Charming

Rating: 9/10 (11 June 2007)

This movie reminds me of my own youth, when I experimented with marijuana and other drugs, and when I lived in an apartment with other irresponsible young males, living week to week, from slender paycheck to slender paycheck. And, then I found a woman, who had a real job and was not content to live on cheap thrills and silly male self-indulgence.
This is the lifestyle, also, of Seth Rogen in this film, when he encounters Katherine Heigl as a young woman, who is celebrating a new job at a bar. Seth, even though he is overweight and not exactly mature, comes on to her. They wind up in bed. Eight weeks later, she calls him with the news that she is pregnant.
Suddenly, Seth has to grow up fast and lose the marijuana habit, so that he can support his woman and his fast-arriving little baby. Like Sleeping Beauty, Seth's maturation, as a potential husband and father, suddenly has to quicken from its long slumber. And, Seth is as amazed as the viewers are, when all these mature feelings suddenly spring to life, like a flower that reaches its time to bloom.
Another touching part of this film is the realistic depiction of pregnancy and childbirth. So soon after another pregnancy film, Waitress, this film focuses, this time, more on the male side of the mating dance, just in time for Father's Day. Don't miss this film, which celebrates fatherhood.