Film Review: "Knocked Up"
Wednesday, 14 November 2007 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daI 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.
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.
