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Good To Be Knocked Up
Contributed by Lina Lim
Tuesday, 31 July 2007
15 minutes into the movie, Ryan Seacrest, who makes a cameo
appearance, says the golden words, “Why can’t we just cut the crap?” Well, his
wish is my command.
Knocked Up knocked
me out – although not entirely in a good sense. The 2-hour movie stretched my
attention span quite a bit but it made up for it with its hilariously
refreshing take on the usual ‘one night stand with stranger leaves girl
pregnant’ story angle.
In case you’re wondering what I’m ranting about, Knocked Up tells the tale of a night of
harmless fun gone terribly wrong.
Allison Scott (Katherine Heigl) is a 24-year-old
up-and-coming television journalist for entertainment channel, E! To celebrate her
promotion, she and married older sister, Debbie (Leslie Mann), hit a club for a little merrymaking.
There, she meets a sweet and funny guy, Ben Stone (Seth Rogen), who buys her drinks. Flattered and
intent on having fun, she spends the night downing shots with him and in her
drunken stupor, invites him back to her place to do the nasty.
In
their rush to get it on and with Allison unaware, Ben forgoes the rubber and
that folks, as we all know, is how babies and some story plots are hatched (pardon
the pun) in a number of Hollywood productions.
In
the morning, a sober Allison awakes to a tubby and repulsive (imagine hairy man
boobs) Ben. Thinking she’ll never have to see him again, she quickly sends him
on his way. Everything returns to normal until an unsuspecting and mortified
Allison realises she’s pregnant with Ben’s child.
Determined
to keep the baby, as well as make the best of the situation, she tries her best
to involve Ben in the pregnancy – which sees them dating, shopping for a gynecologist and buying baby books
– despite her misgivings over his malingering
lifestyle and his oddball friends.
Debbie,
too, has to deal with her doubts regarding the young couple’s compatibility and
her suspicions about her husband, Pete’s (Paul Rudd), fidelity.
Crude
yet intelligent banter lightens the mood of the movie as the couple tread
issues foreign to them such as pregnancy, love, marriage, adulthood and moral
values. The characters are as endearingly relatable and candid as the talented
actors behind them are amazingly believable.
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Heigl,
who is better known as Izzie on television’s Grey’s Anatomy,
shows that she has the makings to become one of comedy’s sweethearts such as
the adorably cute Amanda Peet. Actors Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd
reunite having worked together in the 2005 hit, The 40-Year-Old Virgin,
which may explain their on-screen chemistry.
Also
an alumnus of The 40-Year-Old Virgin
is writer/director Judd Apatow, who
seems to be able to interpret the confusing relationships between men and women
ingeniously. With Knocked Up, he proves he’s no one-hit wonder.
Knocked Up is a movie with plenty
of laughs and is probably one of the better comedies to come by for a long
time.
Rating:
3.5 out of 5 stars
Movie
Details:
Opens: Jul 26
Running
Time: 130 min
Rating: M18
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Katherine Heigl, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Paul
Rudd
Director: Judd Apathow
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