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Get Him to the Greek trailer, you guys:
No offense to Mr. Hill or Mr. Apatow or Mr. Combs (none taken!) but I am just not a big fan of Impossible Task comedies (sorry to get so technical on you this early in the morning). An Impossible Task comedy, of course, is a comedy in which the characters find themselves routinely thwarted in their attempts to achieve a particular goal, the resolution of which would provide the dramatic and emotional resolution to the entire narrative. It is the driving momentum behind movies like Steve Martin and John Candy’s Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Billy Murray’s Quick Change, and the Breckin Meyer vehicle, Road Trip. As far as I am concerned, this genre of comedy is the Saw of comedies. It is just torture for an hour and a half, and then at the end you’re like, what was the point? Because I do not want to blow your mind or ruin anything for you, but HIM GETS TO THE GREEK. Maybe my dislike of these types of movies stems from the same place that causes my frequent anxiety dreams about not being able to get to the airport on time, and then getting there but being in the wrong terminal. But this is a blog, not a THERAPIST’S COUCH, isn’t that right Dr. Melfi?
Anyway, I will almost certainly end up seeing this, but I might wait until they get him to the DVD. Get it? You get it.
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WE’VE GOT TO GO BACK TO THE GREEK!
I’m just so tired of getting him to the greek
i just can’t wait til we get him to the greek.
Why would we go back to the Greek? Where we’re going we don’t need Greek.
This Greek is making me thirsty! (Am I doing it right?)
Forget it, Jake. It’s Greektown.
Hey! I just noticed that one of the characters seems uptight, but the other seems wacky! However will they work together? It boggles the mind. Hollywood, you’re wacky.
Hold on, hold on. Are you saying, Gabe, that you don’t like Planes, Trains, and Automobiles nor Quick Change?
i am having the exact same crisis here
I guess this means me and Gabe can never spend Thanksgiving together. Margaritas and P,T, & A is how Thanksgivings at my house go.
Gabe similarly barred from my family Thanksgivings as well =( I am glad to know that I’m not the only monster who will not have Gabe-attended holidays (because every single holiday we alternate between Planes, Trains, and Automobiles and Quick Change).
“Gabe, what kind of clown did you eat for breakfast?”
“The crying on the inside kind, I guess.”
Is this movie also called I Want To Work For Diddy 3: The Movie? Because I swear I’ve seen this before.
Spoiler Alert: This Happens
They’re gonna need a bigger Greek.
P-Diddy, Bathroom Sex, Gratuitous Drinking, Drugs-Up-The-Butt Jokes, Visible Barf, that English guy that isn’t funny at all… What’s DOESN’T this movie have!?!
Seth Rogen?
I smell a cameo somewhere in there.
Nowhere to be found on the imdb page for the movie, I’m shocked!
I don’t think I agree with you about Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Gabe. On the surface it’s an impossible-task comedy, but I think it’s a better movie than the ones you’ve mentioned in the same breath. Beneath its surface is a movie about two human beings struggling to connect – Martin’s character desperate to push away anyone and everything, Candy’s so desperate for connection he can’t see how he can push away people with his openness, and the development of their relationship as human beings and friends. It may not be a perfect flick, but it’s definitely heads and tails about Road Trip.
“Head and shoulders,” I would think.
In a movie with Jonah Hill, Aziz Ansari, Nick Kroll, Sean P. Diddy Combs, I don’t particularly care about the ending of the movie, I just care about the laffs, and there will be lots of them! (I hope!)
I always thought of “Impossible Task” comedies as the ones where David Spade is trying to be funny.
A+++++ would buy ZINGS from again.
“Be aware of pleasure that keeps you too busy to be wise.” Dr. Johnson on Impossible Task comedies
Videogum got a shout-out in a Pitchfork article about Die Antwoord this morning (http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7766-die-antwoord/). Videogum is pretty much the number one source for all things Die Antwoord, that’s obvious, but what’s up with P4k being ridiculously tardy to the zef-party? Oh, and this movie looks predictable, in case no one’s said that yet.
I totally forgot about Quick Change.
Baby, up ur butt with a coconut. I think he was prepared to do it! But I saw no coconut
Down vote me all you want, but Harold and Kumar go to White Castle is probably exactly the kind of “Impossible Task” movie Gabe is referring to, but I will watch it whenever it is on and laugh at all the jokes, especially the Katie Holmes bit.
Did anyone consider just bringing the Greek to Him?
Down vote me all you want, but Harold and Kumar go to White Castle is probably exactly the kind of “Impossible Task” movie Gabe is referring to, but I will watch it whenever it is on and laugh at all the jokes, especially the Katie Holmes bit. (Let us never be reminded of the dreadful Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay… its a doozy)
How did this happen!!!
How long before the inevitable porn-parody “Get Her in the Greek”, starring Russell Branded and Joanna Hills?
