Time Will Tell if I really love this film, but it's very funny.

Rating: 8/10 (1 June 2007)

Knocked Up - A fun-loving slacker Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) has a one night stand with Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl) and they decide to keep the baby and strike up a relationship from there.
The acting in this is solid, the stand-outs being the two 40 Year Old Virgin veterans Rogen and Paul Rudd, who looked like they had a blast making this film. Katherine Heigl brings them down to earth in a part that in a lesser actress' hands would be annoying. My one real complaint would be that at times the comraderie between the Seth and his buddies felt a little forced, unlike thhe group in Virgin.
Judd Apatow is quickly rising through the ranks as one of my favorite comedy directors (Up there under Edgar Wright) and like The 40 Year Old Virgin, this film takes a long-shot premise (In reality, w/e your views on choice or not, this would easily end in an abortion) and runs with it in a more or less serious fashion, though there'd be less hilarity and far fewer movie references in a truly straight-forward version of this tale. If nothing good has come out of Spider-Man 3, at least this film got some good material out of it. And I don't ever recall seeing a better Robert De Nero or Arnold Schwarzennegger impression before. James Franco, Jessica Alba, Alan Tudyk and Steve Carrell (looking as uncomfortable about his Evan Almighty film as I am) all make cameo appearances.
Of course, movie references aside (There's one every 5 minutes or so), this movie is hilarious, and while there aren't that many laugh you to tears moments, the general feeling I had was glee. Rarely a minute goes by without something to make you at least smile, if not laugh out loud.
Humorous antics (and lo, there are many. From drugs to boffing to Cirque du Soleil, these guys can have fun with anything) aside, this is a coming of age story. These are some real characters that go with the funniness.
The main characters are very sympathetic, with the possible exception of Debbie from time to time. I felt she was rather cold sometimes. The movie makes sport several times of marital fights (emotion driven and pointless) and whether or not the women in the audience mind this or not, I don't know. Movie Mom gave this film a B- so I cannot make any claims as to whether the women like this film or not, but this film is one I'd definitely recommend to the guys.
Comedies are hard for me to give a final judgment on because the mark of a very good one is how many times you watch it afterward. I gave The 40 Year Old Virgin a B+ originally and it's become one of my all time favorite comedies. For now, I give Knocked Up an B+