Wasn’t the redhead Jack McBrayer is married to the same girl Jerri Blank is always hitting on in gym class in Strangers with Candy? She’s adorable.
HOW CAN YOU READ THIS…
…IF YOU ARE BLIND?
The rockstar was probably my favorite character of the movie. You can see the whole music video here. It’s hilarious, partly because I can easily imagine that being a real music video by a real band.
Some funny stuff, but I can’t recommend it to all audiences. The pacing was god-awful in parts. I couldn’t get why Mila’s character found our hero so attractive that she gave him a free hotel suite within 2 minutes of meeting him. So far he’d played a loser real well, but I hadn’t gotten why I should care about him.
For a movie so obsessed with sex and showing off the guys package, it would have been nice to see some actual female skin (not the side shots with artfully placed arms, etc.) And multiple sex scenes of Jack McBreyer (Kenneth from 30 Rock), now there’s someone who probably never thought they would be doing that on film!
I don’t think she did that because she was attracted to him, she did that because she felt sorry for him. She’d been in his position herself (with her cheating surfer boyfriend) and sympathized with him.
Thanks! That video is the greatest thing ever. (At least for this week.)
What about the “Dracula” musical with puppets? Am I the only one who would really like to see a full length version of that play?
Anyone??? 
I actually found that play within a play to be very interesting, funny, and charming. There seemed to be a lot of work done on the sets, puppets, and effects in the play – almost too much work to just be done solely for the movie. Does anyone know where those puppets and sets came from?
Thanks,
J.
I LOVED this movie. For one, I liked that every character was flawed and almost all of them came away learning something (except the rock star who just went on living his life - LOL). I LOVED the Dracula musical, in fact, the first time the main character sings the song in the bar, I nearly peed my pants laughing (literally, I am 7 months pregnant and drank a large Sprite during the movie). The show at the end was brilliant. I was especially glad about the lack of gross-out slapstick. That trend finally seems to be falling off.
After the movie, my friend went on and on about how inconsistent the characters were, and that people who seemed likeable suddenly were portrayed as jerks at the end and vice versa. I totally disagreed with him. Sarah, for example, comes off as kind of spoiled and selfish, becomes more sympathetic but then takes a turn for the worse. Many characters went from sympathetic to jerk and back - the brit boyfriend was superb in this capacity - what a enjoyable douchebag!
On the whole, I enjoyed this movie a great deal.
*Segel’s breakthrough movie, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” deserves to ride the wave of the latest, hottest micro-trend in pictures: the romantic comedy for guys.
This is what Judd Apatow, who produced “Sarah Marshall,” has brought to movies in the past few years: “40-Year-Old Virgin”? For guys. “Knocked Up”? Face it: It was a guy movie. So was “Superbad.” These movies take a genre usually pitched to a female audience but then add sex, a touch of gross-out humor and - most important - a healthy dose of male vulnerability. Like its predecessors, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” is a smart comedy that trades on social embarrassment and shows love from the standpoint of male insecurity. *
From Mick LaSalle’s review ( SF Chronicle ).