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Another Spy Weighs In On FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL!
Hey, everyone. ”Moriarty” here.
I talked to someone I trust, someone who would be in a position to know, and they were a little taken aback by their look at a very early cut of FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL. Not in a good way. But I know that the Apatow crew believes in testing the shit out of their films and really working on them, pounding them into shape using that process.
I’ve still got so much more coverage of this one for you between now and release. But for now, check out this review from a guy who has his own movie blog up and running.
Last Tuesday night I was lucky enough to catch a very early sneak preview of the upcoming film Forgetting Sarah Marshall. And by very early, I mean it's not coming out until next May. Which means it could be a fairly different movie by the time it comes out, but since I say Knocked Up about this long before the movie released, and with the exception of a few small snippets of dialogue it was the same film.
I've been excited about seeing this film for some time because not only am I a fan of Kristen Bell, but it was produced by Judd Apatow, the creator of both Knocked Up and The Forty Year-Old Virgin, two of the funniest movies of the last few years. While both are full of raunch they are also full of heart, so I was anticipating another film that fits in that category.
But possibly the most exciting part of the movie is that it was written by and stars Jason Segel, who has been in two of the most loved series in the CineManiac household, Freaks & Geeks and How I Met Your Mother. So it was with this anticipation that I went into the movie last night.
Jason Segel plays Peter Bretter, a struggling musician who creates the music on the hit TV Show, Crime Scene: Scene of the Crime. Peter's girlfriend the titular Sarah Marshall is the shows star, and her star is rising because of it. The movie starts with "The Break-up Scene" as Sarah dumps Peter, telling him there's another guy. The scene plays out in a way that I don't think has been attempted before, so I don't want to ruin it, I'll just say it's funny. Devastated Peter tries to go on with his life, but quickly spirals into a depression he can't get out of. So on the insistence of his Step-Brother, Brian (Bill Hader) Peter decides to take a trip to get away from it all.
Peter winds up at an amazing resort in Hawaii, only to discover that his Ex, Sarah, is there with her new boyfriend/other guy, Brit Rocker Aldous Snow (Russell Brand). It quickly becomes clear that getting over Sarah is going to be much harder than he thought. As both decide to stay at the resort, they keep running into each other, At dinner Peter, seated alone, is given "the best table in the house" because it's facing Aldous and Sarah, the next morning non-flexible Peter runs into the duo at a Yoga class, where he tries to keep up, and being an island they can't get away from each other.
Luckily for Peter, he meets a girl, Rachel, the resort's Customer Service lady played wonderfully by That 70s Show's Mila Kunis. What starts as a simple flirtation quickly (very quickly) turns into a relationship over Peter's 4 days at the Resort. While somewhat fast based, the relationship does seem fairly realistic.
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the fantastic supporting cast. Jonah Hill plays a resort employee whose clearly obsessed with Aldous Snow, to the extent of baking him a cake. Paul Rudd is fantastic, as always, as the local Surfing Instructor with an awful memory. SNL's Kristen Wiig steals the show in her small scene as a Yoga instructor, who fawns over Aldous and Sarah and gives Peter a hard time.
But possibly the best of the supporting cast is 30 Rock's Jack McBrayer as one half of a Mormon newlywed couple, who's having trouble in the bedroom. McBrayer's scenes are hilarious and he constantly made me laugh.
If there was any disclaimers about the movie it's the amount of sex. There are several sex scenes, each of which are played for laughs, which could turn some people off. The scenes are done in a way that there's no actual nudity, but instead implied nudity.
The cut we saw, while having some raunchy material, is definitely the cleanest of the Apatow movies so far. The other difference is that this film does not throw out a joke a second. This doesn't mean it's not funny, to the contrary I laughed as much in these as I did at Super Bad or Knocked Up. It's just a different beast altogether, and I don't think it should be compared to those, although I'm sure it will be.
Call me The CineManiac
I've been excited about seeing this film for some time because not only am I a fan of Kristen Bell, but it was produced by Judd Apatow, the creator of both Knocked Up and The Forty Year-Old Virgin, two of the funniest movies of the last few years. While both are full of raunch they are also full of heart, so I was anticipating another film that fits in that category.
But possibly the most exciting part of the movie is that it was written by and stars Jason Segel, who has been in two of the most loved series in the CineManiac household, Freaks & Geeks and How I Met Your Mother. So it was with this anticipation that I went into the movie last night.
Jason Segel plays Peter Bretter, a struggling musician who creates the music on the hit TV Show, Crime Scene: Scene of the Crime. Peter's girlfriend the titular Sarah Marshall is the shows star, and her star is rising because of it. The movie starts with "The Break-up Scene" as Sarah dumps Peter, telling him there's another guy. The scene plays out in a way that I don't think has been attempted before, so I don't want to ruin it, I'll just say it's funny. Devastated Peter tries to go on with his life, but quickly spirals into a depression he can't get out of. So on the insistence of his Step-Brother, Brian (Bill Hader) Peter decides to take a trip to get away from it all.
Peter winds up at an amazing resort in Hawaii, only to discover that his Ex, Sarah, is there with her new boyfriend/other guy, Brit Rocker Aldous Snow (Russell Brand). It quickly becomes clear that getting over Sarah is going to be much harder than he thought. As both decide to stay at the resort, they keep running into each other, At dinner Peter, seated alone, is given "the best table in the house" because it's facing Aldous and Sarah, the next morning non-flexible Peter runs into the duo at a Yoga class, where he tries to keep up, and being an island they can't get away from each other.
