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With ample laughs and sharp performances, Forgetting Sarah Marshall finds just the right mix of romantic and raunchy comedy.
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Judd Apatow's comedies are always watchable and sometimes hilarious, but with the latest to emerge under his aegis, I have to admit it is getting harder to defend them against the charge of misogyny. Oct 18, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Judd Apatow's comedies are always watchable and sometimes hilarious, but with the latest to emerge under his aegis, I have to admit it is getting harder to defend them against the charge of misogyny.
Peter Bradshaw
It's got an engaging cast and enough laughs to compensate for some shortcomings. Oct 18, 2008 | Rating: B-
It's got an engaging cast and enough laughs to compensate for some shortcomings.
Joe Williams
With pratfalls, yucks, a crying jag, and what is starting to seem like the requisite flash of nudity, Jason Segel becomes this year's adorably hapless movie schlub. Oct 18, 2008 | Full Review…
With pratfalls, yucks, a crying jag, and what is starting to seem like the requisite flash of nudity, Jason Segel becomes this year's adorably hapless movie schlub.
Bob Mondello
'Sarah Marshall' remains a film of glorious moments and memorable scenes, lovingly crafted characters and sparkling one-liners. Apr 25, 2008 | Rating: 4/6 | Full Review…
'Sarah Marshall' remains a film of glorious moments and memorable scenes, lovingly crafted characters and sparkling one-liners.
Tom Huddleston
Jason Segel has what Nicolas Cage and Gene Wilder and a precious handful of other witty actors have: The ability to make egregious humiliation and painful neediness a source of limitless mirth. Apr 18, 2008 | Rating: 3.5/4
Jason Segel has what Nicolas Cage and Gene Wilder and a precious handful of other witty actors have: The ability to make egregious humiliation and painful neediness a source of limitless mirth.
Michael Phillips
Halfway through I realized that I'd lost most of my standards, maybe under my seat, and was enjoying the erratic evolution of the nonsense. Apr 18, 2008 | Full Review…
Halfway through I realized that I'd lost most of my standards, maybe under my seat, and was enjoying the erratic evolution of the nonsense.
Joe Morgenstern
Despite a handful of excellent, funny set pieces, Forgetting Sarah Marshall is sub Apatow and for the most part predictable and grating plot in that way that only romantic comedies can be. Nov 3, 2018 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Despite a handful of excellent, funny set pieces, Forgetting Sarah Marshall is sub Apatow and for the most part predictable and grating plot in that way that only romantic comedies can be.
Kaleem Aftab
It would be dishonest to say that the story... doesn't generate a few laughs. But anyone who isn't numb to every kind of offensive content will cringe at what comes between them. Oct 11, 2018 | Full Review…
It would be dishonest to say that the story... doesn't generate a few laughs. But anyone who isn't numb to every kind of offensive content will cringe at what comes between them.
Megan Basham
A good last scene does not a good movie make. Aug 25, 2018 | Full Review…
A good last scene does not a good movie make.
Marcianne Miller
... a hilarious comedy... [Full review in Spanish] Mar 19, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
... a hilarious comedy... [Full review in Spanish]
Laura Hiros
Laughter doesn't lie. Beyond the gimmickry of the penis gags, this is an romantic comedy with wit and charm to burn. Nov 29, 2017 | Full Review…
Laughter doesn't lie. Beyond the gimmickry of the penis gags, this is an romantic comedy with wit and charm to burn.
Brian D. Johnson
Forgetting Sarah Marshall does fall under the Apatow umbrella, but writer and star Jason Segel is the real creative force here, creating a fresh, funny script. Oct 14, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Forgetting Sarah Marshall does fall under the Apatow umbrella, but writer and star Jason Segel is the real creative force here, creating a fresh, funny script.
Ali Gray
The perfect example of a clever comedy that made me laugh more in a silent way (on the inside, if that is possible) than out loud, while pulling me gradually into its story by how touching it actually is, with a deeply honest narrative and a homogeneously great cast.
Super Reviewer
This is what happens when all the right people come together to do the right project. Funny and very memorable.
[img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] Sarah Marshall is one of those Apatow comedies that puts Slot A into Slot B and doesn't try to do much more than that. As a romantic comedy it sometimes relies on too many ideas from other films that share the same plot elements. Jason Segel also wrote the screenplay for the film, I think he is a hilariously funny guy but his character Peter, although likable and often funny is similar to Seth Rogen in Knocked Up and Jonah Hill in the Marshall spin off; Get Him to the Greek. As far as rom com's are concerned it's unoriginal but holds tightly together with raunchy humour that doesn't change it's tone but makes it even funnier. Full of charm and sharp performances, it's not an Apatow breakthrough like Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Knocked Up or Step Brothers it's very watchable and highly enjoyable.
Cute, funny movie. Jason segal and Mila Kunis did a wonderful job. Russell Brand is hilarious. Full of fun romantic comedy cliches but well worth the 2 hours.
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