Yeah, this was a
funny romantic comedy, I admit it. I really like Jason Segel and this reminded me a lot of
his other movie, Forgetting Sarah Marshall. It was kind of encouraging from a
dude’s perspective, like in Sarah Marshall, that you just have to pull things
together and do something cool, follow your dreams, and then that gives you
motivation and clarity to get the girl. Most romantic comedies these days, as we all know, follow a very formulaic plot-line. They have to, to sell tickets. It's just the details that change amongst these films. This one was the same in that regard, but I really appreciated the funny twists they put on those stock plot points like when 1) the two sisters speak about their relationship stuff but doing it in Sesame Street voices or 2) when the girlfriend (Emily Blunt) and her boss are breaking up but they do it in the pyschology department's experiment room behind a see-through mirror and their two colleagues are listening in, shocked by the drama unfolding before their eyes or 3) when the sister (Alison Brie), a little tipsy, tries not to cry during her speech at the engagement party and instead speaks in a scary deep voice. There were also a lot of funny actors here (Brian Posehn, the big bearded guy who used to work with Zach Galifianakis and Mindy Kaling, the girl from The Office, just to name a couple).
In other notes, Segel also addresses his Jewish ancestry in a funny passing way, like in Sarah Marshall and in some of his other stuff. The filming makes you want to move to the Bay area (and not to Michigan). I was happy that Segel didn’t show his penis in this film, although he seems to have no qualms about showing embarrassing sex dysfunctions.
