"She don't care what her mama said, no. She's gonna have my baby"

Rating: 9/10 (26 August 2008)

For Alison Scott (extremely beautiful Katherine Heigl) everything should have been just party and more party after she got a dreamed promotion in her work at E!. For Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) everything should have been just party and more party yet without any girl just with his cool friends (Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Jason Segel and Martin Starr), , all together having the usual routine. They had fun together but what's the only way to watch these two making love? Well you know, it was a crazy night for both so in the next morning we have again these two as the two total different persons that they are from each other; obviously Alison is the "affected" one and the one who is going to be cruel. So what's the only way to make that Alison needs to see Ben again? The title of the movie says everything.
"Knocked Up" was for me the last movie to watch of the Apatow "family"releases from 2007. And yes they are like a family so here everybody is quite known so in that way basically everybody is kind of making a role that they had already made, basically is like they were not even acting, specially Jonah Hill. Again Seth Rogen and his "brother" Jonah Hill "command" the gang that will deliver hilarious stuff, those are a bunch of cool friends from Canada, stoners and hard-workers. The main problem is that basically their work doesn't give them any money since their website is cumming soon but soon the other problem will be related with the fact that their cummming soon website is nothing new. On the other side we have a family that have it all but is full of distrust. I understand why Katherine Heigl is pointed this film as sexist, she said that the film "paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys". Sure but it is just a movie and not because the sister of Alison (played by Leslie Mann) is not a very likable character (yes she is a bitch!) every woman is like her obviously. Here you will be a hundred percent on the side of Pete (Paul Rudd) -he was out just to play fantasy baseball!- who will be basically Ben's friend to turn this at a point in the men vs. women kind of stuff (going to Cirque du Soleil with mushrooms is not a good idea!). Anyway, this is a funny movie; it makes that our Big Lebowski-like character changes from being a simple lazy stoner to be a productive guy. After all he was a f****** lucky guy, yes he was very lucky!
For me happens with this movie the same that with "Superbad", both are not the masterpieces of comedy that many were and are claiming but both are very enjoyable movies that I do recommend and that I do liked a lot. With "Knocked Up" happens also that it has been pointed for having pro-life themes just like "Juno". If you are wondering I'm pro-choice and these are just movies and both have their characters in a situation and with specific circumstances. Obviously that doesn't need and are not to be seen as if they were true. Anyway, I think that between "The 40 Year Old Virgin", "Superbad", "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" and "Knocked Up" my least favourite is this one but obviously that doesn't mean that it was a sort of disappointment, finally it is as entertaining, enjoyable and funny as I was expecting. These movies are those kind of movies that, with the "pretext" of showing them to your girlfriend, family, etc., are very easy to enjoy more than just a single time. That's very nice. Oh and if you were wondering, for an odd reason, about my title, well that's a line of a Kings of Leon song that shares title with this movie.