GET HIM TO THE GREEK **½

Nicholas Stoller  directed this Comedy Watch Preview Cast: Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Rose Byrne, Sean Combs, Elisabeth Moss. Rated R for strong sexual content and drug use throughout, and pervasive language. Running time is one hour and forty-nine minutes.

A record company intern (Jonah Hill) has two days to drag an uncooperative rock legend (Russell Brand) to Hollywood for a comeback concert. His boss (Sean Combs) makes it clear he's to do whatever it takes to accomplish the task, illegal or not. Both men have complicated love lives (Hill with Moss and Brand with Byrne).

I suspect you have to be fully appreciative of the "sex, drugs and rock-n-roll" culture to derive maximum enjoyment from this film. It does have its funny moments and the ending is actually sweet, but there's a lot in the middle that got pretty tiresome for me. Believe the R rating and if you're easily offended by language or nudity, don't even consider it. The under 30 crowd will enjoy this much more than those over that age although I watched this with a younger crowd who didn't laugh as much as I thought they might. Production values and acting are good although I was surprised by Byrne's character since I'm so used to seeing her in Damages in which she plays a completely different type of character. Whether or not you'll enjoy this is all about the age of your attitude. Theatres/Times.