douglasbrewer-74526
After the frat pack started to fizzle out by the mid 00s a new bunch of younger comedians took their place. This stoner gang consisted of Seth Rogen, James Franco, Judd Apatow behind the camera, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd etc and they would rule the roost of Hollywood comedies for the next few years. Knocked Up is one of their first and one of the finest entries. This isn't a laugh riot but more about comedy with dramatic elements.
runamokprods
Much like Judd Apatow's preceding film 'The 40 Year Old Virgin', this takes a silly high concept Hollywood idea (slacker slob impregnates upper class hottie, and in spite of all odds they have the baby and fall in love), injects it with both high and low-brow humor, pathos, good acting, and real insight. Seth Rogan is terrific, but so is Catherine Heigel, Paul Rudd, and everyone in the big supporting cast.On second viewing I experienced it as having more heart but fewer laughs than I remembered - an OK trade off. Also, a couple of plot jumps bugged me a bit more - the fact that abortion is never even really considered or even discussed feels like a dodge, and the transition of this unlikely twosome into a couple, even an awkward one feels a bit quickly skipped over for a film that runs over 2 hours. But neither of those points are enough to really hurt a sweet and wonderful character comedy.Side note: I saw the 129 min theatrical version the 1st time around and the 133 min version on the blu-ray the 2nd.
dale-51649
Very typical current day romantic comedy ; unattractive, unworthy fat guy knocks up fairly cute (at least for him) out of his league , together gal, with predictable results. Since Hollywood doesn't give us suspense anymore, we all know how this will unfold. The "better than thou" girl at first doesn't like the guy, then his goofy antics and persistence eventually win her over. It has not changed for 50 years, except in the old days they would not have had sex until after they committed, where as today they have sex first, then figure it out later.I am not passing judgment on the hook up culture of today. I am passing judgment about every film being always the same. Apatow is no different- the male character is ugly, dumb, incompetent and needy, the woman is attractive, smart , independent and gets to make all the choices. Too bad in the real world even the fat guys are unavailable, since they just stay the the basement playing video games. Probably seen guys portrayal in films like this played a role.Some of the messages the movie sends could be negative for young people. Not the "knocked up" part , that is nothing new, but they portray the doctor as an annoying A-hole , even though he has brains and training beyond anybody who is in or made the film. No wonder the guy in it who plays the doctor (yes he is a real one) left being a real doctor (I'm not kidding) for a film career. Hey Judd-OB-GYNs work an average 90 hours per week, you wanna deliver your own kids? Show some respect.The acting is good , and some of the players like Hill are very talented comics. But I am worried about what a childhood and adolescence of seeing these films will do to a male. They always see themselves as negative, and if they have a male friend, they suffocate in self conscious "does this look gay, does that seem gay" gags. Makes you wonder what some of these filmmakers childhoods were like; Did they see any competent, worthy men?
findfreightonline
Seth Rogen is a unattractive, short, non-funny character* that uses his mediocre success to lure a beautiful talented actress (wearing a pregnancy vest... obviously to make the act of intercourse (or so he wishes) a bit more bearable) into making a unfulfilled rotten fantasy come true. Seth does not have the intellectual or artistic capability to be any kind of web or media designer and tries to fulfill his unfulfillable fantasies of being any worth, what so ever, to society by playing this uncomfortable and unbelievable character *Seth Rogaen himselfSeth Rogen is a waste of time for any body that has a double digit IQ
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