Pinnacle records has the perfect plan to get their sinking company back on track: a comeback concert in LA featuring Aldous Snow, a fading rockstar who has dropped off the radar in recent years. Record company intern Aaron Green is faced with the monumental task of bringing his idol, out of control rock star Aldous Snow, back to LA for his comeback show.
The movie's story is conventional in shape, but it has passages of crazy exhilaration and brilliant invention.
– David Denby,
New Yorker,
7 Jun 2010
rotten:
Making Aldous regret his wicked ways is a buzz-kill of major proportions.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
4 Jun 2010
fresh:
This is Brand's movie all the way: he's the one snorting the drugs, throwing the tantrums and getting the lion's share of the laughs.
– Tom Huddleston,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2010
fresh:
Brand can seem simultaneously randy and strung-out and is often very funny. Hill is surprisingly touching, which is quite a feat given the number of orifices he is required to display.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
11 Jun 2010
fresh:
Cheerfully profane in the manner of a dormitory bull session.