Knocked Up

New review from The Movie Snob

Knocked Up (C). I can't give this movie the lavish praise that my co-reviewed The Bleacher Bum did, but it's not entirely a waste of time either. The premise is not entirely novel: thanks to a lot of alcohol, a successful and gorgeous TV personality (Katherine Heigl, Grey's Anatomy) has a one-night stand with a flabby slacker (Seth Rogen, The 40-Year Old Virgin). She ends up in the family way and decides to keep the baby and see if she can make it work with the slacker, and we are off to the races in another "can the love of a good woman redeem an unworthy man?" tale. Personally, I did not find the comic bits all that funny, and the movie as a whole was more serious and less crude than I was expecting. In fact, the serious parts were more effective than the comic ones, and I found myself more interested in the subplot about the marital difficulties suffered by the TV star's high-strung sister (Leslie Mann, The 40-Year Old Virgin) and her more laid-back husband (Paul Rudd, The 40-Year Old Virgin). But the subplot disappears from view as the movie drags on for over two hours, which is just too long. Tolerable, but there are better options out there.