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May 1, 2008
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

Save your monies for a cheap theater or rental! I think the fact that this movie got built up so much by a lot of people is why I was disappointed. That and false advertising. I have a big problem with movies being promoted by footage that doesn't actually get shown, which was the case for several scenes (between us and the Hutchinses, we counted at least three).
Forgetting Sarah Marshall is about a guy who gets dumped. He goes to Hawaii to a resort she mentioned a few times to forget his troubles, but it turns out she's there with her new boyfriend. In between sharing his miseries with the staff around the resort, he befriends and starts dating a hostess and learns to move on.
I think the movie had very few laugh-out-loud moments, although there were some. A lot of the jokes were predictable or not very much of an impact. I also didn't care for the movie's end because the main character made a very dumb move that I think was unnecessary and kind of ruined the ending for me because I didn't find him empathetic anymore.
Overall, it was a nice little movie with several imperfections (although one bonus was that Kenneth from 30 Rock was in it), and I'll probably never watch it again.
Posted by Jeri
at 03:52:30 pm | 2008 | Leave a comment »