Knocked Up on DVD (2007)

Absolutely awful

A customer from Leicester, England , 19/09/2007

The premise of this film is based around the antics of the eye stingingly ugly, obnoxious, porcine loser 'Ben' (Seth Rogan), who by sheer dumb luck manages to spark a conversation with 'Alison' (Katherine Heigl), by buying her a beer in a club. He gets her drunk, they go back to her place and eight weeks later, she realises she is pregnant. Given the circumstances, I am surprised that the only thing he managed to pass to her, was just sperm.

What is even more ridiculous, is that Alison attempts to better acquaint herself with this bum and along the way, he and his cohort of bum friends make several obnoxious and not at all funny remarks, based on delusions of grandeur and a psychotic superiority complex. The film ends in a climax of absurdity (they have the baby and live happily ever after).

I cant believe I wasted my money on this amoebic dysentery of a film. It is not at all humorous, nor is it based on real life. Watch it, only if you are a real life 'Ben'.

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Knocked out by its own dialogue

Orion from England [Highly rated reviewer] , 05/01/2008

I'll keep this one short, because the time it takes to read this review is approximately the same amount of your life that you should waste watching this film.

Put simply, the film attempts to rely on a barrage, actually an uninterrupted onslaught of bad language, to make up for its deficiencies, which are total. The plot is ridiculous, unbelievable, badly conceived (excuse the pun), and utterly pathetically acted. The language is the worst that I've heard outside of Eddie Murphy's Raw, which did actually manage to be funny alongside the cursing - whereas this just made me uncomfortable, and wonder if the screenplay had been penned by adolescents?

Avoid.

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Funny as Hell

A customer from London, England , 25/04/2007

This film is a really excellent comedy. If you liked 40 year old virgin you will love this film. A must see.

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class comedy

Georgevader from Chepstow [Highly rated reviewer] , 21/08/2007

Slobby jobless Ben (Set Rogan) can't believe his luck when he meets an attractive charismatic career girl Alison (Katherine Heigel) in a bar, a one night stand and 2 months later and Alison is horrified to learn she is pregnant!

'Knocked Up' starts off as your by numbers 'American Pie' comedy but it soon becomes a very grown up, and very funny 'adult' comedy. When O say adult, I don't mean T&A, this film deals with real relationships and all the troubles and anxieties that they entail.

As well as the charismatic Rogan and Heigel the supporting characters are excellent too,from Bens' stoner mates ('Tell him not to jerk off with a noose around his neck - it's dangerous'), Alison sister and brother in law('You look like Babe Ruth's gay brother... Gabe Ruth') as well as smaller parts, in particular 'Saturday Night Lives'' Kristen Wiig as Jill, a snobby TV executive('We don't like liars in Hollywood')

The film never sags during it's lengthy 2 hour running time, even the trip to Vegas brings in the laughs with a hilarious conversation on magic mushrooms about the amount of chairs in their Hotel room ('Isn't weird how chairs exist even when you're not sitting on them?)

One of the best comedies of the year so far and, well why not, the feel good hit of the Summer!

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Just ok

A customer from Forres , 01/01/2008

Film wasnt as funny as i was expecting it to be. Bit boring - fills some free time if you've got nothing better to do!

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Crude and tasteless

A customer from London , 22/03/2008

Shocking to see how it's ok to bring a baby into a world where your dad smokes alot o pot, has loser pot-smoking crass friends. Very crude, including graphic birth details (nobody should revel in seeing that) and the language is nothing short of ridiculous no-brain vulgarity. Don't even get me started on the lack of story or plot...

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