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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025195013963
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Running Time: 133 minutes
Sales Rank: 11662
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: June 01, 2007
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Editorial Review:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Every reason to bang a HOT drunk chick
This movie has its Lame ups and downs, but DAMN it's fun and better YET FUNNY....
Rating:  - It's Judd Apatow...what do you expect?
How is it possible that so many people are clueless about what a Judd Apatow movie entails? Scores of these reviews condemn this movie for being too crass, offensive, etc., as if they were expecting a Billy Wilder romp instead of a movie made in another century. This is the guy who has given us a wealth of movies which all tap extensively if not exclusively into the lowbrow, locker room, sophomoric comedic vein that is ala mode. Why would you think this offering would be any different?
That being said, I found it funny. Yes, the plot line is hard to swallow. The hot tv personality finding love with the unemployed, corpulent, stoner loser simply because they had a drunken night of sex is straight Hollywood fantasy. Still, it isn't unrealistic that beautiful women go for less-than-handsome guys; just ask Ric Ocasek or Billy Joel. What I found most appealing is the deadly accuracy of the marriage between Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann's characters, the latter playing main character Alison's (Katherine Heigl) sister. The palpable angst that permeates their relationship is very real and very honest, as anyone who has had a failed marriage can attest, especially one built largely upon the arrival of children. Within the jokes about genitalia et al are some astute points about relationships, kids, acceptance, and maturity.
As for the jokes, I am on the fifty side of my mid-forties and I still laugh out loud at many of them, as crude as they may be. I work with a largely twenty-something crowd and ... Read More
Rating:  - Pathetic, vulgar, mindless filth
If you are in the 13-16 year old age group (or never progressed mentally past said stage) and love toilet humor and degradation of both sexes, this is the movie for you! I fervently hope you don't live near me.
Rating: - Crude and Disappointing
If you like stupid, inane, and bad language, you will love this movie. The movie is boring with a lot of ugly (inside) people.
Rating: - That was stupid
This movie was ridiculous and extremely sexiest. One of the worst things about this movie is that even though many (if not all) of the male characters constantly refer to women by derogatory names like "bitch" and "ho", just to name a few, and none of the female characters seem to mind much. Not to mention there's this mentality that all the slackers have where they think women are only around to orally please them. This movie makes you lose faith in men. Another annoying aspect of the movie was the constant amount of profanity. There's nothing bad or evil about profanity in general, but saying it constantly with only 2-5 regular words between each curse word does not make anyone sound cool or anything like that. It just makes a lot of the characters sound like complete morons.
As for the actual plot, there was no chemistry between the lead characters at all. Ben and Alison were completely different people and their relationship was a bunch of annoying bickering. This movie would've been better if she just had an abortion and they split up so the audience wouldn't have to put up with all of the horrendous film-making in the next couple of hours.
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