"Don't drink and bone."-Knocked Up (2007) Review

Knocked Up Review

Director: Judd Apatow

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Codestar30 Rating: 7/10

When Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl) gets a promotion at work, she and her sister, Debbie (Leslie Mann) decide to go out to a night club to celebrate. While there Alison meets Ben (Seth Rogen), and after Debbie has to go and attend to an emergency with one of her young children, Alison and Ben proceed to get drunk, dance the night away, go back to her place, and get down and dirty. However, due to a misinterpretation of "Just do it!", Ben doesn't use a condom, and 8 weeks later Alison asks him out for dinner, and tells him she's pregnant. 

This film is a great, and very unique take on the Romance story. Instead of the usual Rom-Com structure, (2 people meet, fall in love and push through funny obstacles and end up together happy ever after), this is a story of 2 people falling in love when they wouldn't of under normal circumstances. If Ben had not had got Alison pregnant they would have both gone their separate ways and probably never seen each other again. However, he does get her pregnant, and as a result they are forced to give each other a go for the sake of the soon-to-be child, and do eventually fall in love. Its the love story back-wards.

This film is a comedy, so obviously your going to be watching it wanting comedy, and man has this film got comedy! It's a very funny movie on the whole. Although the laughs are scarcer at the beginning, if you stick with it the hilarity will pick up as the film moves along. There are so many moments when I simply could not stop laughing. My favorite part was probably near the middle, where Ben, and Debbie's husband Pete (Paul Rudd), go to vegas, get high on mushrooms and once back in their hotel room Pete Beings to count the chairs. Pete-"There are five different types of chairs in this hotel room". Ben- "That's way too many chairs for one room!". (It's a lot funnier in the movie.)

Definitely a movie you should see. Very funny. I give it a hearty recommendation. WARNING: if you watch this movie when your pregnant you may laugh so much that it will make you go into labour.