Year Of The Vampire: Forgetting Sarah Marshall Sinks Its Teeth Into A Sucky Relationship – /Film

Directed by Nicholas Stoller and written by "How I Met Your Mother" star Jason Segel, "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" follows television music composer Peter Bretter as he tries to pick up the pieces of his life after his five-year relationship with his TV star girlfriend abruptly ends. Peter, who is also played by Segel, decides to go on vacation to Hawaii to try to move on with his life, but as soon as he checks into his hotel, he finds his ex already there with her new boyfriend.

Over the course of the movie, we learn that Peter has been working on a musical about Dracula featuring puppets. When he shares one of the songs with his ex, the titular Sarah Marshall (played by "Frozen" star Kristen Bell), she's not totally unsupportive, but she simply doesn't understand his work. In contrast, when he asks hotel concierge Rachel Jansen (played by Mila Kunis of "That 70s Show" fame) on a date and tells her about it, she embraces his passion and pushes Peter out of his comfort zone to perform a song from the musical in public. The result is a hilarious musical number that gets an epic callback in the finale of the movie. When Peter returns to the mainland after messing things up with Rachel, he ends up finishing and ultimately performing the musical with amazing results.

For me, "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" ranks among the best romantic comedies of the 2000s. It might even be an all-time favorite. Putting a cherry on top of the film is the fact that Segel, a life-long Muppets fan that got to work with Jim Henson's Creature Shop to bring the puppets to life in the "Les Miserables"-esque finale of this movie, was actually working on a Dracula puppet musical in real life for nearly a decade before incorporating it into this script.

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