{"id":743,"date":"2007-06-06T15:09:51","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T15:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/06\/06\/knocked-up\/"},"modified":"2007-06-06T15:09:51","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T15:09:51","slug":"knocked-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/06\/06\/knocked-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Knocked Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Knocked<\/a>After reading early raves<\/a> over the last couple of months I finally got around to seeing Knocked Up<\/strong><\/a> last night.<\/p>\n

For those of you unfamiliar, it is the new comedy from writer-director Judd Apatow<\/a> who made the The 40 Year Old Virgin<\/a> back in 2005.<\/p>\n

This film shares some of the same actors (Seth Rogan<\/a>, Paul Rudd<\/a>) and themes of the earlier film (e.g. relationships, people struggling to grow up) but, most importantly, contains a similar laugh count.<\/p>\n

It might not be the out and out comedic masterpiece some are hailing it as<\/a>, but it is easily the best mainstream comedy of the past year.<\/p>\n

The premise is quite simple: a lazy slacker (Rogan) gets an attractive TV reporter (Katherine Heigl<\/a>) pregnant after a one night stand and they have to deal with each other after both decide to have the baby.<\/p>\n

What’s impressive is that Apatow not only creates likeable main characters but also manages to avoid the pitfalls mainstream comedies fall in to. Although the R-rating<\/a> and a couple of scenes near the end might see it get tagged as a “gross out” comedy, it is much smarter than that.<\/p>\n

A lot of the humour comes from the stark differences between the two leads, some sly pop culture references (a gag about Total Recall<\/a> went down particularly well at the screening last night) and the refreshingly irreverent approach to relationships and marriage.<\/p>\n

The film has been playing really well at test screenings<\/a> in the States and last weekend it took a significant bite out of Pirates 3’s haul<\/a>. Judging from that early box office, the rave reviews<\/a> and the belly laughs last night I think this is going to be the big sleeper hit this summer.<\/p>\n

Knocked Up is out now in the US and opens in the UK on August 24th<\/em><\/p>\n

> Official site<\/a>
\n> Check out the reviews for Knocked Up at Metacritic<\/a>
\n> IMDb entry for Knocked Up<\/a>
\n> Find out more about Judd Apatow at Wikipedia
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After reading early raves over the last couple of months I finally got around to seeing Knocked Up last night. For those of you unfamiliar, it is the new comedy from writer-director Judd Apatow who made the The 40 Year Old Virgin back in 2005. This film shares some of the same actors (Seth Rogan, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}