Accompanying a famous English rock star, Aldous Snow, who is deeply addicted to drugs and drinking and has a very bad life of vices, is not an easy mission for Aaron Green, who works at a record company, who struggles against accompanying him from Los Angeles to the Greek, in order to attend a concert.
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.
The jury's still out on Brand as a leading man, at least on this evidence, but chances are you won't find a vehicle better suited to his comic sensibilities than this one.
