Knocked Up is Fantastic

Rating: 10/10 (1 June 2007)

No way! A raunchy comedy...with heart? You betcha.
Ben (Seth Rogen) is your typical, young slacker. He doesn't do anything except play stupid games, get high and help create a new website with his buddies that tells you when and where all nudity is in films. Alison (Katherine Heigl) is an up-and-comer with E! and just got a promotion. She now gets face time on E! What else to do but go out and celebrate, right? After a series of events, Ben and Alison hook up at the night club and have a one-night stand. She wakes the next morning to realize the loser she just hooked up with, and quickly cuts ties.
Eight weeks later, she finds herself calling Ben up with news that she's pregnant.
Knocked Up follows them through the pregnancy and their fight to have a relationship for the sake of their child. Both seem to have feelings for each other, but rarely can they get on the same wavelink at the same time. Ben tries his hardest to be a good parent...he tries to muster up feelings for Alison that he's not really sure are there, he goes with her to every doctor visit, he buys baby clothes/nursery items and buys parenting books. Alison, doesn't seem to want to try as hard. She's glad he's there to help, and she is attracted to him, but she feels that the feelings are forced.
Knocked Up is a genuinely sweet and funny movie. It's so incredibly funny at a lot of points, but also unexpectedly touching, real and romantic.
The first half is much funnier than the second half, but the second half has much more depth. Throughout it all, it feels so real. So genuine.
The whole cast has great chemistry and is undeniably likable.
The best movie of 2007 to this point.
9/10