Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

Cast

Mila Kunis
as Rachel Jansen
Paul Rudd
as Chuck
Kristen Bell
as Sarah Marshall
Kristen Wiig
as Yoga Instructor

Get more information about Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) on IMDb

Genres & Description

Action Comedy Drama Romance

7.2 / 10

Peter is a composer and a likable sad sack who's devastated when his girlfriend of five years, Sarah Marshall, the star of a cheesy CSI-style crime show, dumps him. He weeps, he rails, he mopes. Finally, his step-brother Brian suggests Hawaii, so Peter heads for a resort on Oahu where, as he's checking in, he sees Sarah and her new beau, Aldous, a polymorphously perverse English rocker. The weeping and moping start again, until Peter is rescued by Rachel, a thoughtful hotel clerk who invites him to a luau and to hang out. Although he constantly runs into Sarah and Aldous, Peter starts to come alive again. Will Sarah realize what she's lost, and what about Rachel?

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Ethidian

I love 'Critics Picks', but I hate that critics widely respect this shallow genre and all of its corner-cutting, lazy, cookie-cutter story-telling. - @Monday, February 19, 2018 4:14 AM

wabdih

I can't imagine this interviewer laughing at anything, soo serious - @Wednesday, February 15, 2012 11:33 PM

DarkRequiem

Is it just me, or did he say Christian Bale instead of Kristen Bell? - @Monday, February 13, 2012 3:56 AM

valar

@blavia77 I thought it was funny, but it was kind of a let-down after so many people talked it up so much before I saw it. I thought Tropic Thunder was much funnier and it came out a few months later. - @Wednesday, June 15, 2011 6:25 AM

victoria grant

Russell Brand should have been naked in this film NOT Jason Segel - @Wednesday, June 1, 2011 12:38 PM

amy o

russell was the best in this film. love russell. - @Wednesday, May 25, 2011 11:49 PM

blavia77

Did anyone else not find this movie funny and not get why it got any attention? I like Judd Apatow films, but this one sucked. - @Monday, May 23, 2011 8:07 AM

valar

I'm also tired of the so-so man/super-hot woman combo you almost always see in these movies, and I'm a guy btw. I thought the review was fair, and I would say this reviewer hardly has a stick up his ass: one of his "Critic's Picks" is First Blood Pt. 2! - @Saturday, May 7, 2011 7:02 AM

uscomputing

@slimfast67 Go write one then shit - @Friday, May 6, 2011 4:35 PM

slimfast67

@thenofxlagwagon Well sure, it's not unrealistic that a rich succesfull comedian dates attractive women. On screen though, it would be nice to see that formula broken - @Saturday, April 16, 2011 3:05 PM

rss313

watch richar roepers review if you really like this movie - @Monday, April 4, 2011 6:17 PM

thenofxlagwagon

@slimfast67 jason segel actually dates rather attractive women generally, so it's not that unrealistic that he'd be with an attractive women in the movie he wrote right? - @Wednesday, March 23, 2011 6:28 AM

slimfast67

I totally agree with this review! American comedy is so often: fat guy, skinny (hot) wife - @Friday, February 18, 2011 11:23 AM

mrbriscoe2001

movie really wasn't up to judd's usual standard...all that other "guy slovenly-female hot stuff" is a critic letting his politics get in the way of reviewing a movie...which seems to happen constantly... - @Thursday, December 23, 2010 3:35 PM

MeatballsMarlowe

Actually, I thought Forgetting Sarah Marshall did a great job at developing its female characters in contrast with other guy-centered comedies. I thought both Kristen Bell and Mila Kunis played characters that felt very real. - @Sunday, November 14, 2010 9:44 PM

Sam Tu Tuong Chung

well pretty boys dont always get pretty girls lol you can be an ugly successful skinny rockstar and get any chick.,,, chicks dig musicians that is a given, Most women i know dont like it when their mates are better looking then them... makes them insecure. So average dudes you do have a chance with hot ladies lol - @Monday, June 15, 2009 7:13 AM

owenhunt

They were pretty and clearly above their male counterpart's levels of attractiveness. That said Russel Brand in real life could get three women better than these two and quicker, harsh but true lol. - @Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:28 PM

owenhunt

I don't think many characters undertook a great deal of development and if anything the recptionist was the most developed character, so his point on developing female characters in romantic comedy movies didn't wash with me as well as it could have in using this movie as an example. As for how attractive the female characters are meant to be? I get this man's point, but again I have to defer my agreement to a later date as I don't think either leading women in this film were spectacular. - @Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:26 PM

GoCubsGoLee

no crap, she is in the movie - @Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:09 AM

leechpeach337

I think he was referring to both Jason Segel and Russell Brand ... and not that they're hideous, but that they're kind of schlubs in different ways, while women have to be thin and perfect yet we're supposed to believe that they'd fall for these guys. - @Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:26 PM

Nick Chang

lol at 0:11 its jackie from thats 70s show - @Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:37 PM

Jim Doza

"You sound like you're from Lon-Don!" Might be the funniest line in the movie. LMAO - @Monday, December 8, 2008 11:57 PM