Forgetting Sarah Marshall: Consistent
Most comedies, even good ones have low points where the film seems to drag. Forgetting Sarah Marshall is an exception. Even when it’s not funny, it’s still good, writes Devang Ghia
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Jason Segel is a jingle composer who is satisfied with what life has to offer. And topping all offerings is a beautiful, successful girlfriend (Kristen Bell) who plays the lead in the TV show he composes the background music for. Rather an odd couple them, what with one of them being super-successful and the other just a face in the crowd. To translate a popular Hindi adage, it’s a case of a grape in the mouth of an ape. One fine day, and not unexpectedly, he is dumped by his girlfriend. To recover from this shock he takes a vacation to Hawaii and to his horror, finds that his ex is also holidaying with her current at the same place.
So begins the premise for a light hearted rom-com. It could have been really bad if the focus was lost to the star power of a say, Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt. Forgetting succeeds primarily because you identify with the everyman played by Segel. He’s slightly overweight, not exactly a Greek god, lolls around on his sofa all day doing what he wants to do and eating what he wants to eat. Surely some part of this bears resemblance to your own life. If not, how about his exhibitionist tendencies? He goes full frontal one three separate occasions. Considering Segel has written the movie himself, it would have been deemed to be in bad taste if it wasn’t in such good humour.
In Hawaii, Segel hooks up with the receptionist at the hotel, played by the spiffy and petit Mila Kunis. And the ex’s boyfriend is played by Russell Brand, a pretentious British rocker who is a sex machine of sorts. A game of compatibility one-upmanship begins between these couples, or rather between Segel and Bell and their significant others become reluctant players.
Besides the leading quartet there are other interesting minor characters like the waiter who sucks up to the rocker to gain an audition or the bartender who offers Segel a shoulder to cry on.
Most comedies, even good ones have low points where the film seems to drag. Forgetting is an exception. Even when it’s not funny, it’s still good.
Director: Nicholas Stoller
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