Mmovie has a charm, lightness, but doesn't avoid some darker elements

Rating: 8/10 (28 January 2019)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008). There is something different about Forgetting Sarah Marshall as this romance comedy but in a good way. Jason Segel's Peter Bretter's character is more refined and credible in his comedic performance than Matthew Perry's Oz Oseransky character in The Whole Nine Yards (2000) even as both their character share similar personas. Kristen Bell's inevitably second to Mila Kunis's character (later Best Actress Oscar winner in Black Swan) surprisingly retains a powerful and in ways sympathetic presence almost to the end, which is only saved by the unusual insert sequence with the ending credits. There is something honest and gripping in the script as it presence relational turmoil and regretful mistakes on the part of its characters. The overall movie has a charm, lightness, but doesn't avoid some darker elements as well as a genuinely sensitive and humorous and touching musical rendition of a Dracula character.