Coarse & Crude

Rating: 1/10 (8 July 2007)

Knocked Up is offensive in almost every way. The writers -- vocabulary-challenged -- resort to using the F-bomb throughout the movie, along with other language that confirms that our country's educational system has been dumbed down, severely dumbed down. It's really too bad because the basic story line would offer great potential to truly talented writers (e.g., keep the baby vs. having an abortion; physical & emotional changes caused by pregnancy; accept or run from responsibility). Funny and serious would not be mutually exclusive when handled by writers of good ability.
Both men and women are the subject of assault in this film. The men are drug and sex- crazed; or weak, immature or brain-fried. The women are petty, shallow and shrewish (although Miss Heigl escapes this movie without damage (other than guilt by association)). Children are not spared either. The director uses his own children in this film and even has them reciting lines about genitalia.
Don't think that the coarse script is the only offense. The movie is also visually offensive -- directed and filmed to give life to the crass and crude script.
If you want to see Miss Heigl, watch her on the small screen in Grey's Anatomy, or rent "Love Comes Softly," a touching, well-written period film. As for "Knocked Up," don't waste your time or your money.