Sarah Marshall loves you, too
For the two months or so, I plan to wake up every morning and think how glad I am that my name isn’t Sarah Marshall. Have you seen the ads? I’m not talking commercials; these are print ads, and they’re everywhere: “I’m SO over you Sarah Marshall,” “My mom always hated you Sarah Marshall,” “You DO look fat in those jeans Sarah Marshall,” etc. (they’re also badly punctuated, but that’s another post for another day). This must be a weird kind of faux-nightmare for the real Sarah Marshalls of the world, waking up one day to find ads maligning them all over town. How would you feel? “Cinema Hype sucks!” on the side of every building? Eerie, I’m telling you.
So that you don’t fall for the admittedly clever marketing campaign and devote too many brain cells to Sarah Marshall in the month before her April 18th theatrical debut, here’s the deal: Sarah Marshall is the starring-ish role, played by Kristen Bell, in the upcoming romantic(?) comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall (surprise!). This is one of those movies that, in ten years, will either be a two-star blurb in the back of TV Guide OR the defining youth-culture movie of 2008. The plot? A guy who’s been dumped runs off to a tropical resort to lick his wounds, only to find that his ex and her new boyfriend are staying at the same resort (presumably for different reasons, and yes, I am leaving that “lick” joke right where it is). Which, hasn’t Ben Stiller already made that movie? Or am I making that up? But it’s hard to count this cast out: Bell, who nobody doesn’t like, much like Sara Lee; How I Met Your Mother’s Jason Segel, who also wrote the screenplay, for better or for worse; Jonah Hill; and Paul Rudd, who makes everything better. It’s like an epic battle of Mediocre Movie Idea vs. Awesome Cast. Who wins? Just check your TV Guide.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Kristen Bell, Jason Segel, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, How I Met Your Mother, TV Guide, Ben Stiller, Sara Lee
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