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After the jump, I’ve got the red-band trailer for Get Him to the Greek, in which Russell Brand plays a rock star.  I know, such range, it’s breathtaking.  Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nicholas Stoller returns to direct, and the trailer actually looks pretty funny.  But then, most of the funny parts occur before Russell Brand shows up.  I’m trying really hard to be open minded, but that chimney-sweep-meets-surfer-dude accent of his is really just a hate crime waiting to happen.

He somehow manages to sound both idiotic and vaguely condescending, like Zach Galifiankis’ pretentious illiterate.