Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Russell Brand, Bill Hader) — Judd Apitow is arguably today’s most successful movie producer (Superbad, Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Drillbit Taylor, Walk Hard, Talladega Nights, Anchorman, among others). His films have helped define the 21st century genre of grunge comedies. He has hits and misses, in my opinion, but he is gold at the box office. For example, I really disliked Knocked Up while liking Virgin, and really liking Anchorman. He tends to use a lot of the same actors (as does David Mamet and Ben Stiller, with whom he did a lot of work early in his career). What you know about Apitow’s movies is that they will be shallow, bawdy, on the edge of good taste, guilty-pleasure funny, and politically incorrect. Teenagers and other young adults love these movies because the language is dirty and body parts are displayed, never more than in this movie, which features unnecessary male frontal nudity. Now I’m no prude, and the initial premise for it is kind of funny. But after that, it’s just pure voyeurism. That said, this film is much better that Knocked Up. Jason Segel stars as Peter Bretter, musician who provides the background “tones” for a crime series starring his girlfriend, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell), and Billy Baldwin (in a nice cameo). But Sarah ends the five-year relationship in the scene where Peter emerges from the shower and is so devastated, he drops his towel and never picks it up. OK: Sarah, who has actually been having an affair with hard rocker Aldous Snow (Russell Brand), goes off to Hawaii with Snow. Bretter, heart-broken, inconsolable, and downright obnoxiously despondent, decides to get away and picks, SURPRISE!, Hawaii, unaware that Sarah went there. Of course, they end up in same resort; then, the merry mix-ups occur. I’ll hurry now. The receptionist at the hotel, Rachel Jansen (Kunis), is a free-spirited bombshell with whom Bretter spends time; the rocker turns out to be more grounded than the others; an aging surfer dude (Apitow favorite Paul Rudd) does his drugged-out thing; and a young married couple (including Apitow regular Bill Hader) struggles with their first sexual experience. Yep, it’s an Apitow movie. And if you like all or most of the others, you will like this.