Pretty good, far from great.

Rating: 7/10 (17 June 2007)

Are we all so fed up with how bad comedies usually are that we're instantly calling this one of the greatest movies of all time? I like Judd Apatow's style, but Knocked Up mined a lot of the same territory as The 40 Year Old Virgin, and in a less original way. That movie's endearing exploration of freaks, geeks, and immature man/boys was tighter and funnier. Knocked Up was a bit too schmaltzy and meandering during it's 129 minutes. Many scenes and situations come straight from the generic pregnancy movie guidebook. Buying all the pregnancy tests in a store was funny 15 years ago in Singles, and if a filmmaker wanted to cop from John Hughes, She's Having a Baby isn't the greatest place to start. This was indeed an enjoyable movie, but it doesn't quite reach greatness.