I'm convinced: Judd Apatow is a wizard. How else does one man keep delivering scads of funny flicks like Anchorman, Knocked Up, and Superbad? (We'll ignore Walk Hard for the time being.) I don't even like romantic comedies, and I loved Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Wizardry, I'm telling you.
Whatever magic Apatow's been using, he struck a winning formula with Jason Segel (of How I Met Your Mother fame) in the lead role of Peter Bretter, our oafish, lovelorn protagonist who just had his heart ripped to shreds by his TV star girlfriend, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell). Not only is breaking up hard to do in this film, it's hard to look at too: within the first five minutes, Peter is completely naked, begging for mercy and hysterically refusing to put clothes on. It only gets better from there.
It turns out that Sarah has left Peter for Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) a British rock star with an aversion to wearing shirts. At the encouragement of his step brother (Bill Hader), Peter decides to take an open-ended vacation in Hawaii, but unwittingly stays at the same resort as his ex and her new beau. In between moping about the beach and crying so loud that other guests complain, Peter finds himself falling for the sultry front desk girl, Rachel Jansen (Mila Kunis).
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it. The relationship between Peter and Rachel was really
refreshing. One thing though.. Aldous Snow gets the coral stuck in
his thigh, not his abdomen.