- 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.
—Luke Y. Thompson E!
- 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...
—Brian Lowry Variety
- 7
Extremely raunchy, Get Him to the Greek is also very funny.
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 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.
—Robert Wilonsky Village Voice
- 7
...anarchic and occasionally slipshod as it may be, was made with enough care to earn the affection of its fans.
—A. O. Scott New York Times
- 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.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 7
...Brand expands on the rascally charm and soul that made him transcend type in the first film.
—Scott Tobias Onion AV Club
- 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.
—Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly
- 6
The concept is inspired, and the movie has some very funny moments. But about halfway through this long weekend, the frantic tale grows flimsy.
—Claudia Puig USA Today
- 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.?
—Kyle Smith New York Post
- 6
...the latest gross-out yuckfest from Team Apatow, no better or worse than most of the others.
—Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor
- 5
...goes off the rails into strained sermonizing...
—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
- 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.
—Sean O'Connell filmcritic.com
- 5
...[the movie] operates like a booze bender -- alternately funny and depressing in the moment, and barely memorable the morning after.
—Nick Schager Slant Magazine
- 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.
—Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times
- 4
A reunion with Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nicholas Stoller that pays far fewer comic dividends, the stop-start R-rated excursion never achieves the propulsive traction and outrageous/endearing balance that made The Hangover such a smash this time last year.
—Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter