15, 108 mins
Our national tarnished treasure Russell Brand — the comedian who once exposed himself in My Booky Wook — is now hitting the summer multiplexes with his Movie Wovie, another cocktail of naked ambition on drugs.
The film is officially and puzzlingly titled Get Him to the Greek, which refers not to a moussaka restaurant but the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, where Brand, as the British rock star Aldous Snow, is due to perform. Aldous’s record company has decided to revive his clapped-out career with a tenth-anniversary show. It is the job of the long-suffering, pudgy, straight man Aaron (Jonah Hill) to get Aldous from London to LA alive — even if egregiously stoned.
If there’s one thing Brand can do,