Knocked Up [2007] | ![Knocked Up [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lwvvfuFaL._SL75_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Judd Apatow
Actors: Katherine Heigl, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Martin Starr, Paul Rudd
Studio: Universal Pictures Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  41 reviews
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Format: Pal
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 124
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050582515893
ASIN: B000SLWWL6
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: December 26, 2007
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In a year that otherwise struggled to deliver where comedies were concerned, Knocked Up proved to be a very welcome treasure trove of laughs. It's from Judd Apatow, the man behind The 40 Year Old Virgin and the excellent TV show Freaks and Geeks, and sits easily as an equal to both. It's also a long-awaited showcase for the talents of Seth Rogen, who proves with some conviction that he can headline a movie. The premise of Knocked Up is simple. Seth Rogen and Kathryn Heigl share, for differing reasons, a one-night stand, and several weeks later, the latter discovers she's pregnant. Given that Rogen's character has been jobless for years, and that Heigl is trying to build a TV career, the two don't prove to be a logical match, yet as the pregnancy progresses, they try valiantly to get to know one another. The narrative itself is quite straightforward, but it's the execution and characters that lift it significantly. Apatow knows how to direct comedy, and with a script peppered with plenty of guffaw-out-loud moments and situations, he wrings very hearty laughs from the material. Plus, while its Rogen and Heigl who power the film, the supporting cast is simply superb, particularly the collection of people that Rogen's character surrounds himself with. It's perhaps guilty of running ten minutes too long, and there's little to surprise in the story itself, yet Knocked Up is nonetheless a terrific, earthy and grounded comedy, with so much to enjoy. It's hard to single out individual moments, and instead it simply seems more appropriate to declare Knocked Up as one of the best, and most rewatchable, comedies of the last few years. Don't miss it.--Simon Brew
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 Daft plot and great characterisation in a profane battle of the sexes July 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Knocked is in some respects not a particularly likeable film. As well as being dramatically fantastical it is sexist , crude and in severe need of judicious editing . For an alleged romantic comedy it,s not remotely romantic so the definitive criteria by which it should be judged is , is it funny? Well...i laughed....quite a lot, which is possibly proof of my latent sexism and love of profane banter but what the hell.As Frank Zappa once said you are what you is.
Ben Stone( Seth Rogan) is a sedentary pothead who lives with the mates who are jointly setting up a website -"flesh of the stars.com" - which catalogues nude scenes in movies. Allison Scott( Katherine Heigl) works in television, is ambitious, articulate and attractive , though she lives with her married sister Debbie (Leslie Mann). When she is given her own show to host she celebrates with a night on the town where she meets Ben in a nightclub. They are roaringly drunk and end up having sex back in her room where a simple verbal misunderstanding leads to them doing it unprotected, and well it,s not hard to guess what happens next.
As if the possibility of two such disparate characters engaging in rumpy pumpy does,nt stretch credibility enough( He would naturally jump at the chance , forgive the pun, but her....) , not that credibility is so much of an issue for this type of film , what transpires is truly unbelievable. In real life Allison wouldn't have anything more to do with anyone like Ben no matter how sweet and cuddly he tried to be but in the la la world of movie land she wants to make a go of it with him. So they couple up , row a lot , fall out big time before the inevitable feel good ending where the bong sucking Ben undergoes a character transformation akin to Hannibal Lecktor becoming a UN peace envoy ( though if Tony Blair can do it)
Having pointed that out it remains for me to point that what Knocked Up is good at is the characterisation. Even if the situations and plot developments feel phoney the characters don't,...they feel real. The dialogue is superbly tart- the easily offended will be .....well easily offended i suppose but the things these people say to each other is the way real people talk to each other. Women may balk at the depiction of them as mostly humorous neurotic harridans though they do get some of the best lines , especially Leslie Mann( who in the real world is married to director Judd Apatow , their two daughters play the girls in the film and the eldest gets some great lines) in her scene with a nightclub doorman.
Over two hours is at least 20 minutes too long for this type of material .Whole scenes could have been edited out to no great deleterious effect and it sometimes feels Apatow who wrote the script as well as directing is trying too hard to achieve some measure of profundity beyond the reach of the material. Still it is funny with relaxed empathetic performances, many from Apatow regulars with Rogen particularly outstanding as the immature but curiously likable Ben.
In the end what Knocked Up seems to conclude is that the bonds between men are shallow but effortless while the bonds between men and women require far more work but when that work is put in are far more rewarding. At least that's the way i saw it, though what it says about the relationships between women is anyone's guess.
 Good stuff. June 8, 2008
Comedy about a young high-flying career woman getting pregnant after a drunken one-night stand and the consequences of this for her and the father, who just happens to be an unemployed recreational drug user whose hobbies include creating smut websites. A likeable comedy that explores many life issues and has engaging leads in the form of Katherine Heigl (who I have loved since her days in the teen sci-fi series Roswell) and Seth Rogen as the mismatched couple dealing with the unexpected pregnancy. Good stuff.
 rubbish June 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this gets 2 cause ive given alot of 1 star reviews recently,this wasent terrible but its boring and the performances are bland
Romantic, funny and different May 21, 2008
Everyone has seen a movie at least once in their life with a similar premise to this little gem. Girl meets guy, girl gets pregnant and guy isn't exactly the best candidate to be a father.
From the creator of The 40 Year Old Virgin, this puts an interesting spin on the age old comedy situation of unwanted pregnancy.
Alison, a pretty and smart tv journalist for E! goes clubbing to celebrate a promotion at work and meets Ben, an unemployed ever so slightly chubby twenty-something Canadian who spends most of his days getting high, or watching movies with partial female nudity.
To Alison's absolute horror, she wakes in the morning to find she has in fact slept with Ben. The two have absolutely nothing in common, and she leaves it as a one night stand with no intentions of ever contacting Ben again. However after four weeks, she's throwing up, and several pregnancy tests later concludes she's pregnant and the only man she's been with is Ben.
Instead of doing what she's advised by her mother (take care of the problem and get on with her life) she decides she's going to have the baby and despite hardly knowing Ben, she invites him into her life so that he can be a part in the pregnancy and the unborn baby's life.
While I don't think the movie is as hilarious as everyone had pegged it, there were a few moments that did have me laughing quite hard (not too many), I was very surprised at how sweet the whole outcome of the movie is and how two people who weren't ever meant for each other to begin with grow on each other while accepting their responsibilities and trying to do the right thing.
This is actually I think the first movie I've really seen Seth Rogen play a lead in and I was blown away just by how good he is, he pulls off the confusion and the struggle in his character rather well, he comes off as very sweet, honest and genuine portraying Ben, and the chemistry between him and Katherine Heigl is absolutely perfect.
Both are outstanding as young people out of their depths who have to set aside their differences and learn to love each other out of obligation and maybe just find happiness that was never expected.
 rubbish April 12, 2008
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
this is proberly one of the worst movies ive seen...I gave up after about 45 minutes...i really didnt find anything funny, and there was alot of unnessasary swearing....
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