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Rating:  -
I have to agree with the "Just Plain Crude" review. If you took out all the profanity, 95% of the dialogue would disappear. The sex scenes made it embarrassing to watch, even though it was just my husband and I viewing it. We're in our early 40's and are probably too old for this movie but we wonder if this is the way most 20 somethings communicate today. It was quite offensive, to say the least.
That being said, there were some moments when I admired Ben and Alison's attempts at working out their relationship, highly improbable though that was, and accepting responsibility for the new life they created in drunken stupidity. The scene where Ben talks to the obnoxious stand-in obstetrician on Alison's behalf, is almost touching. But when he reams out her regular doctor on the phone, his whole tirade can be bleeped out. This movie has an Adam Sandler quality about it. Just when a serious moment arises, it's blown out of the water by something weird, obscene or vulgar.
Had it not been for the overall crude nature of this movie, the basic story of a young couple dealing with a life changing event may have worked. But "Knocked Up" handles it badly. I wish I hadn't wasted my time watching it.
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Maybe I'm just old - and I certainly don't consider myself a prude - but I cannot believe the vulgarity in the dialogue in this movie, especially in mixed company. All us guys talk "locker room" when by ourselves...but crude references to oral (and other kinds) of sex in front of women? If this is really the way younger people talk nowadays, our society is headed for extinction. I watched this movie strictly because of Katherine Heigl whom I think is adorable and whose looks remind me of the pretty girls from the 50's and 60's. It was disappointing to hear her use such vulgarity. I know she's a professional actress and it's her job to read the script. Hopefully she will get much better films than this to work in as she's very appealing on screen and a decent actress. The story itself is good, but hardly believeable. Nowadays, few women that attractive would hook up with such a geeky-looking guy like that for one night, much less fall in love with him and bear his child.
Rating:  -
"If you want to hate on Judd Apatow's Knocked Up -- and the anti-crowd-pleaser contingent will surely ding it -- then get ready to be drowned out by the sound of laughter from the rest of us. I'll admit there's something sitcom-trite about the setup. Idiot-boy Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) knocks up gorgeous Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl) on a drunken first date and forges a truce with his lifelong enemy: maturity." Peter Travers
I was so prepared to hate this film. The antithesis of the romantic comedy, what do you call this type of film, anyway? My best friend recommended the film, and dang if he wasn't right. I grew to really care about the characters. Seth Rogen, the bumbling, inept, immature guy who meets and beds the beautiful Katherine Heigl. How does this occur? A drunken night out, the sudden boy meets girl. And the resulting pregnancy. These two characters are human and convey their emotions so well that the obscenity laden mouth of Rogen converts to a caring, soft spoken man who worries about the mom to be.
Leslie Mann plays Heigl's sister and accomplishes the impossible- a shrew of a woman, married to Paul Rudd, and we wonder why are these people together. After viewing this marriage, we wonder, 'is this all there is'?
The hi-jinks and low jinks played by Rogen's three roommates soften the harshness of married life and true yucks are forthcoming.
The pregnancy proceeds, the father-to-be offers marriage mother-to-be says no and what is next? The ambiguity of the ending is what we come to expect. The in-between scenes are fresh and humorous and slightly endearing.
"Finally, Knocked Up may be the sharpest, most up-to-date commentary on current pop culture not involving Jon Stewart or Comedy Central. The riffs tumble free and loose (''Matthew Fox -- you know what's interesting about him? Absolutely nothing!''), and the references are elegantly tossed off, even in the presence of a gynecologist pointing out fetal features on a sonogram. (Says a queasy Ben, ''I'm breathing like James Gandolfini here!'') I'm breathing hard, too, because this comedy is such a blast of fresh air." Lisa Schwarzbaum
A film that has it all, the truth in advertising about pregnancy testing, body image, and the whole Mars-versus-Venus thing.
Highly Recommended. prisrob 06-22-08
Love Comes Softly
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
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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