Knocked Up

Rating: 7/10 (30 January 2008)

From the writer/director of The 40-Year-Old Virgin, this is a pretty good "romantic" comedy, which I preferred much more than the following film from the same makers, Superbad. Basically slob/slacker Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) is in the process of establishing flesh of the stars.com, a website listing nudity times for famous actresses nude scenes in films (he later finds out Mr. Skin has already done this). Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl) is a responsible young woman who works behind the scenes on the E! Television Network. They meet each other at a club where they are celebrating the promotion of Alison's sister. Anyway, they get drunk together, and get into bed together, and when he gets the condom out, and she says "Just get on with it", he mistakes her and throws it away. Next morning, they realise they have nothing in common and go their separate ways. Eight weeks pass, Alison begins feeling sick a lot, and after countless pregnancy tests, she is positive on all of them. She gets in contact with Ben, and he is at first shocked and also angry that she has decided to keep it (oh, they confirmed it with a scan). After this, they start spending more time together, and do actually start to have laughs and slowly fall for each other. Obviously there is a big argument as she gets nearer to giving birth, and Ben obviously thinks it's Alison's hormones, but don't worry, they get back together at the birth and there is a happy ending with their new baby girl. Also starring Paul Rudd as Pete, George of the Jungle's Leslie Mann as Debbie, Jason Segel as Jason, Jay Baruchel as Jay, Superbad's Jonah Hill as Jonah, Martin Starr as Martin, Ghostbusters' Harold Ramis as Ben's Dad, A Knight's Tale's Alan Tudyk as Jack and Bill Hader as Brent, with cameos (for the E! Network segments) including Jessica Alba, The 40-Year-Old Virgin's Steve Carell, Andy Dick, Spider-Man's James Franco, Eva Mendes, E!'s Ryan Seacrest and Punk'd actor Dax Shepard. With some good gags, a realistic plot and a good old fashioned love-hate relationship, a really good film. Very good!