The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hi, I'm Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, and I'm here with a Slate spoiler special on Get Him to the Greek.

Joining me from Sydney, Australia, by phone, is Alice Tynan, a freelance writer and a film critic and blogger.

Hi, Alice.

Hi, how's it going?

Pretty well. It's great to have you on again.

Alice has contributed, you should know, to Slate podcast before. You were the winner of our Slate Culture Gab Fest conversion contest, which was a listener we had where people had to convert a non-podcast listener and then tell us their story. And people can go listen to the Gab Fest to hear Alice's wonderful conversion story. But as her prize, she did a guest endorsement on that podcast. And she did such a great job and

is such a good film interlocutor that I thought that I would have her on for, that I thought I would

have her on for this spoiler as well. And also, you should know listeners, that I combed the globe to

I literally had to go to the other side of the planet to find someone to spoil this movie with me,

because after I saw it, I realized it really needs to be spoiled and that everything I wanted to talk about would have given away a secret from the movie.

So the review will probably not actually contain very much of what I think about the movie.

It's all here, so I'm glad you're listening.

Well, I'm happy I could help.

It's great to have you on.

So let's start off just with a quick reaction. Disappointed, happy,

did you laugh at Get Him to the Greek? I laughed a little bit. I loved at the beginning.

I was totally with the kind of live-aid spoof of African child and this kind of glam rocker, you know,

killing himself politically.

Right, it starts off with a fake music video, we should say.

A fake music video for a sort of We Are the World type fundraising benefit song.

Yes, and it's awful and it's brilliant. And I was on the idea of this road movie and the whole idea of getting this rock star to the Greek theater.

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