Knocked Up (2007)

All Critics (232) | Top Critics (48) | Fresh (221) | Rotten (23) | DVD (25)

Ultimately the film says that fate has a way of kicking you up a notch, if you can somehow let yourself rise to the occasion.

September 15, 2007 Full Review

Melissa Anderson

Time Out New York

Top Critic

The year's best comedy; one that confirms the arrival of an extended group of talent that looks set to take the studio comedy crown from the likes of Ferrell, Stiller and Carrey.

August 24, 2007 Full Review

Ben Walters

Time Out

Top Critic

Knocked Up isn't going to help change the world or anything, but at the very least it may help take one's mind off the relentlessly dismal headlines. I don't know what greater service a mere movie can perform these days.

June 6, 2007 Full Review

Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

Top Critic

A refreshingly frank, funny odd-couple comedy with engaging leads and too many belly laughs to count.

June 3, 2007 Full Review

Tom Charity

CNN.com

Top Critic

Hilarious from moment to moment, but leaving behind both a warm glow and a sting. This is a picture that refuses to fetishize either the ability to conceive or the significance of our place in the universe once we've done so.

June 1, 2007 Full Review

Stephanie Zacharek

Salon.com

Top Critic

What makes the movie so winning are its endearing and relatable characters who spout believable dialogue and amusing banter, steeped in clever pop-culture references and sharp observations of human nature.

June 1, 2007 Full Review

Claudia Puig

USA Today

Top Critic

It's a hysterical, well acted, and wonderful glimpse at impending parenthood from a man's perspective...

February 1, 2013 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

It's a movie with heart and with balls, and it knows when to use each of them.

November 3, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

If Apatow was seeking to make a film that's smutty and funny, but also romantic and realistic about relationships, he's succeeded admirably.

July 14, 2011 Full Review

Nick Levine

Digital Spy

It's the funniest, smartest, goofiest, dirtiest, coolest (and longest -- over two hours, in fact) comedy so far this year.

April 4, 2011 Full Review

Dave White

Movies.com

Knocked Up is possibly the best comedy of the year.

July 6, 2010 Full Review | Comments (3)

Mike Barnard

Future Movies UK

A surprisingly sincere look at male-female Mars-Venusness in these 00s. It's funny alright, but not in the way you might think.

July 6, 2010 Full Review

Joe Lozito

Big Picture Big Sound

Apatow's cockeyed Citizen Kane, merging goofball, pothead jokes with a plausible story of unshakable relationship discomfort; a broad mismatch of personalities and body shapes glued together by the cruelty of insemination.

December 28, 2009 Full Review

Brian Orndorf

BrianOrndorf.com

Interesting blend of frat-house smarm and emotional incisiveness

August 27, 2009 Full Review

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

The film seethes with misdirected and unrecognized anger.

April 23, 2009 Full Review

Peter Keough

Boston Phoenix

Knocked Up is like a Hallmark Greeting Card with crude verse. It's is an uneasy mix of ethnic humor, slacker humor, and human drama -- some is amusing, some is indulgent, and some is strained.

February 2, 2009 Full Review | Comments (13)

Tony Macklin

Fayetteville Free Weekly

A pleasant enough comedy that doesn't take the "gross out" too far and presents a complex, if egotistical view of pregnancy and responsibility.

September 30, 2008 Full Review

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

Apatow simply knows funny when he sees it, and he gives his actors' ample opportunity to plumb all possible comic depths.

August 25, 2008 Full Review

Heather Huntington

ReelzChannel.com

Knocked Up really comes alive when it has something to say about the thorny responsibilities -- and unexpected blessings -- of adult relationships.

August 7, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

Jonathan Kiefer

Sacramento News & Review

For all its avowed interest in life -- as in, you know, the biological imperatives of our existence -- its characters seem acquainted only with television.

May 10, 2008 Full Review

Thomas Peyser

Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)

Apatow's talent for accurately portraying his generation at their most self-absorbed doesn't quite go as far at justifying the script's patchy, haphazard conflicts at it does toward explaining the film's bloated running time.

May 10, 2008 Full Review

Eric Henderson

When Canses Were Classeled

everything about it is great

April 24, 2008 | Comments (2)

Stefan Birgir Stefansson

sbs.is

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April 10, 2008 Full Review

Dragan Antulov

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• 1. Pete: Marriage is like an unfunny, tense version of 'Everybody Loves Raymond'.
  – Submitted by Zeldagne L (2 months ago)
• 1. Ben Stone: [watching Cheaper by the Dozen after taking mushrooms] This isn't funny. This guy's got twelve kids, that's not funny. That's a lot of responsibility to just be... laughing about. This is sick. This is a sick movie. I gotta turn this off. It's freaking me out.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Sadie: I Googled murder.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Ben Stone: You know how they say to never drink and drive? Well, never drink and bone.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Debbie: He spelled "coming" wrong. Oh that's "cu... Oh that's gross!
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
• 1. Martin: Do you ever get so bored, you just stare at your balls?
  2. Jonah: I bet you do, late John Lennon.
  – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)