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Date Posted: 14:03:45 04/20/07 Fri
Author: Hugh Jazz (horny)
Subject: Knocked Up advance screening

I caught an advance screening of Judd Apatow’s latest “Knocked Up”. The movie started about 5 minutes late with no previews or introduction, so I’m not quite sure what I saw was a finished product. A couple of rough spots, some chopping editing and bad sound leads me to believe that it might not have been, but without being told, I can’t say for certain.

First, I absolutely LOVED Apatow’s “The 40 Year Old Virgin” and I consider it to be the funniest movie I’ve seen this decade. I also am a big fan, big fan of Apatow’s criminally treated FOX sitcom “Undeclared” and I always thought “Celtic Pride” was underrated. I’m kidding, “Celtic Pride” blew. Hard. ANY-way, I went into the film with high expectations and I wasn’t disappointed. I certainly didn’t feel like I wanted to punch myself in the face, which is pretty much how I felt after I saw Celtic Pride.

Knocked Up stars Katherine Heigl (of Grey’s Anatomy fame) as Alison Scott, a freshly promoted on-camera personality for the E! channel and Apatow brother-in-arms Seth Rogen as Ben Stone, a perpetually-stoned slacker living off his mail-truck accident settlement trying to break into the lucrative naked-celebrity website business. Also onboard are Apatow regulars, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Jay Baruchel and Jason Segel.

The movie follows Heigl as she celebrates her new on-air promotion by getting drunk and having a one-night stand with Rogen, which leads to the title of the movie. The movie is basically them trying to see if they are compatible and if they should even be together. The bottom line is Heigl is way out of Rogen’s league in every which way, but she seems to want to do the right thing. It follows The 40 Year Old Virgin blueprint and does its best to get you emotionally involved. It’s not just a raunchy comedy, but has a heart. Yes, there are naked boobs, girls using the C-word, gratuitous pot-smoking and more F-bombs than a pissed off Lily Tomlin, but Apatow really wants you to care that these 2 strangers can make this work.

It is a funny movie. Not gut-busting in the way The 40 Year Old Virgin was, but still very funny. The dialogue between Rogen and his friends is great and the movie does well with the various celebrity cameos (with Ryan Seacrest and Steve Carrell playing themselves as real standouts). SNL’s Kristen Wiig does well in a small part, too. Finally, Paul Rudd is terrific. I love this guy. I couldn’t wait for Rudd and Rogen to revisit their Virgin and they have a couple of exchanges that do not disappoint.

This was my first taste of Katherine Heigl (I don’t watch Grey’s) and she didn’t bother me. It did bother me that in both of her sex scenes she leaves her bra on. This movie is rated R, bust out those cans for Christ’s sake. Seriously, Heigl needed to put those babies on the glass. What kind of chick has sex with her bra on anyway? TWICE?!? Better question, what kind of guy allows a woman with that kind of body to keep it on during the act? A complete and utter disappointment in line with when Leslie Easterbrook’s Lt. Callahan kept her bra on in the first Police Academy.

I thought the movie ran a little long; a little bit over 2 hours. The last 20 minutes about the actual delivery of the baby probably could be – to borrow a phrase – a little tighter. The editing was very choppy, especially from scene to scene, which is why I think I might not have seen a finalized print. The sound cut during dialogue at least a dozen times and there were plenty of boom shots. Of course, those can also easily be blamed on the projectionist. Lastly, I also could have done without the 3 – count ‘em – shots of the crowning of the baby’s head. Not needed.

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