“Knocked Up”

4:12 am EST June 3rd, 2007 | Movies | 9 Comments

By far the funniest and best movie I’ve seen in a loooong time. Great plot, laughs, acting, etc. It’s also surprisingly sweet in a manly way (or maybe I’m just getting soft in this, the last year of my twenties). 4.5/5


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9 Responses to ““Knocked Up””

  1. White Whale says:
    June 3, 2007 at 10:52 am

    Saw the movie last night. I thought I was going to have a heart attack I was laughing so hard. I have to agree, much like the 40 year old Virgin, this movie is kinda inventing the “guy movie”.

  2. StarkyLuv says:
    June 3, 2007 at 11:31 am

    I loved the movie. Though I thought it was weird how they handled the abortion option (or satirical in they way noone would actually SAY it), I love how they showed how realistically accepting pending parenthood begins to change a person’s priorities.

    It wasn’t instantaneous with Ben as it would’ve been in another movie, it was a slow process. And it’s the FIRST move that realistically showed how an incredibly beautiful and a accomplished woman can actually fall for (traditionally) non-attractive schlub.

    Even the raunchiness wasn’t overdone and again, realistic. But the undisputed star of the movie wasn’t Seth Rogan, it was Leslie Mann (the director’s wife). I’m not kidding when I say she should be SERIOUSLY considered for a Best Supporting Actress nomination. That was one of the finest and most layered comedic performances in years.

  3. Oliver Willis says:
    June 3, 2007 at 11:39 am

    She was great – they could have easily made her the humorless shrew/bitch but I think it says something that the knuckledragging louts like me could see her pov.

  4. StarkyLuv says:
    June 3, 2007 at 5:36 pm

    Exactly, Apatow set that whole thing up to be that view of marriage that is traditional in these types of movies. But he actually let you INSIDE of their marriage to see what the rifts are and what formed them.

    I love the speech Ben gave Paul Rudd’s character in Vegas. At first your were really sympathetic to him but then when he admits that he can’t accept his wife’s love, what a scene. Mainly because I was once in that situation. Had a good woman that wanted me around all the time and for some reason I felt that was a BAD thing.

    It makes all the old cliches come true. “You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” “The grass isn’t always greener on the other side of the fence.” and blah, blah, blah.

    Much like his previous movie The 40 Year Old Virgin, the movie isn’t funny just because of the script, it’s funny because it’s so relatable. They are ADULT comedies not because there’s cursing and sex, but because they are about things ADULTS go through. We really haven’t had a director tap into it like that since Woody Allen and to a lesser extent Harold Ramis (who makes a cameo, not a coincidence IMO). Judd Apatow has a new dedicated fan here.

  5. oneview says:
    June 3, 2007 at 9:19 pm

    Commercials appeared to set a funny premise (girl got laid with the wroooong dude, how to deal with it) , but these clips aren’t that funny. The doctor was outlandish and loud and crude, but that doesn’t necessarily equal funny. The guy talking about vivid gay scenes is also outlandish, but again, saying something kind of shocking and unexpected doesn’t necessarily make it funny. Or, maybe I’d have kicked our obgyn’s ass if spoke that way, and maybe I just don’t want to see graphic (or even non-graphic) gay scenes. Hope these clips weren’t the best the movie had to offer.

  6. fd10801 says:
    June 3, 2007 at 10:55 pm

    After all the (unannounced) spoilers, I’ll wait for cable.

  7. bill l. says:
    June 4, 2007 at 11:09 am

    I haven’t seen the movie, but the doctor wasn’t their obgyn. I got the impression he was a friend/acquaintance of Ben’s. At the very least, he clearly wasn’t just some on call doctor since he goes to the trouble of ticking off the people who should have come to help but didn’t. As for the talk about gay scenes, that wasn’t about what you may or may not want to see. Apatow seems to be calling attention to the multiple standards in Hollywood over depiction of sexuality on screen, in this case, the reluctance to embrace the idea that homosexuality is not something to be covered up or glossed over to avoid any scenes of graphic intimacy. He also, obviously, is playing with the character’s possibly conflicted internal feelings, making fun of how far he will stretch the boundaries of his sexuality to stay in the heterosexual camp.

    So, you can take the doctor scene as an example of some of the interplay between associates (possibly friends, at least it seemed that way to me) where that kind of over the top banter frequently goes on (at least between guys), and you can appreciate the commentary on modern societal sexual tensions as expressed through cinema and some slacker’s overwrought need to see dude-on-dude action.

    …or…

    You can talk about how you’d man up and kick your obgyn’s ass and could go your whole life without seeing two guys tongue wrestle or sword fight.

    I just think the latter option misses the point.

  8. StarkyLuv says:
    June 4, 2007 at 5:46 pm

    The scene with that doctor is funny if watched in CONTEXT. That scene is set up by an earlier scene. If you had watched that previous scene, then just watching the doctor walk through the door in THIS scene would make you laugh.

  9. oneview says:
    June 5, 2007 at 5:20 pm

    Ok. Context might help the scenes, though. Possibly.