Reviewed by: Edward Douglas
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Cast:

• Russell Brand as Aldous Snow
• Jonah Hill as Aaron Green
• Elisabeth Moss as Daphne Binks
• Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs as Sergio Roma
• Rose Byrne as Jackie Q
• Colm Meaney as Jonathan Snow
• Aziz Ansari as Matty
• Lino Facioli as Naples
• Kali Hawk as Kali
• Nick Kroll as Kevin
• Ivan Shaw as Pinnacle Executives
• Ellie Kemper as Pinnacle Executives
• Derek Resallat as Dr. Coltrane
• Dinah Stabb as Lena Snow
• Kristen Bell as Sarah Marshall
• Roger Joseph Manning Jr. as Infant Sorrow Keyboardist / Guitarist
• Sean Hurley as Infant Sorrow Bassist
• Victor Indrizzo as Infant Sorrow Drummer
• Elena Beuca as Monique
• Directed by Nicholas Stoller

Story:

The music industry is on the skids and Junior A&R executive Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) has an idea that can help the record label survive by getting his favorite musician, rocker Aldous Snow (Russell Brand), to play a comeback show at L.A.’s Greek Theater. His boss Sergio (Sean Combs) agrees and sends Aaron to England to retrieve Snow with three days to get him to Los Angeles for the important gig.

Analysis:

When it was announced Jonah Hill and Russell Brand would be reuniting after their chronic scene-stealing in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” for a spin-off sequel (of sorts), that movie’s fans probably wondered what more could be done with them. That film’s director Nick Stoller takes point this time around, writing and directing what ends up being a riotous road comedy that offers almost as much heart as it does humor.

When the film opens, an undefined time after “Sarah Marshall,” Aldous Snow is about to make the biggest career gaff of his life, releasing an offensive and distasteful song called “African Child,” which sends his career into a tailspin. When his long-time girlfriend Jackie Q (Rose Byrne) leaves him, Aldous’ confidence follows suit, and he falls off the wagon into his previous drinking and drugging ways. This is where he’s at when A&R guy Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) shows up to retrieve the difficult rocker for his comeback show, leading to a three-day promotional tour from hell as Green finds himself being dragged into the worst situations from scoring heroin in Vegas to being assaulted by the skanky groupies that follow Snow everywhere. When he’s not trying to please the boss, Green is at home trying to please his career-minded girlfriend Daphne (Elisabeth Moss), often to his own detriment. She wants to take a job in Seattle, which would force him to leave the job of his dreams, but Aaron goes against her wishes and takes the assignment, enabling Snow to put his new chaperone through all sorts of unspeakable hell.

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