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Knocked Up (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
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List Price: $19.98
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Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Joanna Kerns, Loudon Wainwright III, Harold Ramis
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025195010917
Format: AC-3
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-09-25
Running Time: 133
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2007-06-01
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The writer and director of The 40-year-old Virgin delivers another a hilarious hit comedy! 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 heartwarming journey that leads to huge laughs in the most outrageous comedy of the year!
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Summary: I was devasted to find
Comment: .. that this film wasn't the one that I thought it was going to be, namely a historical summary of cricket bat manufacture from 1703 to 1987 complete with an "Inside Duncan Fearnley" bonus DVD and a sound track featuring Geoff Boycott narrating his "100 best forward defensive shots".
Look people, you have to be somewhat simpleminded to get Knocked Up and then be offended by crass humour, fat blokes getting off with beautiful women, possible fart gags and rude words/nudity. What on earth do you expect? The film is directed by a director who specialises in directing films about general childlike and puerile behaviour, and stars people who were all in his previous 300 films featuring exactly the same sort of humour.
You might as well write, "I bought 'Planet of the Apes' on Amazon the other day but was disgusted to find gratuitous scenes of monkeys riding around on horses and speaking. Everyone knows that this is not standard simian behaviour. David Attenborough wasn't in it even once!"
Get with the programme. Kathryn Heigl is bloody delicious in this, and liked it so much she got knocked up herself, talk about life imitating art. And in an ironic turn of events, the plot line about the married man not cheating, but attending a fantasy baseball league rings some familiar home truths as well (as other reviewers have pointed out), art imitating life in my case. This is a funny film, well acted, well directed and with a warm heart. Recommended.
And my life liked it was well. (She didn't like Planet of the Apes though).
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Summary: Great Movie!!!
Comment: I have seen this movie many times. This movie is so funny. I put this movie on when I need a laugh.
I have to say that people who are offended by crude humor this may not be the movie for you.
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Summary: Hollywoodimess stinkeramus
Comment: A movie aimed directly at the 14-15 y.o., high school dropout audience--you know that segment of the population still titillated by the F-word. Unfunny, stupid, and totally unbelievable. An attractive young woman with everything going for her gets drunk and has sex with a stupid, foul-mouthed, unattractive, overweight man who has exactly nothing going for him. In the morning she wants to chew off her arm when she sees what she has been sleeping up but when she finds out she's pregnant--wonder of wonders--she tries to establish a relationship with the dirty, drug-befuddled loser who lives with half a dozen equally scuzzy men, half of whom are homosexual. Not to worry, he is attempting, albeit unsuccessfully, to make a living showing scenes of naked starlets clipped from movies.
Well, I'll admit the foregoing has some slight potential but the writers, directors, producers of this dreck make a mess even of this. Long before it is over I started to feel sick to my stomach but kept watching, wondering if there was a redeeming moment at the end. There wasn't...incredibly, it got even worse. Some movies are so very bad that they become slightly interesting. This one isn't one of them.
No doubt, quite deliberately on the part of the brain-dead director and writers, there's something here to offend almost anyone with semi-average sensibilties. Of special interest to me, is the use of small children to mouth crude sexual lines. This may not be illegal but it verges...closely...on child-abuse.
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Summary: Every reason to bang a HOT drunk chick
Comment: This movie has its Lame ups and downs, but DAMN it's fun and better YET FUNNY....
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Summary: It's Judd Apatow...what do you expect?
Comment: 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 I have come to realize that there is a generational change in what is funny, what is socially acceptable, what offends, and what passes for a new morality, if you'll pardon the usage of such a dangerous word. All I can recommend to those who don't find this kind of humor their style; don't watch it! We can argue the sociological, cultural, or moral implications of such a change in morays all day and night, but in the end, you either find it funny or you don't. But please spare the rest of us your whining. At this stage in the game, your "Oh! My virgin ears! I'm so offended" cries are contrived and disingenuous attempts to stab at the heart of a cultural change that you no longer are a part of. Every generation has its day and yours is past. Come to grips with it, go watch I Love Lucy, and stay out of the current release section.
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