Men's trip

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Movie
German title Men's trip
Original title Get Him to the Greek
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 12, 16 (long version)
JMK 14
Rod
Director Nicholas Stoller
script Nicholas Stoller,
Jason Segel
production Judd Apatow ,
David Bushell,
Rodney Rothman
music Lyle Workman
camera Robert D. Yeoman
cut William Kerr,
Michael L. Sale
occupation

Men's Trip (Original title: Get Him to the Greek ) is an American comedy film directed by Nicholas Stoller from 2010 with Russell Brand and Jonah Hill in the lead roles.

action

Aaron Green, an employee at a record label , sees his big chance when he British rock star Aldous Snow to his great comeback in the Greek Theater of Los Angeles to bring. At first glance, this job, which is not very demanding, quickly turns out to be quite tricky, because the headstrong rock star shows a very diva-like behavior and is difficult to bring under control. In addition, Snow is tired of the yes-men around him and the constant abundance and is increasingly looking for the deeper meaning of life, without, however, giving up the usual orgies. This drives his minder, Aaron Green, to increasingly desperate measures.

Aaron meets Aldous in his apartment in London and actually wants to go straight back to the airport to fly to New York. The next day there is a promotion appearance on the Today Show . But Aldous first forces Aaron to go party together. Since Aaron has just supposedly separated from his girlfriend and is accordingly bent, Aldous gives him a little affair. The next morning they both fly to New York and arrive just in time for the show. At the direction of his boss Sergio Roma (Aldous should stay sober) Aaron takes his alcohol and marijuana supplies away and consumes them himself, which is hard on him.

Aldous, in turn, has also forgotten the lyrics of the song African Child , which he is supposed to sing on the promotion appearance. Aaron tries desperately to find out the lyrics of the song and in his hustle and bustle dismantles half the studio. Aldous then had the idea of ​​simply singing a different song. The gig will be a huge success and the upcoming concert will soon be sold out.

Inspired by the success, Aldous decides on his own initiative to make a stopover in Las Vegas to meet his father. There he forces Aaron to get him more drugs, which causes him great difficulties. The reconciliation also fails and ends in a big scuffle, which was initiated by Sergio Roma. It drives Aldous to LA

There, Aaron and Aldous try to win back their ex-girlfriends for the rest of the day. Aldous' ex, the singer Jackie Q, lets himself in for a shepherd's hour , but tells Aldous in the subsequent conversation that their son is not his.

Aldous then turns up at Aaron and torpedoes his plans, which ends in a disaster. Aldous suggests a threesome and Daphne agrees to get revenge on Aaron for the past few days' affairs.

Aldous realizes that he has only been selfish in the past and announces his suicide by jumping off the hotel roof to Aaron. Aaron convinces him that instead he can give something back to his fans by coming to the concert. So Aldous doesn't jump on the street, but into the hotel pool, injuring his arm badly. Nevertheless, he lets Aaron drive him to the Greek Theater and performs to the cheers of the fans.

In the epilogue we learn that Aldous' comeback success had he once again has sworn off drugs and now Aaron produced is. Aaron made it up with his girlfriend Daphne and followed her to Seattle, where she started a job as a doctor.

background

The film grossed approximately $ 91.4 million worldwide.

Trivia

Numerous celebrities have guest appearances in the film. Including:

Furthermore, some actors were mounted in photos of Owen Wilson , Johnny Depp , Derek Jeter .

The film takes motifs from a Richard Benjamin film with Peter O'Toole from 1982 entitled A Daredevil in New York , as well as from How Life plays with Adam Sandler , directed by Judd Apatow (producer of Men's Trip ) from the Year 2009.

criticism

The film received mostly positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes got a 72% positive rating based on 191 reviews.

“[…] Above all, Russell Brand had already made his Aldous Snow a second main character in Never Again Sex with the Ex through his sheer presence, and he plays the rock star here as a consequent egoist who is as relaxed as he is determined about his needs and addictions everything else, but then suddenly in between finds his very soft heart for others; you never know what he will decide in the next moment. "

- Rochus Wolff, critic.de

“[…] Nicholas Stoller has succeeded in combining flat, but largely sparkling gags with shrill satire and even integrating them into a very nice plot. Perhaps it would not have been necessary to include a tiny love story in order to force a clearer structure than the actual plot would allow, but it may not really bother and ultimately you find yourself in the old Judd Apatow comfort in the end: Fine morals, satisfied faces and a finale that was a little too long with a lot of music. "

- Jakob Stählin, schnitt.de

“Although the film can be viewed as a satire on the music business, references to real pop phenomena remain vague. You may recognize a quote from yourself in Sean Combs' appearance, because as in his role as Sergio, the hip-hop mogul runs a record company in real life (among other things), whereby his autocratic treatment of subordinates may be reminiscent of the roles in reality shows, which he filled out on the side on US television. The unambiguous profanity that Aldous' ex-girlfriend and colleague Jackie Q describes in music videos may in turn be modeled on the clumsy flirtatiousness of some songs by Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears. But the vulgar messianism of Aldous, who imagines himself in a wonderfully hair-raising song as the revenant of Christ and savior of Africa, is simply unprecedented. "

- Holger Römers, film service

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for men's trip . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 218 K).
  2. Release certificate for men's trip - long version, video . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, October 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 218 V).
  3. Age rating for men's trip . Youth Media Commission .
  4. Get Him to the Greek (2010) - Box Office Mojo. In: www.boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved July 21, 2016 .
  5. ^ Peter Bradshaw: Film review: Get Him to the Greek. In: the Guardian. June 24, 2010, accessed July 21, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Men's trip at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  7. www.critic.de: Men's trip | Criticism. In: critic.de. Retrieved July 21, 2016 .
  8. Schnitt Verlag, Cologne: Männertrip ¦ Films ¦ Schnitt Online. In: schnitt.de. Retrieved July 21, 2016 .
  9. www.filmdienst.de: Männertrip ¦ Films ¦ filmd-dienst. In: filmdienst.de. Retrieved July 21, 2016 .