Knocked Up (2007)

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	Year of first release: 2007
	Director: Judd Apatow (The 40 Year-Old Virgin)
	Actors: Seth Rogen (Zack and Miri make a Porn), Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Jason Segel (11:14, How I met your mother TV-series), Jay Baruchel (The Sorcerer's Apprentice), Jonah Hill (21 & 22 Jump Street), Alan Tudyk (Firefly TV-series)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Comedy, Romance
	Conditions of visioning: 29.09.2014, HD VOD, Home cinema
Synopsis: After a celebration night, the young TV-hostess Allison (Heigl) gets pregnant from the one-night-stand jobless stoner Ben (Rogen).
Review:  This is the first movie I watch from Jude Apatow. I heard about the similarities of his style with the one of Kevin Smith in Too Fat for 40, learning that contrary to Smith, Apatow's movies make a lot of money because he stays within some boundaries that Smith easily crosses. The example was that the humour can be gross in Apatow's movies but not as far as the Donkey show in Smith's Clerks 2. Indeed Knocked Up is a Comedy in which the jokes are rather vulgar and sometimes fall out-of-place in an otherwise classic Romance. The solid and realistic romantic story is also sprinkled with geek references (cinema, Internet, SF, ...), making it look like a (rather well-done) mix of genre purposefully done so to please many audiences (guys, women, geeks, teenagers and adults alike). Another thing: before even watching the movie I noticed that 2h10 is very long for a Comedy, and indeed the pace is quite slow, sometimes too slow, and the jokes not as punchy as they could be. All of this to say that I still prefer Smith's style, but Knocked Up didn't displease me. It is also funny to watch the bunch of new comedians that now appear in several Apatow movies and many others, and that were reunited in This is the End. There are also short cameos from Steve Carel (Crazy, Stupid, Love) and James Franco (Spiderman 1-3) among others.
Rating: 6 /10