An adult comedy about relationships.

Rating: Null/10 (10 November 2007)

The first thing my wife said when the movie ended, "It would have been even funnier without so much foul language." "Knocked Up" is a funny movie, and I suppose the younger generation expects comedies to be filled with foul language and very crude sexual references, but this movie would actually have been much better if it had been toned down.
Seth Rogen is Ben Stone, a slacker and part of a larger slacker group of 20-something guys who spend most of every day thinking and talking about sex, while smoking pot, and never realistically expecting to get any. At least not from any decent young lady. They seem to be developing a website that will allow a viewer to find movies that their favorite actors have appeared nude in, and at what exact times in the movie. This they hope will make them money.
Katherine Heigl is Alison Scott who works behind the scenes at the TV show "E!" and is surprised to be given the chance to be on the air. Elated, she and her married sister go out to celebrate. At a night spot, quite by accident because the bar tender was so slow, Alison and Ben meet. He isn't really the kind of guy she would be attracted to, she isn't the kind of lady he really would expect to get very far with, but aided by the personality lubricant we call alcohol, they end up at her place, in bed. Via a very badly missed communication they end up having sex without protection and, 8 weeks later ... you guessed it, pregnant.
The script and story truly are bright and entertaining, but the crude language really detracts from it. Still, it is a funny and realistic examination of the relationship difficulties of two people thrown together by an unforeseen incident. Can they make it as a couple, time will tell.