Knocked Up [Blu-ray]

I love Knocked Up!

Great second movie for Apatow! Same humor and evolves some too!

Writer/director Judd Apetow is building his own franchise and making a real name for himself with his high quality comedies with his unique special brand of humor and great casting. SUPERBAD does seem to be the most popular thus far but KNOCKED UP is in the same league for me.Story line is pretty basic. We have an average stoner guy and a beautiful professional woman who meet at a bar, get drunk, have sex and she gets pregnant. In real life such different types of people may not try to make a relationship work but here it is very believable and the development of each character about life, love and acceptance is very realistic as the pregnancy develops. Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogen are in top form as their lives are forever altered. Dialogue is funny, circumstances are realistic and having the marriage of Heigl's sister to compare with works great. Paul Rudd shines here and steals all the scenes he is in.This is a bawdy comedy but manages to put across positive messages about safe sex, responsibility and the fact that relationships can be difficult. It is not a message film by any means but it manages to spread a good positive vein about life and its complications.Blu ray usually is put to its best use with action films or films with great cinematography which show how the 1080p can be brilliant and how audio can transcend. Comedies can sometimes appear bland on blu ray but this film is crisp, colors are vibrant and video and audio are both at levels above that of the regular dvd. There is much talk of this movie being too long. For me it was not. You will either love it or you won't. For me it had a purpose in the length and the character development also warranted it.I highly recommend the blu ray version of this film as well as the film itself.

With "40 Year Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up" director-writer Jud Apitow has created a new and exhiliarating genre, profanely scatalogical modern morality comedies. Here, Ben (Seth Rogen), an immature pot-smoker who operates a pornographic website, has to confront adulthood when he impregnates Allison (Katherine Heigl) an upright (uptight?) attractive TV entertainment personality. Given the circumstances, it is plausible that these two could have had one night of wild abandon. Apatow's accomplishment here is to have us believe that Allison would accept this loser as the father of her child and make the best of an unfortunate situation. Despite Allison's Herculean efforts to rehab Ben she eventually throws in the towel. By doing that Ben has to now confront the choices he's made in life. Apatow's premise wouldn't work if the main actors didn't have chemistry or didn't believe in the set-up. Major kudos have to go out to Rogen and mainly Heigl for making the story believable. Apatow also offers a paralell story involving Allison's sister and brother-in law played by Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd who after three kids they find their marriage in a bit of a rut. Apatow has some prescient observations about marriage that ring very true. On a final note, probably my favorite scene is one where a very pregnant Allison and her sister are denied admission to a swanky club. Allison's sister then browbeats the bouncer for the offence. What's hysterical about this scene is how the bouncer responds in measured tones that leaves the sister's jaw on the floor.

This comedy is about as casual and as laid back as a comedy can get. I had no qualms watching KNOCKED UP in my underwear; heck, most of the cast is in their underwear (or less) throughout the duration of the film. How laid back, you ask? Well, consider this: We are introduced to five maturity-challenged males, all living together (now that's a lot of socks on the floor). Their goal, when they're not drunk or high, is to launch a celebrity skin website. Talk about high aspirations. But all is derailed when one of them, Ben (a disheveled Seth Rogen), gets lucky enough to score a one nightstand with Alison (Katherine Heigl), who is one hot babe; yet the result is an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy, throwing Ben and Alison together in a fragile relationship one can only call. . .tumultuous.Rogen and Heigl are solid, and are backed by "40-Year-Old Virgin" vets Leslie Mann and Paul Ruud (who, as always, is hilarious); yet the scene stealers, time and time again, are Ben's grungy roommates (Jay, Jonah, Jason, and Martin). When these guys get together to ad lib a scene, mayhem reigns supreme. Alas, all the improvisation is also the movie's downside, as it tends to bog down the story and make it uncomfortably rough around the edges. There's a sweet spot (Ben and Alison's budding love, and of course, a little baby) at the heart of this story; all the bloviating and spontaneous ranting makes it hard to reach it.As this is the unrated two-disc collector's edition, we have extra features out the wazzoo: Extended scenes, deleted scenes, video diaries--and way, way, too much of writer-producer Judd Apatow. A must-see is a deleted scene featuring Jonah Hill going off on a rant over the film "Brokeback Mountain"; another is an extended scene of the diminutive, yet feisty, Dr. Kuni (a real-life doc, by the way) taking charge of Alison's delivery. That's some funny stuff, making this edition of KNOCKED UP fun to watch--even if you're just wearing underwear.--D. Mikels, Author, Dawn of the Transcendence

This is a hilarious movie - purchased to rewatch after seeing a clip online. Just as funny as the first time I saw it!