Saturday, February 16, 2008

Notes on "Knocked Up"

Knocked Up is a romantic comedy that starts out with an accidental pregnancy between a successful entertainment reporter and a slacker. It is weighted down so much by the ballast needed to make the premise somewhat credible that it plods along. By contrast, 40 Year Old Virgin, also written and produced by Judd Apatow and featuring a number of the same team, made its premise believable in the first minutes that Steve Carell was on the screen and the movie floated on air.

- J

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