KNOCKED UP (2007)

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"You're prettier than I am."

I have been trashing this movie for... ever since it came out, and I didn't even see it! In fact, I only rented this, just to see how dumb it was! And guess what- I'm sure you can guess because you can see my 4 stars up there. So, yea, I really liked this movie. It's really not too crude, at least it isn't the kind of crude I hate, which is jokes relating to the male body, which it had a few of, but it seemed as though the crudeness was also pointed more in the direction of male and female, and the act of sex, which made it more bearable, and actually funny! My reason/logic may be a bit messed up, but that's the way I am.

The story is only half what I thought. I knew the part about the guy getting the girl Knocked Up, but I thought some of the film was actually going to include the baby. But actually the whole film is the pregnancy, and all the laughs along the way. So Ben (Seth Rogen) and Alison (Katherine Heigl) meet at a bar, and spend the night together. A few weeks pass, and they don't really contact each other. Until Alison realizes she's pregnant! So of course, she tells Ben, and they come together to get ready for the baby. Then the typical formula for a comedy comes, where they fight, and break up a few times, but then get back together. It's a simple story, that was executed to perfection. Yea, it's the perfect comedy. Does the crude humor in the right way, but doesn't go overboard with it, and is actually funny UNLIKE most comedies.

Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl have great chemistry. They work well together, and make a great comedy team... However, I thought that at some moments, Seth Rogen's friends really had no significance to anything to anything, and were just a little annoying sometimes. But that doesn't drop the acting from being a 4, because of Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl!

Writer/director Judd Apatow does great. I think I like his writing more than his directing because great writing leads to great directing of a film. This guy did The 40 Year Old Virgin. I know a lot of people like that movie, but I don't at all. I'm not sure what his problem was while doing that one, but whatever it was, he changed his ways. Though, something tells me he's not getting any at home, because all his comedies are about sex. Guess he can't think of anything else...

Overall, a movie that highly surprised me. I have been judging a lot of movies while I haven't even seen them, and I need to stop that! I might be missing out on other great movies like this!