Forgetting Sara Marshall

I can’t say enough about how good this is. The laugh-per-minute ratio is about the highest I’ve experienced since, well, The 40-Year-Old Virgin. But it’s not crude. It’s dirty, but the jokes are all contextual, and they’re spawned directly from the hapless hero’s painful situations. The pain is excruciatingly real, and you can tell the writer/star Jason Segel mined his own personal experiences; sacrificing himself for the relief of others. It’s an incredibly heartfelt and accurate account of the poor guy who has to hold the pretty girl’s purse while she goes out and lives. There’s no better example of this than the gut-wrenching comparison between the old girlfriend Kristen Bell’s bitchy reaction to the hero’s labor-of-love musical number, and the supportive applause of the newfound dreamgirl Mila Kunis. It’s a new benchmark of honesty and humiliation.