It's more of a low-key version of Earn Your Happy Ending.
KNOCKED UP MEANING MOVIE
The movie takes great pains to show that Ben has to really work to sort out his life, instead of simply becoming a father and fixing his life instantly. A better example of Tropes Are Not Bad than most uses of this one though.Babies Make Everything Better: Over the course of the film, Allison's pregnancy transforms Ben from a hopeless stoner with no future into an at least passable father figure.Ambiguously Gay: Jonah in a deleted scene.Adam Westing: Ryan Seacrest as a foul-mouthed, hot-tempered version of himself.This Is 40 is a Spin-Off movie or "sort-of sequel" written and directed by Apatow that follows the lives of Allison's sister Debbie (Apatow's real life wife Leslie Mann) and her husband Pete ( Paul Rudd) five years later. A few dozen pregnancy tests later, her worst fears are confirmed: she's pregnant, and the only man that could possibly be the father is the last man she would ever see herself having a long-term relationship with. This plan is drastically altered when, 8 weeks after her encounter with Ben, Allison starts feeling ill in the mornings and she panics when she realizes that she missed her period last month. The next morning, Ben and a remorseful Allison say their good-byes, thinking that they will never see each other again. Several hours (and many drinks) later, a tipsy Allison invites Ben home with her, where they have what they believe to be a drunken one-night stand. The two meet while trying to get the attention of the club's bartender, and they hit it off. Though young and attractive, Allison has had little time for dating as her focus has been entirely on work and advancing her career. Little does he know that his life is about to be irrevocably changed when he goes out to a club one night and meets.Īllison Scott ( Katherine Heigl), who is an up and coming entertainment journalist for the E! television network, out celebrating her recent promotion to an on-camera position. In fact, his main concerns in life are getting high, and working on a website that he and his buddies designed which catalogs the nude scenes of female celebrities in popular cinema. He has no job, money from a settlement check that he carelessly splurges, and very little ambition.
I don't mind long movies at all, but 20 minutes could have been trimmed from this film to good effect.Knocked Up is a 2007 romantic comedy directed by Judd Apatow ( The 40-Year-Old Virgin), starring Seth Rogen ( Pineapple Express, Observe and Report) and Katherine Heigl ( Grey's Anatomy, 27 Dresses.)īen Stone ( Seth Rogen) is a carefree stoner who lives with his eccentric group of friends. Overall, Knocked Up was a good effort, but a little more editing of the script would have helped a lot. As the film trudges past the 90-minute mark, it is sometimes humorous, sometimes dour, often clichéd, all resulting in an awkward mix of styles. Marital dissatisfaction and the loss of youth are interesting themes to explore, but in doing so, Knocked Up fails to establish a consistent tone. To be sure, the first half of Knocked Up is great, but by the second half the script becomes mired in slow, cliché drama. Paul Rudd manages to break this up, taking some of the burden off Rogen, but Katherine Heigl and Leslie Mann's unfunny and quasi-sympathetic characters drag them down. At times it almost seems as if Rogen has landed in the wrong film, delivering clever quips and laughs while the barely-likable characters around him remain too serious. Rogen doesn't have enough in him at this point to carry an entire film on his shoulders, but often he is forced into that role, providing the only humor in many scenes (especially in the second half of the movie). The problem is that as the film goes on, he just doesn't get a whole lot to work with from his supporting cast. To be sure, Rogen is a funny guy - he handled the jump from second-tier supporting actor (a la 40 Year Old Virgin) to leading man surprisingly well, appearing confident and charismatic.
Much of what is wrong with Knocked Up is simply an over-reliance on Seth Rogen to deliver the laughs. It's certainly worth seeing, but maybe at a discount matinée instead of a full-price evening show.
KNOCKED UP MEANING PROFESSIONAL
Compared to a lot of what passes for comedy in the cinema these days, Knocked Up is great, but it's hardly the "instant classic" that I've seen it called in many professional and IMDb reviews. I went into the theater not knowing what to expect, not having seen the trailer, and two hours later I felt I had seen a decent movie, quite funny at times, but I couldn't figure out what everyone was making such a big deal about.
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