Agreed. Between me cracking up and the rest of the audience laughing, I know I missed a lot of lines too. OK by me, gives me an excuse to go back and see it again. I really enjoyed this one, and the trailer had me worried maybe I wouldnt.

That is fucking brilliant. I love the Muppets. Bring it on!

Loved this movie...I was never a fan of Mila Kunis, but damn did she ever win me over - she was excellent in this. KB looked great and Segel really put himself out there for this one. A very funny movie.

Saw it this afternoon. Really funny movie. I really liked Mila Kunis and I actually enjoyed her performance in the film much more than Kristin Bell. She was charming, funny and very attractive. I have never seen an episode of That 70's Show, but consider me a fan of hers now. I was actually quite surprised that a small, cute girl like her actually had some good on screen chemistry with a tall schlub like Segal. I thought Jason Segal was pretty good as well, but IMO showing his "Johnson" multiple times was a little overkill. But, I applaud him for having the guts to do that.

Overall, if your a fan of Judd Apatow's previous films, I think you will enjoy this film. It's a little long at about 113 minutes, but it goes by pretty fast. Anyone think we will be seeing a 130 minute Unrated Cut on DVD?

A solid B+

And so was that brief scene with Maria Thayer.

Saw it tonight, thought it was HILARIOUS. Definitely better than both Knocked Up (which I found to be overrated) and Superbad.

= J

as long as Statler and Waldorf are in it, I'm game.

I guess they could do their own version of "You know how I know you're gay.."

Ummm........no. It is my experience that one of the things these movies get right is the way people really talk, cursing and all. Maybe you run in a super conservative crowd, but it strikes me as genuine.

I think it was real but because we always just saw the photo we never really show her topless that well. Plus she was gorgeous in this film.

I caught a screening earlier this evening. Wow. Painfully realistic, but highly entertaining and hilarious.

1. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
2. Superbad
3. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
4. Knocked Up

[I wouldn't count the other Apatow films in this equation as they're a "different" type of comedy.]

For those of you curious about the Mila Kunis "topless" photo seen in the film, it's a fake. Egotastic had a blog on it about a year ago when the photo was initially leaked onto the internet.

Yeah, I figured. *Sigh* I also agree with your ratings.

I've always seen these Apatow films as "guy" humor based upon the language and the substance of the jokes. I don't see anything wrong with that, however ... for every Superbad there's a Fool's Gold or some other romantic comedy directed towards women.

I saw the film last night and I thought it was absolutely hilarious. Echoing previous posters, I know I missed a bunch of lines. My girlfriend didn't think it was a funny as I did, but she did say that it was a good cute movie.

The one thing I liked about this movie, is that it stays consistent. They didn't front-load the jokes, and then fall into romance only at the end. There were heart-felt moments and comedy throughout the movie. And I will say that the serious moments were excellently played by Kunis and Bell. Bell's scene with Segal where I was really touched by that scene.

Great movie all around.

Saw this with a big group of my friends last night.

Loved it and as Suprmallet mentioned there were too many scenes to count where I laughed so hard I missed lines.

The Dracula musical was amazing.

Definitely will be seeing this again

I really dug this one. I was hoping it wouldn't suffer from being a) a throwaway film from Apatow's canon and; b) suffer from "Apatow bloat" by being too long. Thankfully neither was the case. I thought it was a smart comedy that dealt with real people on real situations, albeit slightly exaggerated. Segel made a good lead man, and Kunis and Bell both looked smokin' hot. I never realized just how hot Kunis was until seeing her here. The supporting cast really helped elevate the film. Lots of good, funny people with quirky characters that had me rolling. I'm sure the DVD will be a longer cut since some stuff from the trailer didn't end up in the film. Overall, I was very pleased with the movie. Solid 8/10.

I was probably the only one in the theater who got the reference to K-Bell's "Pulse" during the "double date" dinner scene. Pretty cool to mix reality of K-Bell's past film flop into this film.

I thought it was making fun of One Missed Call, actually. Wasn't Pulse about ghosts that come out of the internet? I only saw the amazing Japanese original.

Movie was hilarious. Too much dick, but whatever.

But it was about wireless technology, so cell phones count, and it was still a dig at K-Bell's participation in that film (though it could also cover some other films from the J-horror genre).

"Forgetting Sarah Marshall" is the tale of boy meets girl, they date, and years down the line, girl leaves boy, boy becomes despondently sad and lonely. Peter (Jason Segel) is the boy, Sarah (Kristen Bell) is the girl. Sarah is famous because she's an actress on a TV show, and Peter scores the background music for the show. After Sarah leaves Peter, he is distraught, and does what he can to forget Sarah, but finds himself in Hawaii to get away from it all, but as fate would have it, Sarah is there vacationing with the guy she is now dating, a British rock star. Things just keep getting worse for Peter, but Rachel (played by Mila Kunis, who is empathetic to Peter's situation, and works at the resort both Peter and Sarah find themselves at) becomes someone who helps Peter get some perspective over the end of his long-term relationship with Sarah.

