Overrated Knocking

Rating: 2/10 (22 May 2008)

I had watched this film on cable-TV a few nights ago and wanted to know what the appeal was. I still haven't a clue. Funny? I didn't laugh - not once. Not even a chuckle. Touching? Only when I had an itch. I didn't think anything could be more overrated, over-hyped and completely meaningless and forgetful than the gosh-awful "The 40 Year Old Virgin" but I was wrong. "Knocked up" blows that away for "why would anyone pay money for this?" I did not find one character likable, believable or interesting. I was totally annoyed at the whining, the over glamorization of "E! Entertainment Network", the over acting and over simplification of these actors AND their characters and situations.
Be honest: This feature film WAS an ABC after-school special you paid $12-$15 to see. And I shouldn't compare ABC Aftershool specials to this mess because many of them were light-years in interest, emotion and entertainment than this one.
Knocked up starts out well meaning enough - a career woman gets a promotion, goes out to celebrate and gets totally bombed, has one night casual sex with the ugliest guy in the bar, and later finds herself "knocked up." She should be so lucky in this day and time.
Then I had to sit through what seemed like hours of immaturity from 20-somethings who made other 20-somethings look like caution-to-the-wind alcoholic idiots in the age of STD's, AIDS and all sorts of other things they haven't even named yet. And after everything, she has a healthy, cute, smiling, bouncy baby and great career. Again, she should be so lucky.
A real dud of a film no matter what angle you look at it.