By Randy Myers
Contra Costa Times
Judd Apatow — the current king of movie comedy — took an admirable risk last summer with the bloated and terribly self-involved “Funny People.” The Adam Sandler film took a nose dive at the box office, a fate it deserved.
This summer, the creator of crowd-pleasers like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and “Knocked Up” rebounds mightily with “Get Him to the Greek,” one of the funniest, raunchiest and edgiest comedies in years.
The outrageous “Greek” works better than “Funny People” at least in part because Apatow, who tends to make films that meander too much, hands over writing and directing duties to a protege — “Forgetting Sarah Marshall’s” Nicholas Stoller. Instead, Apatow produces “Greek,” just as he did with the terrific teen comedy “Superbad.”