Rude, crude yet funny in places

Rating: 6/10 (23 December 2007)

After getting a promotion at the TV station where she works, Alison (Heigl) celebrates and goes home with jobless Ben (Rogan) and is impregnated by him. Will she keep the baby, will she dump Ben, inquiring minds ask?
There are a lot of explicit sexual content, and F-bombs exploding all over the place and yet, the funny lines and actions do not come from any of that. I found them all to be offensive, embarrassing and annoying and the story would not have suffered if all of that were left out. No, the funny stuff comes from everything other than that. There are some good lines, good acting, and timely facial expressions that are the funny stuff. Okay, okay, when she is in the process of delivering the baby and having a hard time of it, there is a lot of anger, rudeness, crudeness and uninhibited language spewing forth from Alison and the scene was laugh-out-loud funny I have to admit.
This movie showcases Katherine Heigl's acting ranges as she goes through a myriad of emotions and all are quite believable and you care for her. If you didn't care for her then there is no point in watching the rest of the movie. Both Ben and Alison take the pregnancy seriously, but it is Alison that you care for and hope all turns out well for her. Ms Heigl is so beautiful that you are vaguely aware there are others in the scene as you cannot take your eyes off of her. And, this woman can act. Make no mistake about that. Yes, to some she is eye-candy. But eye-candy with a lot of acting talent. Oh, and she has a nice laugh too.
Now, why was this movie made? To let us see Ms Heigl in something other than Grey's Anatomy TV show, of course. Silly question.
Bad language and misguided sexual content aside, the performances of the rest of the cast were excellent.
Violence: No, Sex: Yes, Nudity: No, Language: Tons of it.