Normally, at this point on a Tuesday Night is Film Night night, my head is full of words and phrases to describe the evenings' movie presentation. Tonight however, I am lacking any kind of lexical linguistics, or readable references.
Knocked Up. Thumbs down.
OK, let us not be too harsh. The film follows the lives of Alison Scott & Ben Stone, played by the lovely Katherine Heigl (she was in 27 Dresses a recent TNiFN film) and Seth Rogen. For whatever reason they end up having a one night stand. Which dear reader I am sure you can deduce from the title of the film, left Alison pregnant.
What follows is how these two unconnected very different people cope with the pregnancy. And this is where I see this film was weak, it tried to mix to film genres, that of the Chick Flick and that of the Dick Flick (film where guys dick around)! Hey, it rhymes.
Ben and his mates fool around, smoke weed, and document nudity within films for a website! Whilst swearing a lot, Too much in fact. Don't get me wrong, the well placed expletive has meaning in films, but this was the flagrant use of the 'F' word which didn't prove anything within the context of the story.
Back to the point, oh yes mixing genres, Ben had his boys, whilst Alison had the the girls and the kids, so we have a chick flick going on as well. And for me, this mixing of the genres watered down the story, which was pretty thin anyway.
So we then witness the ups and downs of a relationship that is based on a one night stand. There is a sub plot, which follows the relationship of Alison's Sister; Debbie (Leslie Mann) and Pete (Paul Rudd) and draws parallels with Ben and Alison, but it's all a bit wishy washy.
It's also 129 minutes long, which probably accounts for it being so perceivably weak. A bit more harsh editing may have been required.
The laughs were few and far between, the dialogue was disappointing, the storyline was feeble, all in all it hasn't been one of the better films.
In summation; good in parts, poor for the rest.
Darn! I should start doing a rating for each film. Knocked Up is a 5 out of 10.
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