en-us Copyright 2008 - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:53:56 GMT 15 By Matt Cashen and Mike Peddycord
Matt: When the movie 40 Year Old Virgin came out in the summer of 2005, it put director/producer Judd Apatow on the map. Since then he directed the movie Knocked Up and produced Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Superbad and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Most people can all probably recognize these movies because they have spawned a generation of teenagers ruining movies for me by badly quoting them. Forgetting Sarah Marshall may have the funniest quotes of them all. Mike: I love Judd Apatow movie quotes. My favorite is in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story when Edith and Dewey are talking about his dreams, and she’s like “What about my dreams?!” and Dewey responds, “A house made out of candy won’t work.” Edith says “What if it never rains?!” Now that’s funny. Matt: Forgetting Sarah Marshall is about an average Joe named Peter Bretter. Peter’s biggest accomplishment is his current relationship with the TV star Sarah Marshall. But, as the title gives away, Sarah decides that the relationship isn’t working. Peter takes this news very hard and lives the next three weeks of his life very carelessly and in a quite depressing manner. His stepbrother then suggests that he take a vacation to Hawaii, which he does, only to find that by a miraculous coincidence Sarah Marshall is staying at the same hotel with her new man. Mike: This once happened to me, minus the ex-girlfriend and the trip to Hawaii. Basically I went on vacation one time. I don’t have a stepbrother either, but the idea’s basically the same. Matt: Anyways…this movie turned out to be the funniest movie that I have seen since Walk Hard. I know this will make a lot of people out there mad, but it was funnier than Superbad. The cast of this movie is mostly “no names,” except for the return of Mila Kunis, who played Jackie in the TV series That 70’s Show. The chemistry that her and Jason Segel (Peter) have in this movie is magical and is one of the strongest points of the film. Mike: I don’t know what movie Matt was watching, but I didn’t see any chemistry. There were cocktails, but no Bunsen burners. However, Kunis and Segel did seem to have a genuine relationship on screen. I, one day, wish to have that. Matt: Bottom line, this is definitely on my top “five funniest movies of all time” list. It was full of original comedy, and, although it had kind of a gushy love story, the romanticism led to some of the funnier moments of the movie. This movie hasn’t done too well in theaters, which troubles me. This movie gets a handful of knee slaps, two broken spleens and one teary eye. Those people out there who like conventional grading systems, I give this movie an A. Mike: I don’t have a “five funniest movies” list. The last time I had a list, I got in a lot of trouble followed by years of counseling. But if I did, it would definitely be on it. For my unreasonable love of this movie, I give it a 6.1 radians out of 2p. This equates to a Mike’s List A. ]]> Tue, 13 May 2008 18:21:00 GMT