Oh heartache, you are a experience we all wish we could forget. In Judd Apatow’s latest comedy, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, our hero, Peter (Jason Segel), attempts to do just that: forget his lover of 5 years, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell). Of course, the movie assumes you know this right from the get go, as it does little to set up any premise for the plot. Thankfully for them, there is very little plot to grasp. Good for them!

Sarah tells Peter goodbye, and he’s thrown into heartache and despair. Next thing we know, we’re in Hawaii. Why Hawaii? Why not. The rest of the movie just follows Peter’s misadventures in Hawaii. He does little to “forget Sarah Marshall,” and in fact spends most of the movie interacting with her. Throughout, he randomly runs into her and her new boyfriend, who’s about as deep as a Fruit Roll Up, and instead of high tailing it out of there like any sane person would do, he instead chooses to spend as much time as possible with her. And he’s not alone, he brings along his new love interest, Rachael (Mila Kunis).

So anyone with a brain can predict what’s coming up next, as it follows the same ole same ole romantic comedy guide. If you guessed that Sarah loses her sanity, drugs and kidnaps Peter and Racheal and systematically tortures them for two weeks, all while eluding the Hawaiian police and investigators, ending with her own suicide, you thought wrong. Nope, Sarah and Peter (attempt to) do the nasty, Racheal finds out, and he loses both girls. But fortunately for Peter, Racheal eventually forgives him. Hooray? I didn’t really care at that point. Oh well, at least the Dracula musical was good.

But it’s not all about the drama, this is a comedy! We’re supposed to laugh! So do we? Sure. The comedy is a step up from being sophomoric, sparingly providing some genuine laughs. However, at some points the comedy feels like it was put into the movie without any consideration for the scene, just to keep people constantly laughing. As a result, it interrupts any plot progression it so feasibly tries to make.

Overall the movie left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. The movie tended to jump around a lot and seemed very misguided throughout. It was not a great experience, and I wasn’t impressed.

However, Kristen Bell is sexy as hell. God damn she’s gorgeous. She makes up for any misgivings this movie had.

Therefore, I give this movie a 10/10.

-(CE)Ian