NOT knocked out by Knocked Up.

Rating: 1/10 (4 November 2007)

So much good buzz over Knocked Up. Turns out all the buzzing was done by retarded bees. This was not a good movie and I'll tell you why.
The characters were mostly despicable and, worse, not believable as real people. Real twenty-something men, crude and disgusting though they may be, are not as crude and disgusting as the men in this movie. Real people as successful as Pete and Debbie do not behave the way they did in the movie.
The movie was unable to convince us there was anything real between Ben and Allison. They had zero chemistry and zero physical, emotional or intellectual connection. Zero. So, it didn't make sense that they would have sex in the first place. It didn't make sense that this successful woman would EVER consider keeping that loser's baby. And it didn't make sense that Allison would fall in love with Ben. Yeah, the script can say they fell in love and the actor's can mouth the words at the right time but they sure didn't convince us.
The movie employed bad actors. We already knew Ryan Seacrest and James Franco can't act. But, worse, Ken Jeong as Dr. Kuni, was awful.
Cameo roles by Office personnel (BJ Novac, Craig Robinson, Steve Carell) took us right out of the story. "Oh, look, there's Ryan."
The movie was way too long. The editing was atrocious. If I can tell that, why couldn't the director and the film editor tell?
I gave it one star to counteract the mindless overpraise Knocked Up generated. It's really about a 3-star movie. It would be okay as background noise when you're cleaning your house.