Trivia / Get Him to the Greek

• Completely Different Title: In France, the film is titled "American Trip" (still in English). One of the main reasons is that French people not familiar with Los Angeles (which is 99% of them and then some) understandably have no idea that the title refers to the Greek Theatre. Another is a bizarre Translation Matchmaking trend of re-titling movies with "Trip" in them that originated with the already Completely Different Title of The Hangover, "Very Bad Trip".
• Missing Trailer Scene: Several brief but prominent moments from the trailer never made it to the movie. Examples include someone suggesting "Mexican Jonas Brothers" as an idea at the record company meeting and Aldous driving down a hallway naked in a toy car saying "I'm a motorist!"
• Playing Against Type: Played with. While this film is a straight up comedy, Jonah Hill was typecast previously as playing loudmouthed jerks like in Superbad and comic relief characters in other Judd Apatow films, this role as Aaron Green he plays a pleasant leading man who just wants to keep his job whereas Russell Brand is typecast as the funnyman literally playing the same character.
• Retcon: In this film its stated that Aldous and Jackie Q had been together for years, however in the previous movie Aldous was dating Sarah Marshall. This is rectified by saying that he and Jackie had an open relationship even though there was no mention of Sarah being a side girl.
• Star-Making Role: Though he played Aldous Snow before, this role established Russell Brand as a leading man.
• What Could Have Been: Brie Larson auditioned for an unspecified role.
• You Look Familiar: Most obviously, Jonah Hill's main character is different than the guy he played in Sarah Marshall, but Carla Gallo (the "Gag Me" girl) here plays Destiny, and Da'Vone Mcdonald, the bartender Dwayne in the first movie, plays Sergio's security guard.
  • Destiny & The "Gag Me" Girl are (probably) the same person.
  • Dwayne does mention he moved from South Central LA to Oahu in Sarah Marshall, so the security guard (who is based in LA) could be his twin brother or something.

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