A quick review because I promised Josh I would write one. If you liked The 40-Year-Old Virgin, you’ll probably enjoy Knocked Up. It’s pretty much the same cast with the same style of writing with the same uneven pace throughout. There are great laughs in the film but the film relied too much on a couple of jokes. Too many pot jokes for my taste. I didn’t like it as much as Virgin, to be honest. The biggest problem is that Seth Rogen’s character’s transformation took too long. They make it to week 24 before he realizes she doesn’t like the fact that he’s broke, smokes a ton of pot, and is a bit, uh, vulgar in public. And then, in the last 12 weeks, he suddenly realizes what’s wrong and changes everything about his life. It’s forgivable, because his being normal kind of ruins the foundation of most of the humor.
So, go see it if you liked Virgin. You could wait until it comes out on DVD, though, because it didn’t seem to benefit from the crowd much at all.
June 16th, 2007 at 11:03 am
…And the contrast review:
I liked it. I wouldn’t say that I loved it and it was amazing — but I liked it. It was a very non-traditional love story, much like Virgin was, but it was also quite different. I’d agree that Rogan’s character took an almost unbelievable turn for the more fatherly, and yet, that’s what we call suspension of disbelief. I bought that the mother-to-be saw through a lot of facade and that she frankly would want to see the good in the father of her child. Granted –it’s a movie, so it will be a little over the top as well.
Go see it and judge for yourself. Here’s my theater litmus-test: I don’t necessarily care about the full audience zeitgeist, because that is rare — usually only on an opening night — if a movie can really hold my engagement throughout so that I don’t start thinking about other things — then it has been pretty successful. That is often not the case for me during action-packed films…
June 16th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
I did like it, just not as much as 40 year old virgin. Didn’t mean to leave a negative impression. It’s just not a MUST see in the theater.