Off-beat romantic comedy, with graphic male frontal nudity.

Rating: Null/10 (25 October 2008)

We watch everything the public library gets, and during the first 15 minutes of this movie, "Forgetting Sarah Marshall", we were almost certain that it was a very bad movie. I am glad we continued watching it and I am doubly glad that we were wrong.
However it has several scenes of nudity, a small amount of female topless nudity, but mostly frontal, non-erect male nudity that was not sexual at all. In fact he will probably lose a lot of potential dates from that. Still, I consider this a movie for adults, not teenagers, because of the pervasive off-color language and sexual references.
Jason Segel is musician Peter Bretter who is dating the pretty Sarah Marshall, star of a TV series. He happens to provide the keyboard background music for the shows. But early in the story Peter gets dumped, and he takes it very hard. At the urging of his best friend Peter goes off to Hawaii for a break.
Kristen Bell is petite, blond Sarah Marshall who clearly is a bit stuck on herself. As luck would have it, she and her new boyfriend, a famous singer of weird songs, are there also, and staying at the same hotel. This situation provides many opportunities for funny moments as Peter tries to cope, but can't avoid continually meeting up with Sarah.
My favorite in this movie is pretty, dark Russian native Mila Kunis as Rachel Jansen. She works at the front desk of the hotel, arranges for Peter to have a special room, and keenly observes what is going on with Peter and Sarah. Although all these actors are primarily TV series actors, she has the most natural and believable acting style. I look forward to seeing her in more movies.
Overall a very funny and entertaining movie about this man's attempts to get over his former girlfriend.
SPOILERS: As the story develops Peter and Rachel get to be friends and go places together after hours. Their friendship develops to more until they sleep together. But meanwhile Sarah figures out her new boyfriend is really a cad, and tries to make up with Peter, but he decides against it. This does have the effect of breaking off Rachel, but back in the states as Peter sees the initial stage performance of his puppet "Dracula" rock opera, Rachel is there and she and Peter seem destined to develop a lasting relationship.
N.B. - On the DVD extra, it is told that the actor Segel (Peter) in real life was already working on the Dracula stage piece and this movie allowed him to develop it further and integrate it into the story.