Knocked Up

Knocked Up

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Knocked Up is a comedy about pregnancy, love, and marriage, that has far more intelligence and emotional depth to it than somewhat its flippant title would suggest. Ben (Rogen) is a layabout bum who lives with his stoner friends, "working" on a celebrity * movie website. Alison (Heigl) has just been promoted at E!, and when she heads out to celebrate, their worlds collide with disastrous and of course hilarious consequences. The comedy is clever and insightful, loaded with little self-referential moments and pop culture references (the Munich one is particularly awesome), and while it occasionally veers toward the puerile, the movie's subject matter ensures that the humour remains considered and intelligent for the most part. The performances are outstanding, but not just in terms of comic timing. Rogen appears built for this sort of balanced role as he realises that he has to grow up to meet the challenges of relationships and parenthood, and Heigl is just as effective as she learns to accommodate Ben's lifestyle and releases her grip on her career. The support from Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann is also brilliant. While their conflict-ridden marriage doesn't make them the greatest of role models for Ben and Alison, it certainly provides lots of laughs, and the clashes between Mann's overly paranoid Debbie and Rudd's laid-back Pete provide an interesting projection of how Ben & Alison's relationship could turn out. The Rudd & Rogen moments make for some of the movie's better lines, but their humour is finely balanced with that emotional depth that I mentioned before, making the characters far more than punchline machines, which benefits the movie immeasurably. The awkward intimacy of Ben & Alison's almost-forced relationship also provides touching and comic moments, as Apatow examines what happens "when life doesn't care about your plan". Even the serious, emotional scenes are laced with a sort of ironic, bittersweet humour, which again gives the characters a sense of realism but also makes the movie that bit more comfortable and reassuring. A subject that could have been treated with a crass touch, Apatow remains in tune with his previous effort, The 40 Year Old Virgin, and chooses to focus on the impact the pregnancy has on the lives of the characters, allowing their actions and interactions to create the comedy as they come to terms with their new situation. His light touch makes Knocked Up touching, insightful, and very, very, funny.

As I lived part of my life in the US, both coasts. I was able to read between the lines of the dubbed-into-Italian breakthrough Judd Apatow comedy and laugh. Most people dismissed it at the movie theater in Rome where I saw it. Thought it was vulgar and old hat. Vulgar? The Italians of the Massimo Boldi comedies thought it was vulgar?! "Knocked Up", besides making me laugh out loud and amusing me no end taught me a really important cultural lesson. We, in Italy, ride a very high (non existent) horse. I think the time has come for us to get off the horse and start looking at ourselves for what we really are - like we used to in Dino Risi, Pietro Germi and Mario Monicelli's films. "Knocked Up" is ultra sophisticated and yet, it reached a vast audience in the States because the sophistication is so amazingly smart. Seth Rogen is a real find. His eyes when he realizes Katherinre Heigl is going to stay with him that first and fatal night made me fall in love with his unlikely character. Katherine Heigl is another incredible discovery. Superb and stunning and classy to boot. Now, all this praise and I haven't even seen it in its original English version. I can't wait.

This movie is awesome for a mature audience. Katherine plays a newly promoted E! Reporter Alison Scott who after celebrating out with her sister meets and hook up with a random guy, Ben Stone (Seth) she met at a club. After a few weeks Alison realizes that she is pregnant and shares the wonderful news with Ben. Ben is portrayed as a total loser. An Unemployed,pot-head who watches movies with his friends for an internet website they are putting together. Together they decide to keep the baby and give the whole thing a try. Little do they both know what they are getting into. The movie remains constantly funny and you can sympathize with their horrible situation. Everyone is funny here even the the OBGYN. The movie successfully captures the comedy behind the situation and keeps you interested until the end. Only flaw? Portrayal of one-stands, making it seem it's not that bad and things eventually work out at the end...but all in all it's a great movie. Some language and scenes may not be appropriate for early teens to children.

A girl being "knocked up" in the past was as bad as a girl not having a cell phone today. The big A was not an acceptable remedy, and social rejection was pretty much routine. The new film Knocked Up shows how far we have come. The tension surrounding a non-condom night of drinking is less a social disaster than a question of how the two principals can mature enough to deserve the gift. Director Judd Apatow carries his talent from 40 Year Old Virgin into this light and endearing comedy. Both Seth Rogen (a buddy in Virgin) as Ben Stone and Katherine Heigl (The Ringer and Grey's Anatomy) as Alison Scot have perfect comic timing while the dialogue has an old screwball comedy pace, rapid and bright, affectionate and tough. Apatow nicely plays off the slacker Seth (Rogen may be better than Jon Heder's Napoleon) against Alison, a compulsive E! Entertainment reporter. When Stone first sees Alison naked, he blurts out, "You're prettier than I am," an obvious truth that brings sympathy for the underachieving, slightly pudgy protagonist. Jokes and insight are hard to put together—Apatow does it here. Whether or not these two victims of the demon alcohol will find love is for you to find out. However, you can be sure along the way to laugh at such naughty riffs as Seth's worry during lovemaking about his * hitting the baby or the scenes where he and his stoner buddies concoct a for-profit website to show the specific occurrences of stars' nudity in films. You may not laugh at the graphic birth scenes, but you will be drawn closer to the lovers because of them. Although the film is long at 132 min., it may turn out to be the best comedy of the summer.