For the life of me, I don't understand why I have heard several media types call Knocked Up a sleeper hit. Anybody with a pulse who saw it before it was released could have predicted that it would make a lot of money. Maybe not Spiderman 3, Ari Gold hug-it-out-bitch money, but a lot of money. It stars a pretty young thing (Katherine Heigl) who I understand is also the star of a ridiculously successful television show. It's directed by the same guy (Judd Apatow) who directed The 40 Year Old Virgin, and it stars many of the same people (Paul Rudd, Seth Rogan, Leslie Mann, etc.). It's got a cute, feel-good plot. And it's very, very funny. As one could probably imagine from the title and the poster to the left, Alison Scott (Heigl) gets a promotion and goes out with her sister (Mann) to celebrate. There she meets Ben Stone, and the two consume an obscene amount of alcohol on the way to a one-night stand. Of course, she gets pregnant. Of course, he's an unemployed Canadian stoner illegally in the country with a bunch of similarly-situated friends. Of course, hilarity ensues. This might not be the greatest comedy of all time, but it was just the thing for a Wednesday night when I wasn't in the best of moods.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Wednesday Evening Movie Review
For the life of me, I don't understand why I have heard several media types call Knocked Up a sleeper hit. Anybody with a pulse who saw it before it was released could have predicted that it would make a lot of money. Maybe not Spiderman 3, Ari Gold hug-it-out-bitch money, but a lot of money. It stars a pretty young thing (Katherine Heigl) who I understand is also the star of a ridiculously successful television show. It's directed by the same guy (Judd Apatow) who directed The 40 Year Old Virgin, and it stars many of the same people (Paul Rudd, Seth Rogan, Leslie Mann, etc.). It's got a cute, feel-good plot. And it's very, very funny. As one could probably imagine from the title and the poster to the left, Alison Scott (Heigl) gets a promotion and goes out with her sister (Mann) to celebrate. There she meets Ben Stone, and the two consume an obscene amount of alcohol on the way to a one-night stand. Of course, she gets pregnant. Of course, he's an unemployed Canadian stoner illegally in the country with a bunch of similarly-situated friends. Of course, hilarity ensues. This might not be the greatest comedy of all time, but it was just the thing for a Wednesday night when I wasn't in the best of moods.
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