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Knocked Up (2007)

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Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 230
Fresh: 208 | Rotten: 22

Knocked Up is a hilarious, poignant and refreshing look at the rigors of courtship and child-rearing, with a sometimes raunchy, yet savvy script that is ably acted and directed.

Average Rating: 7.9/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 39 | Rotten: 3

Knocked Up is a hilarious, poignant and refreshing look at the rigors of courtship and child-rearing, with a sometimes raunchy, yet savvy script that is ably acted and directed.

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When a one-night stand that should have stayed that way has unexpected consequences, the reluctant odd couple attempts to transform their tentative relationship into a lasting love in this conception comedy. Twenty-four-year-old entertainment journalist Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl) is on the fast track to the big time, but an alcohol-fueled hookup with responsibility-shirking slacker Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) finds her professional priorities taking a back seat to having a baby. Now, as overgrown

R, 2 hr. 9 min.

Comedy, Romance

Directed By: Judd Apatow

Written By: Judd Apatow

In Theaters: Jun 1, 2007 Wide

On DVD: Sep 25, 2007

Box Office:$148.7M

Universal

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 Source: New York Observer

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Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

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

June 3, 2007 Full Review Source: CNN.com

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Tom Charity

CNN.com

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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 Source: Salon.com

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Stephanie Zacharek

Salon.com

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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 Source: USA Today

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Claudia Puig

USA Today

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Knocked Up is a different kind of movie, a refreshing mix of the whip smart and the heartfelt.

June 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Peter Howell

Toronto Star

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It's hard enough to find comedies like this at any time, so it's a small and welcome miracle to come upon one in the midst of a typical movie summer, richer than ever in over-budgeted, underwhelming inanities.

June 1, 2007 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine

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Richard Schickel

TIME Magazine

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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 Source: Digital Spy

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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 Source: Movies.com

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Dave White

Movies.com

Knocked Up is possibly the best comedy of the year.

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Future Movies UK

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Mike Barnard

Future Movies UK Source: 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 Source: Big Picture Big Sound

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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 Source: BrianOrndorf.com

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Brian Orndorf

BrianOrndorf.com

Interesting blend of frat-house smarm and emotional incisiveness

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

The film seethes with misdirected and unrecognized anger.

April 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix

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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 Source: Fayetteville Free Weekly

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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 Source: Oscar Guy

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Wesley Lovell

Oscar Guy

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 Source: ReelzChannel.com

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Heather Huntington

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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 Source: Sacramento News & Review

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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 Source: Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)

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Thomas Peyser

Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) Source: 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 Source: When Canses Were Classeled

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Eric Henderson

When Canses Were Classeled

everything about it is great

April 24, 2008 Comments (2)

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April 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Index.hr

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Dragan Antulov

Index.hr

There is always something to smile about and identify with. If you're a slacker, condescending or extremely hormonal this film has someone for you to worship.

March 3, 2008 Full Review Source: The Scorecard Review

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Jeff Bayer

The Scorecard Review

Somehow, some way, Apatow has crafted that rarest of gems -- equal parts heart and crass.

February 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Colorado Springs Gazette

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Brandon Fibbs

Colorado Springs Gazette

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Cute funny movie, just wrong on many occasions in just the right way. I had fun time with this one.

May 9, 2008

John Manard

Super Reviewer

I love Judd Apatow movies because the dialogue is so cuttingly, honestly rib-burstingly funny. I laughed so loud I scared my neighbour's pregnant cat into labour. Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogen are earnest, clunky and so effing good-intentioned in this movie, but it's really the critical harpy sister Leslie Mann and

August 3, 2011

Letitia Lew

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Knocked Up Quotes

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1. Pete: How could Debbie like me? She likes me, she *loves* me. The biggest problem in our marriage is that she wants me around. She loves me so much that she wants me around all the time. That's our biggest problem and I can't even accept that. Like, that upsets me?
– Submitted by Letitia L (2 months ago)
1. Bouncer: It's not cuz you not hot, I would love to tap that ass. I would TEAR THAT ASS UP. I can't let you in cuz you old as f--k. For this club. Not, you know, for the earth. You old, she pregnant, can't have a bunch of old pregnant bitches runnin' around, that's crazy. I'm only allowed to let in 5% black people. He said that, 5%. That mean if there's 25 people here I get to let in one and a quarter black people. So I gotta hope there's a black midget in the crowd.
– Submitted by Letitia L (2 months ago)
1. Himself: Don't let the door hit you in the vagina on the way out.
– Submitted by Eric G (3 months ago)
1. Pete: Looks like your computer has chicken pox.
– Submitted by Horace W (8 months ago)
1. Debbie: [to Ben and Pete at dinner] Hey, I have a really good idea. Why don't the two of you get into your time machine, go back in time and fuck each other.
2. Pete: Who needs a time machine?
– Submitted by Nastassia J (9 months ago)