This quirky, romantic, comedy is from the minds that brought you 40-year-old Virgin, Knocked-up, and Super Bad.
Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) is a struggling musician who makes the between scenes music (think Law and Order’s dun dun) for the hit crime show Crime Scene. His five-year relationship to Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell), the star of Crime Scene, has just ended with the ever-so-devastating “I love you but I’m not in love with you” speech.
Thrown into misery and consoled by his step-brother Brian Bretter (Bill Hader), Peter starts visiting clubs and bars in hopes of finding his next true love. After three weeks of finding horrible one-night stands, Peter decides to hop a flight from Los Angeles to Hawaii and get away for a brief trip to clear his head.
Peter inadvertently checks into the same hotel that Sarah and her new boyfriend Aldous Snow (Russell Brand), the hot lead singer of a pop group, happen to be staying at. Not the start to a restful getaway that Peter expected and now feeling low and embarrassed is ready to leave Hawaii. As luck would have it he is saved by perky hotel clerk Rachel Jansen (Mila Kunis) as she helps by giving him a complementary room.
As with all romantic comedies, the standard formula (Boy loves Girl, boy loses girl, boy finds new girl) is there. And this does result in lots of good one-liners and funny situations as they are layered throughout the movie.
As with any Judd Apatow movie, the minor-characters that make up the real world have scenes that enhance the comedy. There is a minor sub-plot between a recently married couple staying at the hotel having some honeymoon sexual issues. The husband is a bit shy in the sack and seeks Aldous’ advice on how to keep the new wife happy. I won’t give away the outcome but I will say that the accompanying training montage will result in tears rolling from your eyes due to laughter.
This is a fun movie that you and your significant other will enjoy seeing together as it has the best for both worlds. Forgetting Sarah Marshall is rated “R”, has a runtime of 2-hour, and is distributed by Universal Pictures.
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Written by: Plus1 on Fri, Apr 18, 2008