very funny, especially Sean Combs

Rating: 8/10 (16 October 2011)

Russell Brand was quite amusing in Forgetting Sarah Marshall playing a pretentious yet rather likable rock star. Brand's character might seem like something that would work best in small doses, but he works surprisingly well as a major character in this crazier take on the My Favorite Year theme of a nice boy who has to babysit a famous lunatic.
Produced by Judd Apatow, this movie could be seen as a commentary on the guy's wish fulfillment theme of so many of his films. Here we have a nebbish who gets to lead the life of a rock star, but this is not portrayed as a good thing, making it more of a be-careful-what-you-wish for theme.
Brand is very funny in this film (and in the end proves he'd make a pretty good rock star), but it is Sean Combs who supplies the biggest laughs with a take-no-prisoners performance as a music studio head.
Brand's peculiar charisma and the movie's frenetic pace work well, and over all I enjoyed this movie a bit more than Forgetting Sarah Marshall.