Knocked Up [Blu-ray]

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Starring: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Jason Segel
Binding: Blu-ray
Published: 2008-09-30

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Knocked Up [Blu-ray]

Editorial Review:

The writer and director of The 40-Year-Old Virgin delivers another a hilarious hit comedy! They say that opposites attract. Well, for slacker Ben (Seth Rogen) and career girl Alison (Katherine Heigl), that's certainly the case - at least for one intoxicated evening. Two months and several pregnancy tests later, Ben and Alison go through a hysterically funny, anxious and heartwarming journey that leads to huge laughs in the most outrageous comedy of the year!
Unwanted pregnancy might sound like a risky subject for slapstick comedy, but Knocked Up is from writer-director Judd Apatow--so we are in the hands of a man who likes to push things. And like Apatow's predecessor, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up is a shaggy crowd-pleaser, a comedy strewn with vulgarity but with a sweet heart at its center. A one-night stand between the utterly mismatched Ben (Seth Rogen, his first starring role) and Alison (Katherine Heigl) results in said pregnancy, and the two people reunite for mutual support--even though they barely know each other. Ben's a slob who lives with four other guys, all of whom share the same stunted approach to maturity; Alison is a new on-air personality at the E! channel. That these two eventually develop a shared understanding and affection is perhaps the movie's biggest stretch (some of the male-humor jokes amongst the guys are idiotic enough to test anybody's hope of civilizing them).
Rogen and Heigl don't really jump off the screen, but, to be fair, the movie frequently needs them to play straight while the supporting cast cuts up. Virgin vets Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd are around to supply some humor, as Alison's sister and brother-in-law, and the four idiots who live with Ben (Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Jason Siegel, and Martin Starr) are in their own zone of sophomoric bad taste. Still, by 40-Year-Old Virgin standards, this movie doesn't explode, and it sometimes feels ramshackle to the point of not being thought out. Apatow's indulgence of actors creates some fine moments (Paul Rudd seems to have most of them), but it can also make a movie feel flabby, and this one is overlong by the length of a belly. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

Laugh out loud-funny:

This movie is about the tragedies of the American 'clubbin' scene; we see the character's very drunk and impaired of their judgment's and one drink too many causes a one night stand to turn into an iminent end for a mariage. The father is very irresponsible and unwilling until he see's the potential problems he has created begin to rise up and start to crawl back to him..

Wee Jimmy just crowning away:

I have not seen this film in a while, but I do remember it being pretty good. However, the birth seen may be disrubign for some, with the effects used definately not being funny. One of my friends could not watch that part. My only real complaint was that the film dragged on a bit, but not as much as wedding Crashers or Anchorman did. the transfer is the same as the HD-DVD version, which was pretty good; no Dark Knight though

Great movie, good disc (blu-ray) review:

The movie is great. If you haven't seen it, I'd highly recommend it. This one is directed by Apatow himself; so, you you know it's one of the better ones that carries his "brand"...unlike some of those cheeseball movies with Will Ferrel. More to the point, you get the sense that he made this movie for himself or his family. For example, his wife in real life is Leslie Mann, and his daughters play his and Leslie's daughters in the movie. But enough about a review of the content...I assume that if you're... more info

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