Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Rating: 6/10 (9 January 2011)

This was the first feature film to star of Britain's most well known up and coming comedy stars, since Big Brother's Big Mouth he has shot to fame, I confess I saw the follow up, Get Him to the Greek, before this, but it doesn't really matter. Basically musician and composer Peter Bretter (Jason Segel, also writing) is unmotivated, and is shocked to have his girlfriend of five years, and star of hit television show Crime Scene, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell), dump him for another man. The situation is made worse as he works on the set of her show, so his step-brother Brian Bretter (Bill Hader) suggests he should take a vacation to try and get over his love, so he chooses Hawaii. Arriving at the tropical paradise, Turtle Bay Resort, a place that Sarah had mentioned wanting to go to, and not very coincidently she arrives on the same day with her new boyfriend. She is now with the pretentious lead singer of the band Infant Sorrow, pop singer Aldous Snow (Russell Brand), making his plan to forget about her impossible, and all staff and guests of the hotel are aware. Neither Peter and Sarah are leaving the resort hotel though, even with everyone knowing, and he instead, with the help of advice from Brian and his wife Liz Bretter (Liz Cackowski) tries to get with another woman. Customer services concierge and agent Rachel Jansen (Family Guy's Mila Kunis) is the one who gave him an expensive suite at a lower price, and as he spends time with her he does feel attraction. Of course Sarah is not too far away, she and Aldous are having a little rough patch, so with things like overhearing sex she is jealous and tries to compete, and not long afterwards Aldous ends their relationship. Next day Peter and Aldous are surfing together, he finds out about the split, so he goes to see Sarah and admits he still loves her, and they start a sexual reunion, but even getting a blowjob he feels he feels more for Rachel now. She finds out about what happened and refuses to see him, he tries to get her back by getting the bar owner take down her humiliating nude photo from the men's toilets, but he flies back to Los Angeles thinking it hasn't worked. Peter being alone and feeling sad he decides to continue the inspiration he got abroad for his Dracula musical, "A Taste for Love", and completed he sends Rachel an invitation for the opening night, and after the success they rekindle their affections, and the end also sees Sarah getting a new show. Also starring Jonah Hill as Matthew the Waiter, Paul Rudd as Chuck the surfing instructor, William Baldwin as Detective Hunter Rush and Jason Bateman as Animal Instincts Detective. Segel is very amusing and did a pretty good job writing, Bell is cute as his ex-girlfriend, Kunis is attractive and likable, and Brand does his best to make some good laughs in his debut, there are some surprisingly funny sequences, so you won't be disappointed, a worthwhile romantic comedy. Good!