World Famous Comics: Knocked Up (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]
Knocked Up (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]
Starring: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Joanna Kerns, Loudon Wainwright III, Harold Ramis Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: HD DVD Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen Label: Universal Studios Home Entertainment Number of Items: 1 Release Date: September 25, 2007 Running Time: 133 minutes Theatrical Release Date: June 01, 2007
Description: The writer and director of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" delivers another a hilarious hit comedy that's bursting at the seams with never-before-seen-footage! 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 awkward courtship that leads to huge laughs in the biggest comedy of the year!
Amazon.com:
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
JUDD APATOW, OPUS 2 *** 2007. Written and directed by Judd Apatow. Ben Stone and Alison Scott are going to have a baby. They don't know each other very well, they don't have the same interests and are not at all prepared to become parents. Coarse and crude, the film is presented as an example of the new American comedy. Why not, after all ? I smiled two or three times then vainly tried to find what the director wanted to tell us with KNOCKED UP and finally gave up. It wasn't worth the time and my energy. Already forgotten.
True Apatow Gloriousness PLACE IN THE HOLY FIVE: Judd Apatow is arguably the best producer of comedy films in the biz. Despite some some recent stinkers), the man has shown than he truly knows how to make great comedy that has as much heart as it does vulgarity. In my opinion, five of his films stand out as top notch. Those five are Superbad, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Pineapple Express, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and this movie, "Knocked Up." While "Knocked Up" is definitely the weakest of the five, it still have everything that makes those good. It's still great, but just not as hilarious and memorable as the other members of the holy five.
THE BEST: Ben has a nice character arc with some really cool development, which really adds a nice level of emotion to the comedy. Because if there is no heart or reason why the story matters, it might as well be a Will Ferrell film. The hilarious and ever crude dialogue is consistently hilarious. There were a lot of laugh-out-loud scenes and lines, and more than enough quotable dialogue that we've come to expect from Apatow films. Also, Seth Rogen is--as always--fantastic. Perhaps best of all, the supporting cast we associate with these films is all here.
THE WORST: It probably could have been a bit shorter. It's not that I was bored, because I wasn't at all; I just think the film could have been tighter had a few scenes been cut. It just seems like a bit less work went into making this as compact a film as other Apatow productions.
MISSING THE POINT: It baffles me that two of the three most popular reviews that get the spotlight are negative... and that they totally missed the point of the movie. Their cheif complaint is that the two main characters are light years apart in sophistication and looks, but in the end, I thought that while Ben (Rogan) was certainly a slacker with a lot he had to work on, he was--at his core--a truly caring person who was able to come through and be the man he needed to be. He was certainly as good a person as Alison (Heigl). And the looks thing? Really? Let's not be shallow, now.
OVERALL: It's a fantastic film, even though it doesn't quite measure up to the best work Apatow and co. have put out. However, that doesn't make it any less watchable. Like the other members of the holy five, it's something that needs to be in your DVD collection if you consider yourself a fan of comedy.
8/10
Knocked Up movie I haven't been too fond of K Heigl, but I have liked this movie and 27 Dresses - I liked how this movie unfolded and ended - maybe I will like her after all - maybe not
Overdone This "comedy" is just like all the others out there today. For some reason a movie made flatulance, sex and drugging funny. Because it was a success in that first movie it seems every single "comedy" since has fallen into the same trap. Instead of being original and coming up with their own jokes they copy all the other movies and repeat it verbatim. The only difference is they take different actors and actresses and make it "unpredictable" by changing up where the jokes are going to go. Give it a new name and you have "A fresh and hilarious comedy sure to entertain!"
This is one of those movies. There's no originality (in plot or jokes) and it's annoying to watch. I hate movies that like to get cheap laughs. It's insulting to me but obviously the producers know their audience well because it never fails to get a "falling on the floor crying" response out of 12 year olds. And why, why, WHY do people think the more vulgar a movie is and the more they swear the "cooler" and "funnier" the movie is. I'm so tired of the f-bomb getting dropped every other word. Swearing was cool when you were, say, back in middle school. When you're out of college it just makes you sound like trailer trash and uneducated. And I hate how men think it's OK to be vulgar towards women and women actually think it's OK too! Hilarious.
So if you like stupid (as in really stupid) stuff that has a lot of farting, vulgarity and is unoriginal, this is the movie for you. If you're tired of the same ol' stupidity with a different name, then skip this one (along with 90% of all the other "comedies" out there today).
A fresh surprise Other than Paul Rudd, I'd never seen any of the leading actors in anything. This film is a lot of fun. If I have to pick a fave moment it would probably be the initial "bonding" conversation between Alison and Ben's roommate's girlfriend, which captures stoner "logic" better than most such scenes. Re: the relationship between Alison's sister and her husband, I didn't see it as absolutely awful so much as a phase when the marriage was unusually challenged, which, of course, serves as an example of what Ben and Alison don't want to be. A sweet and funny little slice of improbable but vaguely possible life.
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