A Comedy Classic? Not Quite....

Rating: 7/10 (11 June 2007)

As with "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," I thought "Knocked Up" was funny and a I had a good time with it, but it didn't warrant the rapturous response it has received from critics, or the inexplicably high rating it has received here at IMDb.
Frankly, the joke about adult men refusing to grow up has worn thin, and not much more comic mileage can be squeezed from it. Also, it's a shame that a movie people are congratulating for its frankness and candidness doesn't have the balls to treat pregnancy the way it really is. It would have been nice in a movie about the beautiful act of bringing a child into the world for the filmmakers to extend that idea of beauty to the woman's body in pregnancy, but instead we have a gorgeous actress who never once convincingly looks, moves or acts like a pregnant woman, and who even looks gorgeous while she's in the middle of delivery no less.
But, when you consider the typical Hollywood comedy being churned out these days, many of which I saw previews for when I went to see this film, you can understand why a movie like this, that has sharp acting and writing, and whose laughs come from well-delivered lines and good timing rather than juvenile pratfalls and fart jokes, is blowing like a fresh breeze through our summer movie theatres.
Grade: B