Basically a chick-flick, but the guys have all the 'chick' roles.

Rating: 9/10 (19 April 2008)

This is by far the funniest movie I've seen in quite some time. Jason Segel and his supporting cast are absolutely hilarious. Although the movie does have a very predictable storyline and ending, it was still a very original film. From the early part of the film, where we get to see full-frontal male nudity, which was so shocking that it was amazingly funny, to the last few jokes that take place during the credits (so don't leave until the final credit has rolled), this movie does not let up. I was laughing so hard during most of this movie and the rest of the audience was also busting a gut every step of the way. Jason Segel plays Peter Bretter, a musician who has a job that one may think is great, but he actually hates it. Meanwhile he dreams of writing a rock-opera with Dracula as the main character. When his television-star girlfriend, Sarah Marshall (Kristin Bell), dumps him, he takes on all the characteristics one would expect of a girl who just got dumped in every run-of-the-mill chick-flick. His buddy suggests he try to get over her by going on a vacation. He decides to follow this advice, and who does he run in to at the hotel resort, but none other than his ex and her new boyfriend, Aldous Snow (Russell Brand), a famous musician. Peter does not want to appear weak and run away, so he sticks it out and stays at the hotel regardless. All the while, he goes through bouts of wanting Sarah Marshall back, to wanting to move on, and back and forth again. I started off disliking the character Aldous Snow, whose songs are so lame and chauvinistic, that we are intended to hate him, but at the same time his songs are so lame that they are too funny. In the end I loved this character, who slowly becomes more likable as his down-to-earth side is revealed, and thought his interactions with Segel were among the funniest scenes in the movie. Mila Kunis plays Rachel Jansen, who predictably falls for Peter as she attempts to help him realize that Sarah Marshall may not be the right women for him.