Neighbors

Mac and Kelly are trying to have sex in their dining room. Mac keeps saying how hot it is that they are having sex on a chair. And then he notices that their little baby Stella is staring at them. Kelly points out it's nothing, she is simply seeing shapes. To which Mac replies 'yeah, the shapes that are fucking!'

Get Him to the Greek

(109 min, 2010)
Director: Nicholas Stoller
Writers: Nicholas Stoller, Jason Segel (characters)
Stars: Jonah Hill, Russell Brand and Elisabeth Moss
 

Anarchy in LA.

A record company intern (Jonah Hill) is hired to accompany out-of-control British rock star Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) to a concert at L.A.'s Greek Theater.

If you want to laugh uncontrollably for a good amount of time, just go to youtube and type either “Jonah Hill + Letterman” or “Russell Brand + Letterman”. Those two are wonderful comedians, even when you watch talk show with them you can't stop laughing. So as soon as I heard they are doing movie together I couldn't wait to see it.

I know there are many people who are against this new trend in comedy – that trend includes tons of drugs, swearing and vomiting but also promotes true values like love, friendship, loyalty. I have absolutely no problem with crude humor as long as it is funny – one of my favorite comedies of all time is “Superbad” including Hill, too many f words to count, period blood and drunk chicks. And it's OK, because it's actually close to real life – anyone who was under aged and wanted to buy booze will understand – and it's amazingly funny. “Get him to the Greek” fits the trend perfectly – it has a happy ending and very bumpy, f-word decorated road to it.

The movie is a spin-off of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”, it features the same character Aldous Snow, British rock star. Brand is playing himself here – always with shockingly open shirt, impressive vocabulary and colorful terms and metaphors, completely out of control behavior and a history of drug abuse. Even if he's not even required to put much effort, apart from few scenes near the end, he's fantastic in the movie – it makes you kinda sad we don't really have such rock stars anymore. Hill plays charming loser, as always, and as always – he's hilarious. The moment when he tried to pull off British accent was so funny it brought me to tears. The power of those movies, as with “Knocked up”, “The Hangover” and others is the fact that you genuinely like the characters, you care about them, because even if they are not perfect, glamorous and more often then not so ordinary, they are just insanely likeable.