Not Funny
I’ve tried watching this trailer a couple of times now, and I can only focus on one thing, which is that Jonah Hill has become such a wildly out-of-control beach ball that his appearance is getting in the way of his shtick. It’s obviously okay or even de rigeur for a comedic actor to be “the fat guy,” but Hill has become the “working-on-a-heart-attack guy” or “the guy who’s shooting for John Candy status when he hits his 40s.”
Hill’s Superbad physique was relatively svelte compared to how he looks now. You think one or two of his Judd Apatow pallies would stage an intervention, but I guess they’d rather be cool and low-key about it, just like Harry Nillson‘s “friends” never forced the issue about his alcoholism.
The film is called Get Him To The Greek (Universal, 6,.4,). Nicholas Stoller directs from a script he co-wrote with Rodney Rothman. Russell Brand, Rose Byrne, Sean Combs and Elisabeth Moss costar with Hill.
If memory serves, he was actually bigger in his 40-Year-Old Virgin scene, and “slimmed down” for Superbad.
I gotta agree. How exactly does his weight help sell the flick?
Jesus do you have a phobia about this….
It’s like Seth Rogen donated the weight he lost to Jonah Hill.
Jesus, you’re in denial. The man is pining for slothitude and an early death….hellooo?
Disagree. Go to 1:18 in the YouTube trailer above. That half-second shot of Hill tripping balls is the funniest image ever. I laugh every time I see it (which is every time I go to the movies, because this trailer has played before the last 30 things I’ve seen.)
Wells’ usual anti-fat railing aside, this:
The 26 year-old Hill is fatter right now than Oliver Hardy ever became, even towards the end of his career in the late ’40s.
is wrong:
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Gabourey Sidibe and Jonah Hill should collaborate on a feature film.
Lets be real. If Hill lost 75-100 pounds, he’d also lose 95% of the movie roles he gets, and his career would be in the toilet. Fat, goofy looking guys are in big demand.
If forced to choose, I’ll take the pure expressions of revulsion over the crabbed attempts at humanitarian “concern” for Hill. Just because the former ring much truer.
Congrats to Hopper.
Hill’s a funny dude. I’ll see this.
I just don’t understand why Russell Brand is the same character as in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” but Jonah Hill is now somehow a new character. IIRC, wasn’t his “Marshall” character trying to fob off a CD of his band onto Brand? Why not just have Hill be THAT character, having somehow wormed his way into show-business? It’s already a half-sequel to “Marshall” anyway; why not just go whole hog? That, combined with the fact that this looks like a turd waiting to poke out this summer, irritates me.
Why does Brand always look like he needs a shower and some deodorant?
The “Are you kidding around” bit at the end of the first trailer cracks me up. Jonah Hill’s delivery is great, but I wonder if it would play as well if he was slimmer.
Poor guy has gained even more weight since filming Greek, (see pics of him at “Dragon Train” premiere). Honestly, the stress of success is doing him in. Jeff is right. We should send him a “Get thin, soon” card.
America, why did you have to let Russell Brand in? We’ve got plenty of homegrown annoying jerkoffs.
And Jonah Hill has just been cast to play the slim Paul DePodesta in Moneyball, reportedly finally shooting this summer with Brad Pitt.
Russell Brand is funny. Check out this excellent routine. Some of the jokes are UK-centric, but just know he’s talking about a convicted child murderer/molester and The Sun tabloid newspaper: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1uhmnNnmL8
Plus he did a decent show way back when he hung around with some members of the far-right British National Party and exposed some of their more heinous attitudes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGDFFQxawxI
He’s funny.
The retro MIAMI VICE stubble thing can go away again, please. It’s especially unattractive on a guy with that much chin.
Stoller really loves the MEAN STREETS face-cam, doesn’t he?
The stubble is fat guy camouflage, he would look even fatter if he shaved. The, apparently retracted, Oliver Hardy comparison wasn’t much of an exaggeration.
Jonah Hill at the above mentioned How Train Your Dragon Premiere:
http://tinyurl.com/yanxhlj
The thing with these fat dudes is, no matter how much weight they lose, they’re still fat. I don’t care how skinny Rogen gets, I still think FAT when I see him, same with Al Roker. Hill could stand to lose 100 lbs and he’d still be “fat and funny.”
I saw him at Hugo’s on Santa Monica Blvd a few months ago and he was an absolute balloon. It’s embarrassing.
Poor Hill probably can’t afford an Equinox membership.
Can’t wait for the sequel “Get Him to the Doctor”, where they spend the whole movie trying to force Hill to get his cholesterol checked.
@ jse33: I love it… good one.
Both he and Brand look really unpleasant in this trailer, for different reasons. Movie looks repellent.
Hill looks a lot fatter in Cyrus, although he looked a bit thinner in person during the Cyrus Q&A.
if Hill shaved he wouldn’t just look fatter, he’d look like a lesbian
He can take the Jack Weston role in the FOUR SEASONS prequel.
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