Forgetting Sarah Marshall - 2008

Comedy

Jason Segal, Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell

Available on DVD/Bluray

I'll admit that I hardly knew anything about this movie before I saw it except that it was another creation from Judd Apatow (The 40 year old virgin, Knocked up, Superbad, and Pineapple express). So I knew it had potential to be funny but probably not as funny as the other movies. It's about a guy named Peter (Jason Segel) a tv show music composer who gets dumped by his hot televison star girlfriend Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell). He decides the best way to get over her is to take a vacation to Hawaii. While checking into his hotel he ends up running into Sarah who is staying at that same hotel with her new boyfriend Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) a very sexually confident British rockstar. While staying at the hotel Peter ends up getting to know the front desk girl Rachel (Mila Kunis) very well. Wink! Wink! While his problems with love and relationships are fading Sarah's are increasing when she realizes that she made a mistake breaking up with Peter. I know the plot doesn't sound funny but when you have a supporting cast like Paul Rudd (Anchorman), Bill Hader (SNL), Jonah Hill (Superbad) Jack McBrayer (30 Rock), and even short cameos of Jason Bateman (Arrested Development), and William Baldwin...pure gold. Plus Kristen Bell(heroes) is dang hot and then there's Mila Kunis (That 70's show/Family Guy) who I have now seen in a new light. Sure she was the better looking of the girls on That 70's show, but lately only associating her voice to the face of Meg Griffin on Family Guy you tend to forget how smokin hot she is. You'll see.

Over all I would recommend seeing this movie and I found it funnier the second time around when I watched it with friends.

-McKay R.

B+