< Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Forgetting Sarah Marshall/YMMV
- Alternative Character Interpretation: As the movie develops, it allows room for some human shades of both Aldous Snow and Sarah, who were initially seen as antagonists from Peter's perspective. Not very many break-up movies let the 'bitchy ex-grifriend' to also be seen as The Woobie, or the other guy to also be a Nice Guy.
- Ear Worm: "Inside of you..."
- Fan Disservice: This movie has way, way too much male nudity - although it may be a Fan Service to female viewers.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: The cell phone horror movie Sarah stars in sounds ridiculous... until you realize that an American remake of a Japanese horror movie with a very similar premise came out earlier in the same year that this movie came out.
- Among a few other references, Jason Segel drunkenly sings the The Muppets theme.
- Role Association: Marshall Eriksen gets dumped by Veronica Mars and eventually ends up with Jackie Burkhart.
- The Woobie: Sarah has bits of this. She had her show cancelled- while on vacation(!) and it's clear to even her that she has no future in film. She finds out that she's dating the wrong kind of guy, which leads to getting jealous of Peter which leads to getting chewed out by both Aldious AND Peter, ect. Depending on how you see her, this could be seen as karmic justice, or that she makes really bad choices (which, considering her career choices...).
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