TRAILER: FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

Hmmm. It's got Apatow's name on the picture but this time he had nothing to do with the writing or directing of FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL. This comes from the mind of Jason Segel who wrote the movie as his debut script and decided to give himself the lead role aswell (although he is a regular actor, as seen with his prominent role on HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER) and is directed by debut director Nicholas Stoller.

The movie follows Segel as a guy who takes a vacation to Hawaii to get over his traumatic break-up with his T.V. star girlfriend, only to find that girlfriend has also gone to the Island with her new muse. Kristen Bell plays the girlfriend and Russell Brand (disastrous casting from this trailer) plays the new boyfriend. I've been quite fond of the idea for quite some time and I was hoping for another KNOCKED UP or THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN type humor with a neat and heartfelt story and the trailer does show glimses of it. Hope they press the issue of how hard a break-up can be, and really go into the depths that Apatow did with KNOCKED UP...

That's the best quality trailer on the web so far I'm afraid. The movie doesn't open till the end of May (where it goes up against SEX AND THE CITY, so this is the guy's rom-com that weekend) so we will have to wait a while until we get a better quality version. I think it looks pretty good. Despite the presence of Russell Brand and some of the jokes that fall flat on their face, I think this might be a decent little flick although there wasn't the killer jokes like that KNOCKED UP trailer had. I kinda wish Seth Rogen had been leading the flick too, but then I guess it really would have been compared to this year's classic. source - slash film