http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1226229/ Written & directed by: Nicholas Stoller
Runtime: 109min
Cast: Jonah Hill, Russel Brand, Rose Byrne, Sean Combs
Genre: Comedy
Tagline: Aaron Green has 72 hours to get a Rock Star from London to L.A. Pray for him.
Huge appeal at your funny bone, face and belly muscles too. This juicy comedy, which introduces us into the world of ‘sex, drugs and rock and roll’, is basically about a record company intern escorting a chaotic rock star to the destination of his next concert.
The plot is really not of much importance. The laughs are. Supposedly, it’s a spin-off from ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’, fact of which there are a few subtle hints. The lucky ones may have seen Jonah Hill back in 2007 movie entitled ‘Superbad’, which surprise-surprise…was similar in its hilarity. This movie features as main characters 1. an eccentric rock star – a.k.a. Russell Brand who is irreplaceable in this role and 2. a sort of low-key, sympathetic little record company intern fittingly incarnated by Jonah Hill. And I guess I should definitely mention another ‘mind-fuckingly’ funny character too – an African-American with a badass attitude, dirty language and no line unaccompanied by laughter. P.Diddy is funny! Who knew? Some other thing: Russell Brand and co. have superb British accent, so under no, I repeat no circumstances watch any synchronized version of this movie; the waste would be too much. I don’t usually like movies with too much singing going on in them, but this movie displayed of hilarious song lyrics, so it didn’t bother me. A few times I got the feeling of ‘inside jokes’, due to some outside references, which you should best advised know, or you will probably miss a few jokes (ex. Air Jordans, Gossip girl, Kubrick, Quidditch). Anyhow, it’s not too bad if you do miss a few, there are countless others to compensate them.
Comic situations, comic lines, good performance and actors in fitting roles, so yeah, I have kind of been waiting for another comedy like this for quite some time. If you want a movie which requires little thinking but all the more laughing, and if a few gross-out scenes and vulgar language doesn’t revolt you, see this!
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