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The boys behind The 40-Year-Old Virgin are back
KNOCKED UP: Written and direct-
ed by Judd Apatow. Cinematography,
Eric Alan Edwards. Music by Joe Henry
and Loudon Wainwright III. Starring
Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd
and Leslie Mann. Universal Pictures,
2007. R. 129 minutes. 44421
F
ans of Judd Apatow’s The 40-Year-
Old Virgin finally have something to
celebrate. Rumored for years to be
the funniest man in Hollywood, Apatow is ar-
guably its hardest-working comic, having
written for Freaks and Geeks and The Larry
Sanders Show, produced The Cable Guy and
Talladega Nights and acted in NewsRadio and
Anchorman. Like God or WMD, Apatow has
been everywhere and nowhere, a situation he
Debbie’s easygoing husband. So they all
chalk it up to youthful indiscretion and go on
with their former lives, until Alison contracts
a deadly vomiting virus or — more impossi-
bly — she happens to be pregnant.
Knocked Up probably sounds like your
typically raunchy comedy, which in many
ways it is. But compared to, say, Blades of
Glory, Knocked Up is a revelation. That’s be-
cause Apatow’s screenplay doesn’t settle for
innuendo, insults and ignorance, which are
what pass for jokes in most comedies today.
If comedies are mountains, these elements
are the equivalent of base camp; Apatow uses
them as starting-off points before setting out
for higher elevation. Knocked Up is gross and
sometimes offensive, to be sure. The title
alone reveals that much. But it’s also a sharp
Knocked Up should bring Judd Apatow
the credit he deserves.
intended to remedy when The 40-Year-Old
Virgin — his directorial debut — was released
in 2005. But after a lengthy and persuasive
marketing campaign (and what may be the
greatest promotional poster of all time), The
40-Year-Old Virgin didn’t deliver. Instead, it
was a sloppy and sometimes mean-spirited af-
fair with all the polish of improvised sketch
comedy. Knocked Up, Apatow’s second film,
doesn’t make the same mistake, which should
bring Apatow the credit he deserves.
In Knocked Up, gorgeous Alison
(Katherine Heigl) has just landed a job at the
E! network, which puts her well beyond the
reach of dumpy Ben (Seth Rogen), an unem-
ployed stoner who’s developing a porn web-
site. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, so
Hollywood detests a romance between
equals, and so it is that Alison takes Ben
home for the night after a few too many cock-
tails. The next morning, Ben is elated; as far
as he’s concerned, he just won the lottery.
Alison, on the other hand, can’t hide her dis-
appointment, nor can Debbie (Leslie Mann),
Alison’s uptight sister, and Pete (Paul Rudd),
and highly verbal movie that still manages to
be sweet. We actually care about what hap-
pens to Ben and Pete when, late in the second
act, they’re jettisoned by Alison and Debbie.
Distraught, the men do what men do to sur-
vive: They go to Vegas and eat magic mush-
rooms.
Knocked Up is far from perfect. The en-
dorsement deals are ridiculously conspicu-
ous, including three references to a film in
theaters as we speak. (That kind of cross-film
promotion is a first, and the egregiousness of
it really bothers me.) The last third of
Knocked Up lags a little as it tries to tie up
loose ends. But there are more than enough
indelible moments before this, including
pregnant sex, the Vegas trip mentioned above
and a profanity-laced tirade from the mouth
of Ryan Seacrest. In fact, the first two-thirds
of Knocked Up is so funny that it serves as an
unintended rebuke of the films Apatow’s pals
have been making for years. If Starsky &
Hutch had been half this funny, Ben Stiller
wouldn’t have to take jobs like Night at the
Museum.
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