It’s been a while, hasn’t it?
Title: Knocked Up
Genre (Movie): Comedy
Description: A loser with no life gets a hottie with a successful life pregnant, and they endure all the difficulties that follow.
Rating: 
I’m always loathe to review comedies. I’ve never really written a review for a great comedy like 40 Year Old Virgin, Anchorman, or any other movies like that because generally I think either you’re going to appreciate the humor or you’re not, and a review won’t really help you in that case. But after seeing Knocked Up a grand total of 30 minutes ago, I figured that this was such a different kind of comedy that it deserved some praise.
So here I go.
Knocked Up is about the worst thing that could happen to someone becoming the best thing ever. A pothead with no job and no income gets a successful, attractive interviewer from E! pregnant from a drunken one-night stand. Each person in this couple comes from a strange background, whether it’s a psychotic sister or a friend who is involved in a bet not to shave for an entire year. The interesting thing about the pregnancy involves not only its effect on the two main characters, but its effect on those immediately concerned with said characters–and, in some cases, those very far removed from the characters, too.
This is the funniest movie I’ve seen in years. I laughed out loud quite often in the movie, and that’s not something I usually do. There is both a plethora of one-liners and a great chain of event-related comedy. The characters are a riot–but no actor really steps out of his or her usual shell. Paul Rudd is his usual loveable-dick self, Leslie Mann is anal retentive, and Seth Rogen is a pothead. Not much exploration of options. But they do their stuff, and they do it well.
What really surprised me were the values this movie exemplifies. Sneakily enough, Apatow hid a very rare, yet important moral inside the raunchy film 40 Year Old Virgin: you shouldn’t have sex until you’re ready to. That’s a damn good piece of advice that nobody hears anymore. Similarly, Knocked Up is a tale about responsibility, love, care, optimism, and family values. Yes, there are tits and sex in this movie. Yes, the f-bomb is dropped often and explicitly. But past the R rating are some bonafide Sesame Street morales.
Knocked Up is a sweet movie to see with your date. Knocked Up is a disgustingly hilarious movie to see with friends. Knocked Up may even be–dare I say it?–a good movie to see with your parents, for although there might be two or three short scenes that could get a little awkward, after the movie, your parents will look at you and smile, because they know that next time, you’ll be wearing your goddamned condom.
“Oh yeah? Well you look like Babe Ruth’s gay brother…Gaybe Ruth.”
