Knocked Up

By: Martyn Pedler
Date: 5th Jul 07
Format: Cinema
Mood: Leave brain at home

What:
Knocked Up

Where:
Everywhere

When:
From July 5

Watch the trailer:
here

Win:
To giveaway, we have 5 double passes to Knocked Up valid for the season. Just email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘knock my bitch up’.

Someone needs to put Kevin Smith on suicide watch, because Knocked Up is the film he’s been trying to make for years. He fails because he can’t balance his bawdy comedy with anything like actual emotion. (Or,in Clerks 2, anything like actual humans.)

The man behind the surprisingly sweet The 40 Year Old Virgin and the much-loved (and cancelled after a single season) TV series Freaks and Geeks has shown Smith how to do it right in this new comedy juggernaut. Byperfectly blending smut with heartfelt romantic mispairings, Judd Apatow has created a cinematic smart bomb. It simultaneously targets different audience demographics – male/female; indie/blockbuster;highbrow/lowbrow – without compromising the film as a whole.

Quotable catchphrases are becoming the death of comedy, and the best thing about Apatow's Knocked Up is that his improvised style doesn’t demand you VOTE FOR PEDRO. There’s nothing here that you’ll see on a T-shirtin three months’ time. In fact, there are few actual punchlines – just genuine characters dealing with difficult situations using profane charm, bong-jokes and good faith.