Knocked Up-Extreme Over-rated Version

Rating: 5/10 (24 September 2007)

With such high reviews on the web and so much word of mouth hype going around about this movie I expected it to be nothing short of brilliant and was I disappointed.
Being a movie from Judd Apatow (the director of the 40 year old virgin) I put this DVD into my Aphex DVD player with high hopes for something funny and expected the end to get very serious as most comedies tend to do these days (for reasons unknown to me).
If you actually think about it, a lot of comedies these days have the same formula- insert dick/fart/pot jokes for the first hour then make the audience cry on the last hour with "I almost lost my family!" Yes, I'm looking at you Adam Sandler (Click).
While I somewhat enjoyed the first hour of the movie and by the movie I mean all the beard jokes and the one with "red beard! red beard!" (if you've seen the movie)- the pot jokes really fell through for me and if I got any kind of chuckle out of the entire thing it was brief and definitely won't be repeated. The last half of the movie was completely serious and stark of humor as if the first half was written to be some kind of comedy classic while the second half was to be a Nicholas Sparks heart breaker.
And one thing that really got to me was the fact that the baby is never named- not something so big as to bring this movie down but it still aggrivates me. Being a father myself- a name was the first thing thought of when I found my partner was preggo.
All in all this entire movie is okay as a rental and likely nothing more. On personal opinion I would probably buy this movie used a couple years from now in a pawn shop- that's about it. I believe the main reason this movie got a 7.5-8/10 on IMDb is because of the pot jokes- middle America loves the pot jokes.
-fetus orgy