Knocked Up Review
10 September 2007
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Cast – Katherine Heigl, Seth Rogan, Leslie Mann, Paul Rudd
Dir – Judd Apatow
Rating – 4/5
Alison has everything going for her after being promoted to in front of camera instead of behind at E! She goes out to celebrate with her older sister Debbie (Mann)
Not long into their celebration Debbie is called home to see to her children but Alison stays behind with Ben, a guy she met at the bar earlier that night.
As the night continues the pair get more and more drunk and they end up back as Alison’s But when morning breaks Alison discovers that Ben is an overgrown child with no money and no job.
After breakfast they politely go their separate ways.Until two months later after vomiting during an interview Alison discovers that the unthinkable has happened.
Director Judd Apatow is best known for his sex farce, and surprise hit The Forty Year Old Virgin and his follow up fearlessly delves into the taboo of a one night stand that leads to pregnancy.
It’s almost like a modern day Beauty and the Beast tale of the beautiful, aspirational Alison and the likeable slacker Ben who sees himself as the next media entrepreneur. With his friends he is developing a website that gives the precise times that there favourite actors get naked in their movies.
They are not the type of people who would get together, even when drunk, but it’s true testament to the actors and the script that the audience accept them as a couple and ultimately parents.
Knocked Up was made for a mere $15 million yet is has managed to be the most original film of the summer.
It’s an incredibly funny comedy with strong performances from the entire cast. Heigl, who was a surprise casting due to her lack of comedy experience, portrays beautifully her vulnerability and insecurity. And Seth Rogan is set to become a star on the basis of his performance as Ben, who transforms from no hoper to an everyman hero, in a bid to make Alison realise that he can be depended on.
The supporting cast are also superb. Alison’s sister and brother in law hold the screen well together as the unhappy husband and insecure wife. They are the perfect and constant reminder to Alison and Ben how they don’t want their relationship to turn out.
But it’s Ben’s stoner friends who provide the most laughs with their drug habits and toilet gags and in particular martin Starr’s grown for a bet beard. In all this is a great comedy not quite making light of a very serious subject but bringing laughs to the predicament that Alison and Ben find themselves in. It will keep you entertained from start to finish, and at just over just two hours it’s considered long for a comedy.
The script is witty and well written with some great one liners you will find yourself using long after the closing credits have rolled. It creates sympathy and empathy with the main characters and by the end the audience is rooting for them to learn to trust one another and find happiness with each other.
Helen Earshaw
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