“Knocked Up” (2007)
As part of a recent Role Models-inspired resurgence of my crush on Paul Rudd, I re-watched Knocked Up for the first time since I saw it in theaters. Hilarious if you’re a fan of the painful/funny Judd Apatow brand of humor. This reverse Cinderella story is overly long, but not obnoxiously so.
I made inroads into the even-more overly long extras on the 2-disc DVD. Thus far, I found Line-o-Ramas, Gag Reels, Roller Coaster documentary, Finding Ben Stone, and Director’s Video diary to be funny and worthwhile. Not worthwhile: Directing the Director; Gummy: The Sixth Roommate; Kuni files; Stripper Confidential. I think I’m going to dive into the rest, as a number of reviews say that the commentary is hilarious, and the extended scenes are worth watching.
January 12th, 2009 at 11:46 am
I think that the pink eye scene is one of the funniest in the movie. Sadly, I never got to see the ending. I was watching this on a long flight to LA, and the plane’s video system kept crashing. When they would re-boot (which took about 15 minutes each time, probably 5 times) you could only FF (and I use that term graciously, as it is almost in real-time!) from the beginning, not scene select so when I finally got to the scene where she goes into labor, it was time to put away our video screens for landing. SOO frustrating. And I have yet to rent it. Still, I laughed out loud in many scenes, causing other passengers around me in first class to shoot me annoyed glances. Nice.