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Rating:  -
Allison Scott (Katherine Heigl) just got a promotion, so she and her sister go out to celebrate. She has a few too many to drink, meets Ben Stone (Seth Rogen), and has a one-night stand with him.
A few weeks later, she discovers she's pregnant. After some soul-searching and a lot of cringing, she decides she'd better tell Ben. He vows to stick with her and help raise the baby.
Ben lives with his buddies, smokes pot, and they have desultory plans to create a celebrity website, but they don't work on it much. At first, he keeps on with his life the way it is, but little by little, he starts growing up and taking responsibility.
There's a secondary plot with Allison's sister and her husband having a crisis in their marriage that serves to both encourage and warn Allison and Ben about their future.
It was a cute movie, as far as it went. I'm not sure I understand the rave reviews: 7.8 stars on the IMDB for a comedy is amazing. That's the same as The Blues Brothers and Blazing Saddles and Stranger than Fiction got, and this is nowhere in the same league as those. Different tastes, maybe, but those had more going on than just humorous situations. Maybe this one did, too, and I just didn't see it.
My favorite part of the movie was Ben's growth, and, to a lesser extent, Allison's. It was presented with humor and sympathy. The problems between Allison's sister and brother-in-law were realistic, but I couldn't sympathize with either of them, which made it less effective for me.
The premise, however, just didn't sit well with me. Because of a one-night stand, this couple is deciding on a permanent commitment to each other. It just made me squirm, and nearly turned the movie into a pro-life propaganda piece. Allison does initially turn down Ben's marriage proposal, but neither of them ever question whether they should be together permanently or not--just whether they should have the little piece of paper.
Much of that has, I admit, more to do with me than with the movie. I've been married 23+ years, and I know how much work marriage is, even when you love each other. Then, too, I have a 22-year-old daughter who's far too prone to trying to make relationships work even when she'd be better off letting go, and I couldn't help seeing her in the same situation.
Ah, well. It was an entertaining movie to watch for a date night, but I don't think I'll be watching it again.
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This movie really excels in several different ways. It's excellent at being a bad movie. It is unrivaled in its pointlessness. It has a marvelously terrible script. It has a surpassingly bad sound track. It is truly unparalleled in the actors' portrayal of immaturity. Never before have I seen such excellence in immaturity. I cannot even imagine how hard the director must have had to work to make a movie so high on the excellent side of bad.
I thought I had already seen the best of the worst movies ever made...but I was wrong. Knocked Up lives up to that description. It has just finished playing on HBO. The music is wonderfully awful. The script is almost miraculous in its inferiority. The obscene temper tantrums are by far the best I've ever seen! These characters excel in immature behavior. I could go on and on. The only question I have for the producers is why it took them so long to make this first-rate bad movie.
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I'm white and i was offended as to how white this movie is. the dialogue was terrible and had gratuitous language. Terrible writers. I almost smashed my TV when the guy said "life is like that show everybody loves Raymond except not as funny". This movie might only appeal to teenage girls that don't know any better. Unfortunately that low common denominator will swallow this crap as truth.
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Comedy about a young high-flying career woman getting pregnant after a drunken one-night stand and the consequences of this for her and the father, who just happens to be an unemployed recreational drug user whose hobbies include creating smut websites. A likeable comedy that explores many life issues and has engaging leads in the form of Katherine Heigl (who I have loved since her days in the teen sci-fi series Roswell) and Seth Rogen as the mismatched couple dealing with the unexpected pregnancy. Good stuff.
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Critics, what were you smokin'? "knocked Up," 2007's surprise blockbuster from Hollywood's new R-rated comedy king Judd Apatow, got such positive spin that I was primed for a raunchy good time. Nearly 2 1/2 hours later I, like most of the characters in this movie, needed anger management. Never have I seen a "romantic" comedy this hell bent on bucking logic as well as taste. (And never have I heard the word "F--k" used this much since "Scarface.")
The premise is simple. Think "Beauty and the Geek." A gorgeous up and coming TV personality (Gray's Anatamy's Katherine Heigl) sleeps with an unemployed loser (Seth Rogen) after a drunken night out. She gets pregnant. They play house.
Now, in the movie world this plot line would make sense under one precondition: that the loser would be such a lovable little loon that we would root for him to win the girl's heart against all odds. It would also help if the loser was played by someone with some crazed zeal like Jack Black or Adam Sandler. In the person of Seth Rogen we just get one thing- a loser. Rogen's character is such a pot-headed man/child and a foul-mouthed cry baby that we can in no way believe the beautiful Heigl would touch him with a ten foot pole. It like walking into a depressing movie version of hell where a glamorous actress settles for an uninteresting minor player instead of the charismatic leading man.
Is it funny? Sure, if your definition of funny is seeing every character going into some foul-mouthed rant as if they were caffeine addicts told that their local Starbucks was out of coffee. Even Ryan Seacrest in a cameo is in desperate need of a time out. And I'm no prude. I've often argued that profanity if used in the proper context can almost be poetry. Richard Pryor and George Carlin are trash talkin' Shakespeares. Apatow's script is just trash. Cuss words here are not icing on the cake but filler for lack of anything better to say.
In a way "Knocked Up" presents a world as seen through the eyes of a 15-year old. It's a pubescent fantasy where that unobtainable hottie is into slackers who have no ambition, smoke dope, and like Internet porn. It's a "romantic comedy" for the Howard Stern set. It's also proof positive that TV is becoming increasing smarter and better written. Remember on "Friends" when Ross and Rachel spent hour after agonizing hour in the maternity ward? Hilarious, right? No? Then this F-bombed comedy is for you.
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