Full frontal buffoonery

Rating: Null/10 (20 January 2012)

"Forgetting Sarah Marshall" is a sex comedy about a middle aged man who, seeking to get over a broken heart, goes on holiday to Hawaii. Once there he meets his ex girlfriend, Sarah Marshall, the very woman he is trying to forget. Hilarity then ensues...supposedly.
In some circles the film is touted as some kind of modern comedy masterpiece, but it's a slow, formulaic, unfunny film, and its song sequences can't touch "The Wedding Singer", the broken-heart film it infrequently seems to be emulating. Nevertheless, some of the film's secondary characters – William Baldwin, Jonah Hill and the always funny Paul Rudd – generate giggles, and the film makes two pretty great uses of male, full-frontal nudity, suggestive here of a kind of vulnerability and emotional nakedness.
See Paul Rudd in "The Shape of Things" instead, a recent sex comedy which completely re-writes the rule book.
5/10 – Worth one viewing.