Depressed, Peter decides to stop moping about, listening to "Nothing Compares to U," and take a little vacation at a Hawaii resort for a necessary escape, and also to complete his great opus: a dark, Gothic "Dracula" rock opera with vampire puppets. Unfortunately, he finds Sarah and her new rock star boyfriend (British comic Russell Brand in a breakout performance, though he may not have been acting) at the same resort. The resulting love triangle finds Peter torn between his desire to win Sarah back or accepting the advances of the woman who puts him back together: Rachel Jansen (Mila Kunis), a receptionist at the Hawaii hotel who sympathizes with Peter's situation and offers a supportive hand. In the interim, he has numerous amusing interactions with his goofy step-brother (Bill Hader), a stoner surf instructor (Rudd) and a wannabe rockstar waiter (Hill).

And that’s about it. From its genitally-obsessed dialogue to its tender heart, Forgetting Sarah Marshall could be pegged as yet another Apatow tale of stunted adolescence, but it is absurdly overlong and not everything works; Apatow regular Jonah Hill, for one, is irritating as an adoring Aldous Snow fan. Also, the ongoing jokes were oddly episodic. But, there's a never-a-dull-moment pace to these sexy, raunchy – and occasionally utterly pathetic - sexcapades that just keeps the surprises coming.