Knocked Up

Knocked Up 2007

★★½ 

I watched this sometime last week, and simply forgot to finish my write-up past a couple of random notes. That’s kind of appropriate, since this movie is unfortunately kinda forgettable. Apatow makes a nice series of vaguely connected comedy set pieces, and it’s all certainly really funny. But there’s not much here.

There’s a slew of memorable supporting performances here that take some of the pressure off of Heigl and Rogen to carry the movie. I could spend a paragraph just listing their names. Even Apatow’s kids are pretty funny in a couple roles that could have fallen flat. Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann stand out the most, and that’s not much of a shock considering they got their spin-off-quel This is 40.

There are really no stakes as the movie kind of lumbers to the inevitable conclusion. It’s not really shot particularly well or distinctive from a TV movie. This all sounds like I really hated it, but I guess a movie can get pretty far being just a funny movie with likeable people. It looks like pretty far comes out to about 2.5 out of 5 stars