
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