Product Description

The writer and director of The 40-year-old Virgin delivers another a hilarious hit comedy!

They say that opposites attract. Well, for slacker Ben (Seth Rogen) and career girl Alison (Katherine Heigl), that's certainly the case - at least for one intoxicated evening. Two months and several pregnancy tests later, Ben and Alison go through a hysterically funny, anxious and heartwarming journey that leads to huge laughs in the most outrageous comedy of the year!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1339 in DVD
• Brand: HEIGL,KATHERINE
• Released on: 2007-09-25
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 133 minutes

Amazon.com

Unwanted pregnancy might sound like a risky subject for slapstick comedy, but Knocked Up is from writer-director Judd Apatow--so we are in the hands of a man who likes to push things. And like Apatow's predecessor, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up is a shaggy crowd-pleaser, a comedy strewn with vulgarity but with a sweet heart at its center. A one-night stand between the utterly mismatched Ben (Seth Rogen, his first starring role) and Alison (Katherine Heigl) results in said pregnancy, and the two people reunite for mutual support--even though they barely know each other. Ben's a slob who lives with four other guys, all of whom share the same stunted approach to maturity; Alison is a new on-air personality at the E! channel. That these two eventually develop a shared understanding and affection is perhaps the movie's biggest stretch (some of the male-humor jokes amongst the guys are idiotic enough to test anybody's hope of civilizing them).

Rogen and Heigl don't really jump off the screen, but, to be fair, the movie frequently needs them to play straight while the supporting cast cuts up. Virgin vets Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd are around to supply some humor, as Alison's sister and brother-in-law, and the four idiots who live with Ben (Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Jason Siegel, and Martin Starr) are in their own zone of sophomoric bad taste. Still, by 40-Year-Old Virgin standards, this movie doesn't explode, and it sometimes feels ramshackle to the point of not being thought out. Apatow's indulgence of actors creates some fine moments (Paul Rudd seems to have most of them), but it can also make a movie feel flabby, and this one is overlong by the length of a belly. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews

Most overrated film in years
"Knocked Up," starring Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl as lead characters light years beyond realistic compatibility, who, through the magic of unrealistic screenwriting that bafflingly passes itself as plausible (because it can), come together. She is a beautiful ON-AIR reporter for E! Entertainment Network (implausibly plucked from her job as floor director, but that's a whole different ridicularity), and he is a low-brow, unemployed, illegal alien Canadian slacker who somehow pays rent, buys marijuana, beer and about $100 of new books at Barnes & Noble - all on a $450 annual budget. Yes, that's right. He's stretched $13,900 of a $14,000 personal injury settlement over seven years, and estimates the last $900 will get him two more.

Writer/Director Judd Apatow might've had something here had he written these characters as slightly less than quantum galaxies apart, in income, sophistication, looks, talent and ambition. Perhaps she could have remained a floor director at E!, a sufficiently glamorous job, and he a part-time clerk at a Blockbuster store while working on his celebrity movie nude-scene website (don't ask) in his spare time. Throw in some very graphic and uncomfortable sex scenes, a poorly written sister/brother-in-law dynamic that is strewn with holes, the fact there is no second act at all (or was it no third act?), roundly unimpressive acting performances, and well, and you're left with nothing. Actually, SNL's Kristen Wiig is very funny as an uptight, disapproving E! producer, but that's about it. NO for theater, NO for pay-per-view, NO for rental. MAYBE when it hits TNT. In three years. If it's a slow day.

loved it!
Wow, some of you people need to lighten up! This movie is very funny and gets even funnier the more I watch it. I didn't expect it to be as funny as it is. Yes, it's vulgar in some parts, so I wouldn't want the kids to see it, but if you are over 21 you should be able to handle it.
I do however agree that in real life, a beautiful woman like Allison falling for a guy like Ben is a hard sell, but since when do movies ever represent reality? The scene at the nightclub with the doorman is simply hysterical. I give it two, very enthusiastic thumbs up. :)

Love it
This is such a great movie...I saw it twice at the theatre, and I cant wait to get the DVD!