Knocked around by so much bitterness.

Rating: 2/10 (24 June 2008)

I really wanted to like KNOCKED UP because THE 40-YEAR OLD VIRGIN was funny, but this was such a letdown. There were a few laughs, but for the most part I felt a lot of bitterness. What's with the women in this film?
Alison (Katherine Heigl) was an ambitious, annoying twit that never thought to use birth control and of all the guys to score with, she picks Ben, a schlubby slacker with no future to speak of. It's obvious that being an adult is not a high priority for him, so why does it take forever for her to see that?
Jill (Kristen Wiig) is such a bitter pill you'd think that she wants Alison's job at E!. I was hoping Alison would get all hormonal on Jill and put the sourpuss in her place. Yell, scream, anything. The scenes with her bosses at E! are so boring and pointless, just like Jill.
But Debbie (Leslie Mann) was the worst of all. She's perpetually needy, puts down her husband every chance she gets, apparently has no life beyond her equally annoying kids and annoying sister Alison, and has a cow when her husband Pete (Paul Rudd) decides to do things without her, like join a fantasy baseball team? She dumps him for not doing things with her? WTF? That's not grounds for separation. Has it ever occurred to Debbie that maybe just maybe he wants to not be around an annoying shrew 24/7? Maybe he should've cheated on her. Having her as a wife would've been a perfect excuse to do so. And why would he want her to take him back? He should've stayed in Vegas and never looked back. Not a marriage worth saving, kids or no kids.
Another case where the movie doesn't live up to the hype.