Film Review: "Knocked Up"

I guess d. just posted his review of Knocked Up as well; I haven't read his, and I apologize for any duplication. I'll keep it short. :)

This was a cringe-humour, toilet-humour, popular movie- that I liked. It had intelligence behind the embarrassing jokes, and that seems to have made the difference.

It also turns out to be an adorable romantic comedy and the male lead turns into a responsible guy by the end, without making the movie feel at all hackneyed.

Midway there's a scene that made the movie for me, with a dejected bouncer, which goes from too-much-cringe to really funny in just an instant.

It reminds me a bit of "I (heart) Huckabees", in the way it merges all the genres together and comes up with something better than you might expect.