Funny but thoughtful as well

Rating: 7/10 (31 August 2010)

I had been meaning to watch "Knocked Up" for a while so I was somewhat disappointed that it wasn't as good as I expected it to be. I thought that "The 40 year old Virgin", made by the same Judd Apatow team, was hilarious in parts. They are plenty of funny moments in "Knocked Up" but not as many laugh out loud moments as the script takes an at-times reflective look at modern relationships.
The story is simple. Overweight slacker Ben (Seth Rogen) meets stunning career girl Alison (Katherine Heigl) in a club when both are on drunken nights out. They have sex but she decides in the morning that one night was plenty. When she later discovers she's pregnant she decides to keep the baby and contacts him to tell him the news. They decide to try to make their relationship succeed for the sake of the baby.
The film has a lot of thoughtful moments, as the new couple work out whether the relationship has a chance. However there are plenty of moments of gross out humour to lighten the mood, mostly involving Ben's dissolute housemates.
There is a secondary storyline involving Alison's sister. She is having marriage trouble and this gives the younger couple food for thought as they decide on what they want to do. Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd are good as the wife and husband. The supporting performances are also good with plenty of familiar faces such as Jonah Hill, Jason Siegl and Jay Baruchel