An Character-Driven Joyride of Non-stop Hilarity

Rating: Null/10 (2 June 2007)

Knocked Up is quite easily one of the best movies I have seen thus far this year. The story takes absolutely no time to be a drawn-out flick where you go, "Make it stop!" This movie is non-stop hilarity, a bit crude, but something that you can truly connect with and hits home with a heartwarming story of love and life.
The movie has a simple premise: two people who are seemingly "living the dream"--Alison, an E! Channel Correspondent and Ben, a half-witted, pot-smoking celebrity nude website administrator along with his five estranged friends whom he also lives with--decide to hook up for a fateful one night stand after meeting at a night club. They do the nasty, and the two part ways after that. The story picks up once again 8 weeks later, as Allison finds herself pregnant with what she hilariously discovers to be Ben's child. At once we as the audience sympathize, even empathize with her at her situation with Ben and the pregnancy. As the movie proceeds we find ourselves riding through the radically changing lives of Ben and Alison from the moment that she breaks the news to him that he's the father to when they fall for each other to the "irreconcilable differences" and finally to the painful and slow phase of "growing up" and facing each other's, as well as their own, fears to accept and uncover the joys of giving life and becoming parents.
Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl do a wondrous job of being the two people that "life came straight at, not caring about their plans". Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann, portraying Alison's brother-in-law and sister, are fantastic supporting cast as we often find parallels between the two couples and how they are something of "elders" that show Ben and Alison what it's like to be parents, working both against and for them. Hell, the entire cast is incredible, the comedic timing is impeccable. And Judd Apatow, the man behind the 40 Year Old Virgin, has created yet another heart-warming laugh riot that is its own creation, not simply a rehash of the 40 Year Old Virgin as some would be led to believe.
GO WATCH THIS MOVIE!