Could have been much better

Rating: 7/10 (12 July 2009)

Watching this movie the other night, I was standing on two sides.
On the first side, the story is extremely predictable: Girl (Sarah, played by Kristen Bell) breaks up with boy (Peter, played by Peter Segel), boy decides to run away from his pain by going on a trip, boy meets another girl (Rachel, played by the adorable Mila Kunis), they hang out a lot, boy falls in love with girl, boy makes a mistake with his ex-girlfriend, new girl doesn't want to see boy anymore, but in the end they finally come together. This is on one hand a lame and predictable story, I saw the break up with Rachel coming from far and also the moment that they are coming together again.
On the other hand, I have seen very interesting things in the movie that makes it an above-normal comedy. The movie develops to an excellent story, and even made me think off great movies like "Before Sunset", "Garden State" and "Definitely, Maybe" that have the same atmosphere. There is a scene in which Peter has been forced by Rachel to play the piano, and that scene makes you want to express yourself and show your talent to everyone, which I have only seen in a couple of movies to this date. Rachel makes you smile and makes you want to live and get out everything life has to offer.
There are more scenes in which the movie stands above the normal comedy and where you think "wow, this dialog is very clever and smart". There is a scene in which Peter apologize to Rachel about what has happened in the bedroom with Sarah, where the dialog is very clever, and you are hoping that Rachel accepts his apologize. But sadly, at the end of this dialog, the movie falls back into the cheap predictable romance story it was starting with, and loses all his credits. This was such a bummer for me, and watching the end credits it left me with the feeling "why in earth have they done this!" I was very disappointed that the story was ruined by these last scenes which could have made Forgetting Sarah Marshall unforgettable and one of the best movies I have seen in years.
Could have been much better. 7/10