it is shockingly funny but some might feel tricked to discover that there are more pockets of drama and romance than the target audience would normally sign up for

Rating: 6/10 (23 October 2007)

As it is irreverently and grossly hilarious, don't make the mistake of watching this with your parents.
Seth Rogen (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) plays ultimate slacker Ben who gets the camera-friendly and otherwise level-headed E! News correspondent Alison (played by Katherine Heigl of Grey's Anatomy) pregnant. Astonishingly, Alison decides to try and make it work with Ben despite having zilch in common, for their baby's sake.
Rogen plays his character well, with no insecurity and with a wicked amount of confidence playing Heigl's unlikely beau. The kids who play Debbie (Leslie Mann) and Pete's (Paul Rudd) children are Leslie Mann and Judd Apatow's (the director) real children, and they are incredibly charming and deliver their lines without any annoying trace of self-consciousness.
While Knocked Up is marketed as a comedy grossfest, it is surprisingly also much more. For the most part, it is shockingly funny but some might feel tricked to discover that there are more pockets of drama and romance than the target audience would normally sign up for.