Country: US
Technical: col 129m
Director: Judd Apatow
Cast: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Harold Ramis
Synopsis:
A TV journalist gets promotion and has a one-night stand with an overweight slacker that ends in pregnancy. With one eye on her sister's household as their ambivalent guide through the travails of parenthood, they must decide to what extent they are going to face the coming storm together.
Review:
Vulgar, profane, obnoxious would-be comedy about commitment, which manages to get gross-out humour in there for good measure. Having started from the absurd premise that a Californian doll would bed a pimply loudmouth, we must then sit by and presumably smile as he shouts all manner of hurtful misogyny at her until he realizes his sensitive inner core at the eleventh hour. Any life lessons, such as how great it is to bring a new creature into the world, are banal in the extreme; and to cap it all, it's half an hour too long. Talking of half-hours, the Rudd/Mann subplot seems to have unwittingly fertilised the far superior British TV comedy, Outnumbered (2007).
Country: US
Technical: col 129m
Director: Judd Apatow
Cast: Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Harold Ramis
Synopsis:
A TV journalist gets promotion and has a one-night stand with an overweight slacker that ends in pregnancy. With one eye on her sister's household as their ambivalent guide through the travails of parenthood, they must decide to what extent they are going to face the coming storm together.
Review:
Vulgar, profane, obnoxious would-be comedy about commitment, which manages to get gross-out humour in there for good measure. Having started from the absurd premise that a Californian doll would bed a pimply loudmouth, we must then sit by and presumably smile as he shouts all manner of hurtful misogyny at her until he realizes his sensitive inner core at the eleventh hour. Any life lessons, such as how great it is to bring a new creature into the world, are banal in the extreme; and to cap it all, it's half an hour too long. Talking of half-hours, the Rudd/Mann subplot seems to have unwittingly fertilised the far superior British TV comedy, Outnumbered (2007).
