Avoiding the Florida-like humidity this weekend, I saw Get Him to the Greek. It was pretty standard fare. Russell Brand, Jonah Hill, and Puff Daddy basically play themselves, though Jonah Hill looks like he added all the weight Seth Rogan lost. Peggy Olson also plays essentially the 2010 version of herself. There were some good laughs, and Puffy got some choice lines as you'd expect. As with all these movies, the plot and humor lost all steam with 30 minutes to go.However, the Tim Wattley award for breakout performance goes to Rose Byrne. She is on the show Damages, which apparently gets good reviews, but she never struck me as anything special. Whether it was the English accent or the lighter hair, Rose brought her A game this weekend.
Overall, it should be a decent addition to the HBO 5 rotation in 2012.
The New Yorker loved the movie. So that means stay away? They normally hate everything.
ReplyDeleteFrom the New Yorker....MacGruber:
ReplyDeleteIt’s been about a decade since the folks at “Saturday Night Live” anointed a sketch with feature-film status; they should have waited longer. The doughy hunk Will Forte stars in this spoof of the “MacGyver” TV series as the shag-cut military man, who is pulled out of retirement to track down an evil assassin (Val Kilmer). He partners with Ryan Phillippe and Kristen Wiig for what should be some entertaining mayhem, but the jokey script is full of clunkers and inexplicable violence (the movie is rated R), and the forced camaraderie of the actors never jells into even one moment of comic inspiration. Directed by Jorma Taccone.