After a devastating break-up with his girlfriend, TV sitcom star Sarah Marshall, a heartbroken and depressed Peter heads to Hawaii for a little vacation to try his best to forget every detail of his relationship. But love laughs at Peter, because Sarah is vacationing in the same exclusive resort as Peter, along with her new boyfriend.

I know I am not the only one who is quickly becoming tired of the whole Judd Apatow is a comedic genius trend. Sure his movies are funny, they are entertaining and they worth seeing but they are also starting to get a little stale as well. The stories change a little and we are introduced to new characters but the overall feel of his movies are the same, most of the jokes are the same and the characters are very eerily parallel to each other. The idea is to take a very crude and over the top comedy and inject it with a little heart. Through many pratfalls and gross out moments the guy gets the girl in the end and everyone lives happily ever after. The story may have numerous twists and turns in between but that is the general idea of his movies and I would like to see him write something a little different, something unique and different like his movies used to feel before there was ten of them all very similar to each other,

I have to admit that I would rather see a familiar Judd Apatow movie than the one of the fifty American Pie or National Lampoon movies that seem to be out there. His movies still do have really good writing, interesting characters and very funny if crude moments. They show heart and have a basis in realism that most movies are missing now days. Judd doesn't pull any punches when it comes to his comedy and the breakup scene at the beginning of the film is very real if also very cringe worthy. But like life everything doesn't work out like we would like it to and the chance of being completely nude while someone breaks up with you is always a possibility. As well as trying to move on by having as many meaningless one-night stands as possible. That is one of the things that do make his movies a cut above other comedies out there is there is a perfect balance between the obscene and reality.

The problem with his movies can be boiled down to media fatigue more than anything else as anytime anything is every successful they ride the trend until they have beaten it into the ground. Everything seems to carry the words from the producers of Superbad lately. And I am a firm believer that your mood going into a movie can make or break the movie for you and media fatigue can play a big part in that mood not mention feeling like you have already seen a good portion of the movie beforehand. One of my other big concerns about comedies is its trailers. Too often do trailers show the best and funniest parts of the movie and it makes the movie that much more funny when you see it on the big screen. They should keep the best parts for the movie and not the endless trailers one is likely to see.

I loved Jason Segel in the film as while he is not a newcomer to the Apatow gang (he was in Freaks and Geeks) he is a newcomer to his films. He has that down home charm that Judd seems to like. He is not your pretty boy actor that you cannot relate too but rather like your drinking buddy that you can sympathize with. He is your average every day kind of Joe and that is what makes the movie work so well. If anything came close to ruining the movie it was Jonah Hill as his over the top fan/waiter becomes very quickly tiresome. But overall the movie was funny, just not as funny as last year’s comedic gold in Knocked Up and Superbad but still worth seeing.

Grade: C+