Ick… I’m so sorry guys.
Get Her in the Greek? I don’t know if you understand how sex works.
In my head it was that way, but upon execution, I couldn’t find a way to make the gay-porno-parody-actor names, etc.
I felt the preemptive apology explained it all.
to be fair to chameleon_street, i’m sure women-topping-men porn exists. so that scenario would work.
sorry. i majored in gender studies and it’s really hard to turn off that thought process.
i up-voted you, pinko! solidarity, sister!
[she is actually my sister.]
It occurs to me that you might not know that prostitutes who advertise on craigslist describe anal sex as “speaking greek.” As in, “I also speak GRE3K.” So his porn title actually works perfectly well…
“Don’t you see? Him is already at The Greek. The Greek is in him heart.”
Is “Greek” code word for “Arby’s?” Cuz, damn. It looks like someone drew a Jonah HIll, then colored all outside the lines.
I enjoyed Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but was Russell Brand’s character such a breakout hit that he required his whole movie? This movie just seems pretty lazy.
Not too sure many people were begging Jonah Hill to reprise his role as the creepy waiter, either. Or is this another Jonah Hill and we are supposed to forget that he’s already been in an Aldous Snow-ish movie; like when a guy (Rob Estes) shows up on New 90210 even though he was on Old Melrose Place which was a spinoff of Old 90210?
Yeah, this is supposedly a different character who is just played by Jonah Hill. If anything was spun off from Forgetting Sarah Marshall, it should have been the Dracula musical.
Or possibly Animal Instincts…
I thought Aldus Snow was supposed to be a recovering alcoholic. He sure seems to be holding a lot of incriminating-looking beverages in this trailer!
(That is really all I could think about when I watched it.)
I think I’ll wait for the video game.
God damnit.
Let’s try this again:
Teddy Told Me That In (Get Him To The) Greek, Nostalgia Literally Means The Pain From An Old Wound (that got there somehow when one character was so wasted the night before and then they try to figure out what happened, comedy ensues)
“Maybe my dislike of these types of movies stems from the same place that causes my frequent anxiety dreams about not being able to get to the airport on time, and then getting there but being in the wrong terminal.”
Gabe, I literally just got home from the airport after that exact wrong terminal mishap occured. I’m on standby for the flight to Laguardia at 2:15. VGIML
I almost missed my flight home from Mexico City because I got dropped off late at the wrong terminal and I don’t speak Spanish and then a bunch of wacky fucking hijinx ensued. It was A NIGHTMARE.
i had the titular line in get him to the greek
“i just can’t wait to get him to the greek”
it got cut.
It’s not about the destination, Gabe. It’s about the journey. Don’t you know you’re beautiful?
But I think you buried the lede in this story which is that DJ OL’ YOUNGIN’ IS SITTING BEHIND AZIZ IN THAT FIRST SCENE!!!
OH MAN. hasn’t aziz said he is working on developing 3 randy spinoff movies?? or was it just one randy spinoff and 2 other movies?? is aziz playing raaaaaaaandy in this movie??? imdb doesn’t list his character’s name. HOW MANY MOVIES IS THIS A SPINOFF OF!
i’m also for the record bothered by russell brand playing aldous snow but jonah hill playing not the waiter with a constant boner for aldous snow.
Ok Jonah Hill is clearly Jewish, this is a fact we all know. I did some EXTENSIVE research and saw that his full name is Jonah Hill Feldstein. Maybe I don’t get things, but why exactly was it easier to act with a gentile name? It’s 2010 Feldstein.
Once they got him to the Greek all they could do was stare at his hog in the locker room.
I’m coming. I’M COMING. To the Greek.
I will see this movie because Forgetting Sarah Marshall was bangin’.
When I saw the words “Mr. Hill” and “Impossible Task”, I seriously thought Gabe was talking about Walter Hill and The Warriors (who faced the impossible task of making it all the way back to Coney Island without getting killed). God, I love The Warriors.
My question is, what does this mean for Gabe’s feelings on The Blues Brothers? I’m a little concerned.
As long as you like “How i met your mother” where in the first 5 minutes of the latest episodes these jokes happened: “Your beer looks flat. It’s not beer, it’s whiskey!” (ORLY??? SWITCHAROONY!!! SHE’S HAVING A LOT OF WHISKEY, COS SHE FEELS DOWN, ALCOHOLIC DEPRESSION LOLOL) and Barney answers the phone, talks about boobs to find out it’s his MOTHER!! (SWITCH-OHSNAP-A-ROONY!! YOU DON’T TALK LIKE THAT TO YOUR MOMMA!! AWWWWWKWWWAAAARDDD LOLOLES)
See you at the Greek, Richter
The Hangover had a pretty weak premise too, Doug got to the wedding, but it was still hilarious.