Jeffrey

I watched Get Him to the Greek (2010) yesterday and it was a mixed bag (a "Jeffrey," if you will) - there were things I liked about it and things I hated about it, but what most bothered me was Mad Men's Peggy and Jonah Hill.

How and why are these two a couple? Peggy is a super busy and sleep deprived medical student who likes Gossip Girl and bright colors. Jonah Hill (who just makes me think of Allen Gregory, the character he voices on the sometimes amusing cartoon with the same name) is a sleep deprived (?) music fanatic who has some sort of job at a record label. One night, he asks Peggy to go see the Pixies and the Mars Volta (Pixies should have had lead billing) and Peggy asks to be reminded as to who Mars Volta is (really, Peggy? You are aware of the Pixies and not Mars Volta?) and decides she'd rather stay home and watch Gossip Girl than go see the Pixies. The Pixies. OMG. The flipping iconic Pixies lose to a show which has gotten weaker and weaker since it's first few seasons (like 90210, when they leave high school, the show goes downhill fast). Ugh. I digress.

How are these two even together? I hate, in films, when the main character loves loves loves music and is with a woman who has no clue about music (who is also usually a harpy). Really? How'd they get together? Some other common interest(s) the viewer isn't let in on?

I think it comes down to the fact that Jonah Hill's character is unlikable and inconsistent (I don't think a different actor would have done much with the role either). Peggy's going to be a doctor. She needs to move to Seattle without him. Find some other milk toast guy who likes Gossip Girl as much as she does, who also doesn't know who the Mars Volta is.

I also hate how, in movies, if both parties in a couple cheat (aka the man cheats so we have the woman cheat too) it somehow makes it okay/acceptable to both parties (cancels each other out?).

But, in the end, Peggy and Jonah work it all out. He lives the fake music industry to...oh, to stay in the music industry to become a producer. Uh, okay. What I'd love to see is a future sequel - with Russell Brand's character's son (who turns out to not be his son) grown up and working at Jonah Hill's totally real and not all flashy fake record label and given the task to get his father (not-father) to a reunion show...Get Him BACK to the Greek. Ha. No.