Knocked Up

Judd Apatow proves why he is one of the revered filmmaker demi-gods despite the overly long runtime (for the genre). This is because of his incredible sense of creating parallels between the viewers’ own lives, wherein finding "one’s own thing" is not all that much of a problem. Despite the flurry of vulgarities and low humor, it works. This is especially thanks to Rogen's sympathetically civil charisma of a sweaty redneck and Heigl's ability to make even the most emotional moments believable. The ending is beautiful. (08/28/2009)

Judd Apatow confirmed his genius to me with this amazing film and, most importantly, disproved the myth that a great romantic comedy (even if at times it wasn't that funny) doesn't need to have a frugal running time "for the sake of its own success" if there’s a how and a what to tell. I probably would have snickered if someone had told me I would love a two-hour comedy (mostly a comedy.:)) whose central theme is unplanned conception. But Knocked Up isn't just any comedy, it's first and foremost a wonderfully human story with an well developed script in which two seemingly completely different people (sometimes hilariously, sometimes bitterly) who have very little in common gradually find their way to each other. Seth Rogen's fecal humor is brilliantly contrasted here with the delicacy of Katherine Heigl, who is wonderfully endearing in her sudden pregnancy and impossible not to love. The absolute pinnacle of the "romantic comedy" genre for the last 10 years. (05/18/2013)

What if this man got you pregnant? Although Knocked Up doesn’t offend me in any way, and in its genre I even liked it, I am rather horrified that this type of routineer humor might well dictate the trend across the Pond for the next few years. To start with, Apatow isn’t Kevin Smith. Apatow also tries to make pop-culture references and “coolly crude" talk almost anywhere, but where Smith uses these ingredients to impart something or at least for entertainment, Apatow throws out random references to a movie/TV show/game or the word “fuck" and carries on with something else. Nothing comes of them, they lead nowhere and the movie would give exactly the same impression even without them. Luckily Knocked Up isn’t purely a comedy. Basically a classic romantic genre piece where, to lighten things up, we have a couple of characters who stir up the otherwise rather serious waters. The cast is pleasant and so in the end what harms the picture most is the over-ambitious length. Some scenes are just crying out to be cut. An ideal movie for a date. Both of you will find something you like about it, you’ll have fun and you’ll have enough time to devote to other activities without really missing anything happening on the screen. (10/04/2007)

Ambitious, but at the same time objectionable in its clumsiness. It can be overlooked that a beautiful girl starts with an unknown unsympathetic weirdo, but not the development of their relationship. Confessions come in a very forceful way and the comical situations do not at all correspond to the current mood. In addition, the only character that one can identify with is the been-upon Alison. The main hero is a boorish ignorant, who can ruin everything and still has a sense of victory. The script doesn't make it any easier for him at all, because he is given a gang of unfunny druggies as friends, who only leer and desperately make remarks. Apatow I take mercy on mostly because I endured this sweaty endeavor for more than two hours, occasional chuckles (De Niro's shoes) and the beautiful Katherine. (10/18/2007)

There can never be enough good comedies, and to not criticize Katherine Heigl too much, she did quite well in this role. But mainly because she had a great partner. Seth Rogen is one of those actors who are vulgar, their comedies are not kind, but rather rough, they are obscene and unfiltered. The movie "Zbouchnutá" is exactly like that, where a bit - actually a big dose - of alcohol leads to two people getting together, not using protection, and voila, they are expecting a baby. What is the sobering realization when she finds out that the father of her future child is a bit of a dirty pig, about whom she wouldn't even lean on with an umbrella when sober. But in the end, they somehow make it work, they prepare for the baby, they argue with each other properly, but then everything turns out fine. I know, the ending is a bit cliché, but what can you do. The jokes in the movie are good, maybe it's a bit long, but otherwise it's one of the better comedies we've seen in a while. More: http://www.filmovy-denik.cz/2012/04/bruce-clint-simon-david-zbouchnuta-v.html (02/17/2013)