When plump Aaron Green (Jonah Hill), working in a struggling record company, comes up with the idea for his boss, Sergio, (Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs) of a ten year reunion concert for Aldous Snow (Russell Brand), a kind of Jim Morrison / Michael Hutchence tribute, things come together except for the fact that Aaron must get Aldous from London to New York and then Los Angeles (home of The Greek auditorium) in 72 hours.

When he arrives, he (and we all) finds Aldous has the maturity of an eight year old and the self discipline of a tearaway undergrad. From there the main threads holding this mess together are jokes centred around the mid-drift, front and back and for both genders. Sex, drugs, rock’n’roll and no shortage of vomit keep us enthralled for the next 90 minutes.

Frat boys may see this as the new Animal House. Oldies may reflect on Spinal Tap, while others still will see nothing much more than another road movie with a Vegas romps in the middle and all the production values of The Room.

But to draw comparisons with classic films like these would be odious. Undergrad males may revel in the coarseness and lack of subtlety (the language used often would make even Andrew Johns blush). Brand holds his part together well and to be sure there were some humorous things said, though most of these for me seemed to sail way over the heads of those around me at the screening who were delighting in the film generally.

This film offers little new and even less left for the imagination.

Kryztoff Rating    3.5K for Frat Boys; 1K for the rest of us