Forgetting Sarah Marshall

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Critics' Reviews

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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
There's a wit in Segel's writing that marks him as every bit Apatow's equal in this arena.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
A raucous ride through one man's pain.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Nakedness has rarely looked so...naked. And innately, universally comic.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
Like "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up," Sarah Marshall has all the ingredients of the Apatow brand. Alas, it's beginning to feel generic.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Predictable but still keeps you laughing along the way.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
The cringingly wacky scenarios, offbeat characters and comic dialogue serve up a crowd-pleasing, laugh-filled experience.Read Full Review »
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Slate: Dana Stevens
Like its hero, Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a little soft around the middle, but all the more loveable for that.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Schickel
This is a fairly low-keyed comedy, but a grown-up dropping in on it can appreciate its lack of frenzy, its fundamental good nature, as easily as its core audience will. It isn’t exactly a gem, but as zircons go, it’ll do.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
If Forgetting Sarah Marshall doesn't reach the inspired heights of "Knocked Up" or "Superbad," it runs a very respectable second.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Robert Wilonsky
Without Segel bravely channeling "his own anxieties and obsessions into his clowning," as Pauline Kael wrote about Woody Allen 24 years ago, Forgetting Sarah Marshall would have been easily forgettable and, one might even say, limp.Read Full Review »
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