Russell Brand as an off-the-bandwagon rocker trying to make it to a gig. Sounds shit doesn’t it? On paper Get Him To The Greek looks like it was written on a coffee break at National Lampoon. In reality, it’s a right melon squeezer. Mainly because it’s quite good.
Despite Russell Brand freaking out the Jonas Brothers and lambasting the health system, the soon to be Mr. Katy Perry seems to have wormed his way comfortably into the US consciousness, and while his appearance as cartoon-rocker Aldous Snow in Forgetting Sarah Marshall was fun, upgrading him to central character status was always a definite risk. Fortunately it’s one Brand files neatly alongside ‘massive cocaine intake’ and takes in his stride.
