Forgetting Sarah Marshall is the new unromantic comedy produced by Judd Apatow and written by and starring
How I Met Your Mother's Jason Segel. Segel stars as Peter, the guy behind the music of NBC's hit show
Crime Scene and he happens to be dating the show's star, no not William Baldwin, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell.) Er... he was dating her, until he finds out that she's fallen for someone else, Brit rocker, Aldous Snow. Way beyond depressed Peter decides to take it to Hawaii and get away from LA and try and relax, but the hotel he goes to because it was the one Sarah talked about all the time happens to be the hotel that Sarah Marshall is staying in when Peter checks in. Fortunately he meets nice hotel receptionist, Rachel (Mila Kunis) and the other hotel staff, who help him forget Sarah Marshall.
Overall the movie is successful in executing it's premise with a fair dose of humor. While like most Apatow produced projects, the film lags a bit in the second act, but for the most there's enough going on that you won't grow restless. The inside jokes are probably the best part of the film, from Segel's character wanting to write a Muppet musical (Segel's writing a Muppet movie in real life) to Sarah Marshall trying to put the positive spin on her scary movie dud that sounds a lot like Bell's foray into the movies with
Pulse. The actors all do a great job, especially Segel who literally bares all in his much reported penis flashing at the beginning of the movie -- the editing is retarded and flashes a long shot of him to make it clear you saw his penis but quick enough that it's like a blink, either show it or don't, it's a body part for goodness sake. Also what makes this film great is it doesn't fall back on romantic comedy or just-dumped movie cliches. It's refreshing, even if some of the humor seems to be recycled from
Knocked Up,
Superbad, and
The Forty Year-Old Virgin.
B/B-
As for
the trailer... It sets up the first act, the break-up which isn't really spoiling anything since the title gives it away. While glimpses of scenes (and jokes) from throughout the entire second act the turning points remain unspoiled as does the entire third act. In all the trailer
spoils about 25% of the movie.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall is the new unromantic comedy produced by Judd Apatow and written by and starring How I Met Your Mother's Jason Segel. Segel stars as Peter, the guy behind the music of NBC's hit show Crime Scene and he happens to be dating the show's star, no not William Baldwin, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell.) Er... he was dating her, until he finds out that she's fallen for someone else, Brit rocker, Aldous Snow. Way beyond depressed Peter decides to take it to Hawaii and get away from LA and try and relax, but the hotel he goes to because it was the one Sarah talked about all the time happens to be the hotel that Sarah Marshall is staying in when Peter checks in. Fortunately he meets nice hotel receptionist, Rachel (Mila Kunis) and the other hotel staff, who help him forget Sarah Marshall.
Overall the movie is successful in executing it's premise with a fair dose of humor. While like most Apatow produced projects, the film lags a bit in the second act, but for the most there's enough going on that you won't grow restless. The inside jokes are probably the best part of the film, from Segel's character wanting to write a Muppet musical (Segel's writing a Muppet movie in real life) to Sarah Marshall trying to put the positive spin on her scary movie dud that sounds a lot like Bell's foray into the movies with Pulse. The actors all do a great job, especially Segel who literally bares all in his much reported penis flashing at the beginning of the movie -- the editing is retarded and flashes a long shot of him to make it clear you saw his penis but quick enough that it's like a blink, either show it or don't, it's a body part for goodness sake. Also what makes this film great is it doesn't fall back on romantic comedy or just-dumped movie cliches. It's refreshing, even if some of the humor seems to be recycled from Knocked Up, Superbad, and The Forty Year-Old Virgin. B/B-
As for the trailer... It sets up the first act, the break-up which isn't really spoiling anything since the title gives it away. While glimpses of scenes (and jokes) from throughout the entire second act the turning points remain unspoiled as does the entire third act. In all the trailer spoils about 25% of the movie.
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