Luckily for Peter, he meets a girl, Rachel, the resort's Customer Service lady played wonderfully by That 70s Show's Mila Kunis. What starts as a simple flirtation quickly (very quickly) turns into a relationship over Peter's 4 days at the Resort. While somewhat fast based, the relationship does seem fairly realistic.
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the fantastic supporting cast. Jonah Hill plays a resort employee whose clearly obsessed with Aldous Snow, to the extent of baking him a cake. Paul Rudd is fantastic, as always, as the local Surfing Instructor with an awful memory. SNL's Kristen Wiig steals the show in her small scene as a Yoga instructor, who fawns over Aldous and Sarah and gives Peter a hard time.
But possibly the best of the supporting cast is 30 Rock's Jack McBrayer as one half of a Mormon newlywed couple, who's having trouble in the bedroom. McBrayer's scenes are hilarious and he constantly made me laugh.
If there was any disclaimers about the movie it's the amount of sex. There are several sex scenes, each of which are played for laughs, which could turn some people off. The scenes are done in a way that there's no actual nudity, but instead implied nudity.
The cut we saw, while having some raunchy material, is definitely the cleanest of the Apatow movies so far. The other difference is that this film does not throw out a joke a second. This doesn't mean it's not funny, to the contrary I laughed as much in these as I did at Super Bad or Knocked Up. It's just a different beast altogether, and I don't think it should be compared to those, although I'm sure it will be.
Call me The CineManiac
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...why were all of them so bad? I mean, "Knocked Up" was nothing but an overlong compilation of old sitcom jokes. Haven't seen "Superbad" yet, but only because it won't be on TV here in Germany until 2010.
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Knocked Up just ripped off sitcoms...what? Sorry, but the movie was damn good and Superbad was even better. Plus the cast for this movie sounds fantastic.
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personally i find his radio show hilarious, so is his performance any good?
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Can't wait!
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That's like a great lost joke from National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon starring Emilio Estevez! BTW, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that nothing about that cast apart from Paul Rudd causes me to give anything more than one-tenth of a shit. Now why doesn't Apatow go back to his roots and get a Larry Sanders movie in production?
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but instead implied nudity. For me all clothes are implied nudity.
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Since you've only seen Knocked Up, it's kind of hard to make statements like, "why are all of them so bad?" Knocked Up's premise was a little sitcomy...so what? It was hilarious.
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...is fucking hilarious - at least on his BBC radio show - highly recommend the podcasts. Of course he may suck as an actor....
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Annoying as hell, in my opinion. I'm not familiar with his radio show, so I can't comment on that, but whenever I see that guy on tv I wanna throw feces at the screen. Not that I ever have, mind.
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It was like a horror movie in slow motion. For a man anyway. Im glad he did right by the woman he "knocked up" but....
whats the big decision there? You fuck a girl 10 times out of your league and there is a dilemma? I think not. -
I will see anything she does. I even watched that flaming piece of shit "50 Pills". Yeah, I'm the one who saw it.
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Get out of Tibet!!!
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but seriously.....his radio show is hilarious.
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I really didn't give shit as to what happened to any of those characters in that movie? 40 year virgin actually had a sympathic character (Steve), Knocked up just had a bunch of retarded stoners and that irritating girl from Grey's. The only person that was remotely sympathic was the asshole dad (Egon) who had way too small of a part. And I never saw Superbad because Johan Hill is the least funny one of the gang, I wanted to see it. But my experience with Knocked Up said rent it go see Halloween! ONNN looking back at that I may have been wrong. But Zombie has been awesome for forever, and it was sad to see that the second half of Halloween is where the movie failed. But for now I guess I'll have to hear how everyone on this staff would like to have sex with this movie and how awesomely funny these people are! I wanna see Aptow and Brad Bird do a fucking Critic movie! Lets just see HOW amazing these guys are and see if they can re make TV gold on the big screen. I mean we know Lovitz will do it, besides beating Andy Dicks ass what else is he up to? Plus Paul Rudd is getting by too easily on not trying, how come no one else on the Anchorman cast gets that much love. Because lets face it Paul Rudd was pretty much dead before he got a spot in that movie.
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Don't get me wrong, I like the guy, but doesn't he always seem to play the same character? I'd like to see what else he can do. If anything.
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Is an oxymoron. Like American health care system.
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Isn't it about time Apatow & Co. wrote/produced a movie specifically for Paul Rudd? Carrell got Virgin, Rogen got Knocked Up, Cera/Hill got Superbad, and now he's producing Segel's movie. Goddamnit man, reward the most talented actor in thy posse! Give Paul Rudd a movie! He's so close to becoming A-list I can taste it.
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is much better on the radio and live than in his TV stuff. I'm not sure why, but when a camera is on him he seems to become an egotistical, self-aggrandizing and overly flamboyant cunt.
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...fucking suck.
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Can't wait for this... next year is gonna be so Apatow-ish with THE PINEAPPLE EXPRESS, that owen Wilson movie and this one. Maybe Peter Jackson should make another one called JUDD APATOW SAVES HOLLYWOOD.
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Russell Brand does a great job being a complete douche. Sounds like he was just playing himself.
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I am totally, 110% with you on that. Finding Nemo, Becoming Jane, Kissing Jessica Stein, all of that crap. It is really a huge pet peeve of mine and makes me want to punch a clown. I even got pissed off when I first heard the title of this movie until I found out what it was and who was making it.
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