"I'd never thought that the guy who knocked me up would be the right one for me"

Rating: 9/10 (24 October 2007)

*Knocked Up SPOILERS*
Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl) works behind the scenes at E! Network. One day, after taking care of a Ryan Seacrest (playing himself) seriously angry with self-important 'celebrities' such as the incredibly talentless Jessica Simpson (who ironically appears later very briefly as herself in a silent cameo role) she is summoned to her boss (Alan Tudyk)'s office and is told that she's been promoted to on-screen reporter.
She goes out with her control-obsessed (during the 'pedophiles in our neighborhood' scene I wanted her husband to close the laptop on her hands) sister Debbie (Leslie Mann).
Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) is the quintessential loser; he has no work but checking out movies to find out when and where the stars (female... I'm guessing they were going to open a male section after the launch) get naked (from which stems one of the funniest quotes: 'When Harry Met Sally's... ahem, happy place'), is tubby, unshaved, loves to play retarded games and smoke pot with his friends.
He happens to be in the same club Alison is, they meet, flirt with each other and before they know it it's off to the bedroom.
Eight weeks later... Ben's phone rings. It's Alison and she's pregnant. A terrified Ben decides to face his responsibilities and be there for the girl, in the meanwhile he becomes friends with his 'brother-in-law' Pete (Paul Rudd), who feels so suffocated by his wife he feels the need to hide his need to have some 'me time', and later confesses to not feel worthy of his wife, and helps him and Alison's sister to work out the kinks in their marriage, faces the truth about the patheticness of his life and attitude and basically decides to start a new chapter in his life, especially after his behavior during an earthquake while Alison was sleeping at his.
And as the due date nears, Alison and Ben begin to seriously fall in love...
This is one of the cases where the hype is actually well deserved; the directing and the writing work on all levels with a surprising ability to go from the laugh-until-I-die to the moving and back again, and the cast is absolutely up to par, from the charismatic Heigl and endearing Rogen, to the more experienced Rudd and Mann, to the actors playing the circle of Ben's friends (one of which played one of the main characters in 'Superbad', or did he?).
Definitely a movie to get on DVD.
Knocked Up (Italian Title: Molto Incinta (Very Pregnant)): 9/10.