Review: Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Last night after watching the concert DVD, Pascal, Mike and I watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall which is one of those lovely Judd Apatow productions (Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, etc.).  It was quite hilarious.  It follows Jason Segel (who actually wrote the film) and Kristen Bell (our very own Veronica Mars) as they end a five year relationship.  Jason Segel is having a tough time getting over her so he takes a vacation to Hawaii and happens to stumble into Kristen Bell with a new man in tow and pity takes over the film but is interspersed with hilarious parts.

I found the funniest part about this film are all the secondary/cameo roles in the film.  My favourite was when Jason Segel is in bed with a woman and it turns out to be Carla Gallo who played his girlfriend in the Apatow ‘Undeclared’ tv series (where a lot of the Apatow alumni appear).  There was also Jonah Hill (of Superbad fame…a film I still have yet to see) who plays a hilarious waiter.  So there are definitely a lot of cameo roles that keep the laughter up.

The only complaint I had about the film is that they make Kristen Bell out to be a harsh, harsh woman and she just can’t be that.  She’s too hot (and Vero agrees) to be an evil person.

Go rent this now.  It had us laughing all night.  Too bad Pascal realized she had already seen it 30 seconds into the film.