"but then I just carried on living my life"

Rating: 9/10 (8 August 2009)

This Apatow 2008 production is the first big Jason Segel film project, who the f*** is Jason Segel? Well, if you're like me you just know him for his role in Knocked Up as one of the gang of funny dudes. I guess Seth Rogen could have been just about right here playing the main role (the character that is "forgetting Sarah Marshall") but this is Segel's film, he wrote it, he "took" Rogen's "place" and damn he had a great time, I mean Kristen Bell and MILA KUNIS!
I really loved Forgetting Sarah Marshall and frankly I wasn't expecting anything less. Saying that Segel took Rogen's place can mean that here Segel's character, Peter Bretter, is the one with really funny friends, you know Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd and Bill Hader are here but actually here is not like in the 40 Year Old Virgin or Knocked Up since here there is not a group of friends, it's basically Peter alone going to Hawaii after hearing from his girlfriend of 5 years, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell), that she found someone else. Peter is a musician, currently composing the music for the show in which Sarah stars, so basically and at first sight Peter is simply the victim of a TV star whore, yeah at first sight Sarah is nothing better than that. So we go to Hawaii with our main character, trying to change the bad time he was having in LA yet some few minutes in the Hawaiian hotel and we see Peter and Sarah face to face, Peter meets Sarah's new boyfriend Aldous Snow (Russell Brand), Hawaii will be basically a crying all time type of vacation for Peter. However from the moment he realized that Sarah was also in Hawaii a woman have been acting really, really nice with him, a perfect woman (played by Kunis) and of course it will be just matter of time foryou know, and while Peter and Rachel, Kunis' character certainly, start to hang out, have a good time together the relation of Sarah and Snow starts to go down. Was expected then now, and with the cancellation of the Sarah's show Crime Scene, things are not going to be fine for the, still for us, whore that leaved out main character and I say "still" because at this point when Sarah begins to miss Peter of course we are like, well before I write anything I better add that we find out, at the same time that Peter, that Snow slept with Sarah for a year, she cheated our character a whole year! So yeah, poor Peterbut, and is a big but, then we hear Sarah and damn she speaks to Peter in a great way, he was just a f****** stupid and certainly for us was since always the victim. But of course the past is just the past and here our character will be act like an idiot again, now for some moments forgetting Rachel, he will ruin things, and that means it's time for Dracula, time for puppets!
Segel basically did whatever he wanted, we have him flashing, singing his Dracula songs, the results are hilarious. And back with the three supportive funny dudes, well Bill Hader, who plays Peter's stepbrother, is quite funny doing team with Liz Cackowski (and getting all f****** excited while singing the Dracula musical!), Paul Rudd delivers some good laughs but he is almost not worthy to mention, on the contrary Jonah Hill is, like always, being himself and delivering fantastic hilarious moments (also worthy to mention the fun with Jack McBrayer. Poor dude, now that's suffering, and later on enjoying, a honeymoon!). But really the characters of Rudd and Hill make a nice friendship with Peter (his real Hawaiian pals are two very funny big dudes. For one of them Peter is like Gandhi but even better! Isn't that friendship?), Rudd's is a surfer who suffers a bit of amnesia (drugs are bad, mmmkayy?) and Hill's character is basically in love with Aldous Snow (loved basically all the jokes with these two). And, for me, Russell Brand steals the film"I hate your music" "well, I f**** the housekeeper".