Peter was a real mess of a character in the beginning and I feared he'd stay too one-note in his despair, but Jason Segel's screenplay is smart enough to get Peter out of his morose malaise by the middle act of the film, and the film is full of small and big laughs brought on by rejection, and jealousy and re-discovery of love and purpose. Not only do the principle cast do a good job with the material, but the supporting cast around the resort are pretty funny when they get their chance to shine. Also Jack McBrayer (Kenneth on 30 Rock) is pretty funny when he's on-screen. I think the pacing of the film is pretty good once the story gets us to Hawaii, the first act is still a touch too long, but it's a minor quibble.

Just be warned, there might be a little too much male nudity for some, but it usually used for comic effect, or to show the vulnerability of the character.

I give it 3.5 stars, or a grade of B+.

This was quite an enjoyable comedy, I laughed a lot. It was hysterical about a good dozen times or so. I highly recommend this. Kudos to Jason Segel, he made something that could've been routine and made it something special.

What was the joke and how did they make fun of it? That's cool that she has a sense of humor about it.

Saw it this afternoon and laughed my ass off. Loved it. Oddly, it was in an almost empty theatre (!) Hope that's just a local oddity and the wekeend numbers were decent. I'd hate to think that films like '27 Dresses' and 'Prom Night' could beat something this good.

And Kristin Bell has talked about the 'Pulse'/'One Missed Call' reference in interviews. She specifically asked "are you really going to go there?" in response to the scene and got nothing but blank stares from the producers. Apparently Segel wrote it as just his concept of the worst idea for a movie he could think of and had no idea that Bell had ever starred in anything similar. Of course, it's possible they just lied to her. Maybe it'll be discussed in the commentary track when the DVD comes out.

From MTV.com:
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'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' Joke Hits Close To Home For Kristen Bell -- Watch It Here!

Co-star/writer Jason Segel insists he wasn't targeting Bell's 2006 movie 'Pulse' in the scene: 'Kristen was convinced that we were intentionally trying to make fun of her.'

By Larry Carroll

Take it from someone who recently tried bringing up Paula Abdul's "Rush, Rush" video to Keanu Reeves: No matter how ill-advised their previous projects might be, no matter how high their careers have since soared, most celebrities avoid bad-mouthing their back catalog.

On April 18, "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" will hit theaters, with Judd Apatow's comedy clan eager to follow in the footsteps of "Superbad" and "Knocked Up." But as advance screenings have built buzz for the flick, a question is on the minds of those who've glimpsed one eyebrow-raising scene: Is Kristen Bell making fun of her last movie?

In August 2006, the actress starred in "Pulse," a horror film about a demon-infested wireless signal that vanished quickly from theaters and currently stands at a lowly 12 percent approval rating on RottenTomatoes.com. In "Marshall," Bell plays a TV actress whose boyfriend teases her about having starred in a movie "with a ridiculous premise: What would happen if your mobile phone killed you?" Meanwhile, her ex jokes, "Why couldn't you just take the battery out of the phone?"

Now, Bell and her gang have shared the scene with MTV News — and they also filled us in on the stranger-than-fiction truth behind it.

"Oh my gosh, I'll give you the exclusive on this," Bell laughed recently, knowing that fans on the MTV Movies Blog have already begun asking the "Pulse" question. "It's too funny."

"She had an interesting reaction when she saw that in the script," said "Marshall" co-star Jason Segel, who wrote the movie with director Nick Stoller. "Kristen was convinced that we were intentionally trying to make fun of her."

"We had no idea that she had done a movie that had the premise of a killer cell phone," Stoller agreed. "We just thought it was a funny idea that seemed in line with all these Japanese horror remakes. And so it came out totally randomly."

Sure enough, "Pulse" was a remake of the 2001 Japanese film "Kairo."

"I hate to say it, but we were trying to think of the dumbest concept for a movie," Segel chuckled. "And that's what we stumbled upon."

Since Apatow's comedies are largely improvised, Bell wasn't aware of the intended joke until just moments before the cameras began rolling; immediately, she suspected foul play. "I just looked at Nick and Jason and rolled my eyes, and they were like, 'What? Isn't that funny?' " Bell remembered. "And I was like, 'You guys, I just don't want anyone to be offended. I don't want to make fun of something that's real.' And they were like, 'What are you talking about?' "

Stoller backed up Bell's story. "She was like, 'Really? Are you gonna go there?' Kristen was like, 'I hope the producer doesn't kill me for this.' "

"Neither of them have seen 'Pulse,' " the actress insisted. "And I know this, because I bugged them about it for a week. I was like, 'You guys, I don't want to offend anyone.' I was grateful for that break. I loved it. It wasn't the best horror movie of all time, but it wasn't the worst horror movie of all time."

Suddenly, Bell sounded again like Sarah Marshall, who defends her film by saying: "It's not for everyone ... it's a metaphor for addiction to technology."

To which her boyfriend (Russell Brand) responds: "It's a metaphor for a crap movie!"

"Part of what's great about working on these Judd movies is that we all bring a bit of ourselves to our characters," observed Segel, pointing out that Bell's character also expresses career concerns after her TV show is canceled (um, "Veronica Mars"?). "Kristen had an amazing tightrope to walk, and she did it. ... That's part of why the movie works."

"If they were really making fun of 'Pulse,' I would have said, 'This is too close to home,' but I was so enamored with the simple fact that they had come up with it on their own," Bell marveled. "It's so weird."

Fair enough. I also thought it was hilarious that Bell and Kunis were fighting over a schlub like Peter (the cake feeding bit at the dinner). Hilarious.