Hey IZZIE you got some splainin to do!

Rating: 6/10 (2 June 2007)

I'm not a fan of most comedies. I love to laugh and I have a good subversive sense of humor, but most American comedies leave me especially cold. So I decided to read up on what the critics had to say about "Knocked up." They all loved it  overwhelmingly so! I was very disappointed! Not just in the movie but in the critics! Usually I can go to Rotten Tomatoes and agree with the average rating given by the dozens of America's critics. Maybe it's just a generational issue. I'm geriatric; old but not yet ancient. Maybe if I'd seen this when I was twenty or thirty I would have found it hilarious. Maybe most of the critics are young too; actually I'm sure they are. I really don't want to have to read AARP's movie reviews, because I know lots of old fogies who wouldn't be seen dead in movies I like.
What I discovered  too late  was that people over 45 gave this movie thumbs down. So I was right, it is a generational thing. Young people like to watch themselves and humanity portrayed as shallow; feckless; and amoral. Us older farts are bored to death by it.
Watching a movie about men permanently stuck in adolescence leaves me cold. It's the same with watching movies about drunks or drug addicts. What's funny about emotional retards? There's no pathos about pathetic people! The one organ that can get us to evolve is the Brain! Watching people abuse theirs sobers me right up, and that makes laughing hard! Watching a movie about a vibrant, gorgeous woman apparently not intelligent enough to know what her zillion other options were, other than to have sex with a Neanderthal  even when she's not seriously sh*t faced  and then to try and make it work with the moron set my teeth on edge! What's funny about stupidity?
But then this is the woman who plays "Izzy" on Greys anatomy, the one who fell in love with a terminally ill patient of hers, killed him off while trying to save him, and is now in the arms of the only married friend of hers! Not the sharpest morality wise!
Watching Kathy Heigl diminish her star quality in this way saddens me. It reminded me of Jane Seymour's embarrassing fling in "Wedding Crashers." She's young and she'll go on to better things  I hope.