Movie Review: Knocked Up
June 2nd, 2007 by timbotronMen of all ages would love to get Katherine Heigl accidentally pregnant.
This week’s new film “Knocked Up” offers great performances by Katherine Heigl (a.k.a. - Drew Barrymore 2.0) and Seth Rogen (”the puffy 20-something everyman“), but supporting actors Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd are truly the highlight of the show. Though this movie is littered with hilarious dialogue and entertaining characters, the plot itself is fairly underwhelming. “Knocked Up” does not have the same impact as writer/director Judd Apatow’s previous work “The 40 Year Old Virgin.”
On a “40 Year Old Virgin” scale, I have to give this film only 30 out of 40 Year Old Virgins.
Good Points:
•Continuous facial hair and stoner jokes
•Katherine Heigl
•Pregnancy jokes
•Leslie Mann was funny as hell
Bad Points:
•We never get to see Katherine Heigl naked, but we do get to see the unsettling opposite of a “Sharon Stone” shot - Katherine Heigl’s “Heigl” with a baby is coming out of it. Yup. Baby head. Crotch. It wasn’t magical.
•Though the plot isn’t necessarily cliché, it’s not that engaging either. The movie’s peripheral topics (such as “what it means to be a spouse”) are far more interesting than the title premise.
Warning: DO NOT do a Google search for “Knocked Up” with the “family filter” turned off. Dear God.
June 2nd, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Oh man, I was going to do a review of this movie but you beat me to it so I’ll have to do one on my own blog. Saw it with hubby and was amazed at how much of it rang true. But it could have been cut by about 15-20 minutes. Loved it, though.
June 3rd, 2007 at 5:03 pm
More about this movie…Leslie Mann is the wife of director Judd Apatow. Nepotism works, for once. And the 2 little girls are actually their daughters.
http://www.fandango.com/commentator_mannonfire_109