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Ben is surprised after having a one-nighter with Alison to gets a call from her saying she was pregnant. Now they are going to try dating to discover if they are meant for each other. It becomes obvious that they are not the soul mates they had hoped they might be. Now what are they going to do?
Comedy - While the raunchy sexual material makes the film's R-rating
well-deserved, this film has more than male appeal but strong female
and date movie appeal, making it a wide-ranging adult appeal
film--it's funny, it's bawdy, but it's also romantic and sweet.
Seth Rogen YOU, ME AND DUPREE Katherine Heigl THE RINGER, VALENTINE, BRIDE OF CHUCKY Paul Rudd THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN, THE CIDER HOUSE RULES Leslie Mann STEALING HARVARD, GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE Dir/Prod/Wri:Judd Apatow THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN
Berardinelli, Internet CriticFull Review Very Good The often ribald humor is genuinely funny. The characters are endearing. And there's something warm and sweet about the underlying storyline.
USA TodayFull Review Very Good Knocked Up cleverly mines laughs from recognizable places. Though the subjects are familiar, the comedy is original and never predictable.
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Moviegoer Opinions:
Based on a theater exit polling of 258 moviegoers:
TEENS:LOVED IT! A few of the females were a bit disappointed but most thought it was great. Highly Recommended!
TWENTYSOMETHINGS:With approximately three-quarters rating it "Very Good" to "Fantastic" your probability of enjoying "Knocked Up" is very high. There were a fair number who rated it average and below average, but only a few didn't enjoy it at all. Easily recommended.
ADULTS:The adult opinions indicate a movie most enjoyed quite a bit but didn't love. For a simple comedy like "Knocked Up" I believe that's totally acceptable and expected. Approximately three-quarters of the males and better than half of the females rated it "Very Good" or higher, which is great. Most of the remaining opinions indicate an average to below average movie with very few actually disliking it. Easily recommended.
Allison Scott (Heigl) is an up-and-coming entertainment journalist whose 24-year-old life is on the fast track. But it gets seriously derailed when a drunken one-nighter with slacker Ben Stone (Rogen) results in an unwanted pregnancy. Faced with the prospect of going it alone or getting to know the baby's father, Allison decides to give the lovable doof a chance.
An overgrown kid who has no desire to settle down, Ben learns that he has a big decision to make with his kid's mom-to-be: will he hit the road or stay in the picture? Courting a woman you've just Knocked Up, however, proves to be a little difficult when the two try their hands at dating. As they discover more about one another, it becomes painfully obvious that they're not the soul mates they'd hoped they might be.
With Allison's harried sister Debbie (Mann) and hen-pecked brother-in-law Pete (Rudd) the only parenting role models the young lovers have, things get even more confusing. Should they raise the baby together? What makes a happy lifetime partnership after all? A couple of drinks and one wild night later, they've got nine confusing months to figure it out...
