The good thing about being Judd Apatow right now is that you can get starring vehicles for practically your entire stock company. The bad news is that, in the words of one Willie T. Sokes, they can't all be winners, kid. Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the first starring vehicle for Apatow pal Jason Segel, looks to be in the lower tier of Apatow-produced movies. But what's strange about the trailer is that, casting aside (hey, there's Jonah Hill! And there's Paul Rudd! And look, it's Bill Hader!) very little of the Apatow touch comes through. The film was directed by longtime Apatow writer (sensing a trend here?) Nicholas Stoller, but the trailer makes the movie feel like it could've been made by any nameless director with a yen for 80s-style slobs vs. snobs comedy. The presence of Kenny Loggins' "I'm Alright" (aka "Theme from Caddyshack") seals the deal. All the same, I'm kind of pulling for this movie to do well at the box office. After all, the better it does, the sooner we get a Martin Starr movie, which I think we can all agree would be a very good thing.
