Get Him to the Greek: Doubletake

I was probably the only person in the world who didn't like Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. When I saw Mike Myers's opus I was frustrated because the movie didn't seem to know what it was. Was it a James Bond Parody, a skewing of the '60s, or was it just a wacky romp? I needed the film to make the decision.

I felt very much the same way with Get Him to the Greek. The trailers led me to believe, and get excited for, a crazy, over the top, manic ride of the insane Aldous Snow tormenting poor music intern Aaron Green, with one scene of P. Diddy chasing them down a hallway. What the movie was, unfortunately, was a the tale of a sad rock and roll star who, yes drinks and at least talks about doing heroin, but is also extremely verbose and reasonable. We also are offered up a lot of characters who say "this is crazy" and then just go along with whatever. And some extremely unbelievable rock songs which are both tepid and too wacky to be believed. (The hit song is the "The Clap"? Really?)

In the end the one scene that satisfied was Sean Combs chasing Aldous and Aaron down a hallway, because it was actually funny, wacky, and interesting. The rest of the movie, which leads to Aldous learning a lesson about himself and his sobriety, can just go die.

Lessons don't take the place of comedy, Judd Apataw -where ever you are.

I give this movie one Bedtime Bear.