Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
7 |
...under the cover of slapstick, cheap laughs, raunchy humor, gross-out physical comedy and sheer exploitation, Get Him to the Greek also is fundamentally a sound movie. |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
7 |
Extremely raunchy, Get Him to the Greek is also very funny. |
E!
Luke Y. Thompson |
7 |
Moments of utter hilarity occur, but director Nicholas Stoller seems unsure which of the two is his real protagonist, and the incidents of idiocy are more isolated than escalating. |
filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell |
5 |
Whenever scenes grow stagnant (which is often), the unpredictable comedian [Brand] reaches down into that deep reservoir of internal inspiration and somehow, against all odds, finds a laugh. |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
6 |
...Stoller...has plenty of talent. But to beef up the story he should have written another movie, kept the best half of it and interspersed that material with the funniest 50 percent of this one — kinda how The Beatles came up with “A Day in the Life.” |
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager |
5 |
...[the movie] operates like a booze bender -- alternately funny and depressing in the moment, and barely memorable the morning after. |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
5 |
...goes off the rails into strained sermonizing... |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
7 |
Get Him to the Greek is a clever rock-world satire, with some lively take-offs on the TMZ-gossip magazine circus, but it's also too long, and by the time of the inevitable Las Vegas sequence, it starts to grow repetitive. |
New York Times
A. O. Scott |
7 |
...anarchic and occasionally slipshod as it may be, was made with enough care to earn the affection of its fans. |
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey |
5 |
...there are both very funny and surprisingly compelling narrative themes running through the film that would have worked even better if — and get ready, there are a lot of ifs — (a) the " F-bombs" were occasional rather than unrelenting, (b) Mad Men's talented Elisabeth Moss wasn't completely misused, (c) there was far less projectile vomiting, (d) there were fewer "objects" shoved up Hill's bum and (e) the masochistic misogyny had been shelved entirely. |
Village Voice
Robert Wilonsky |
7 |
Get Him to the Greek, is a mess, but an amiable and occasionally uproarious one due mostly to Russell Brand's reprising of his role as Aldous Snow. |
Onion AV Club
Scott Tobias |
7 |
...Brand expands on the rascally charm and soul that made him transcend type in the first film. |
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer |
6 |
...the latest gross-out yuckfest from Team Apatow, no better or worse than most of the others. |
Variety
Brian Lowry |
7 |
As R-rated comedy goes, the [Judd] Apatow stable has become almost a can-you-top-this competition, and at times Greek works a little too hard toward that end, with a tone occasionally bordering on frantic. Still, barring a few lapses, the gags fly by in rapid-fire fashion, and enough of them connect... |
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