Knocked Up (DVD)

Synopsis After a one night stand , Alison Scott discovers she is pregnant to slacker, Ben Stone. This is the story of how both parties manage to deal with the pregnancy despite being two very different people. The Story Alison Scott is a hard working career girl at E entertainment, she's single and lives at her sister and brother in law's home in their pool house. One day she gets a promotion, instead of being behind the camera she's going to be E's newest presenter. To celebrate Alison and Deb's go out to a club where she meets Ben Stone. Ben's a slacker, he lives with his friends and has no job instead he and his mates sit around all day ...  Read the complete review

Film marketing would have us believe that biggest is best. Film posters adorn themselves with references to their fantastic special effects, huge budgets, massive takings or major movie stars. However, often big budget movies are all style and no substance. Sometimes a cinema goer wants a little characterisation and humour in their films. This market has been filled in the past couple of years by films made by Judd Apatow. '40 Year Old Virgin', 'Superbad' and 'Knocked Up' were all massive hits for their budget level. But does that make these films good? Just because the films marketing departments claim that 'Knocked Up' is one of the highest grossing comedies of ...  Read the complete review

This week my film of choice was one that has just recently been released at the cinema, and that choice was ‘Knocked Up’. I had the idea this would be a light hearted funny film judging by the adverts I’d seen so I thought I’d give this a try. It’s a definite comedy but with an unusual kind of plot as judging by the title it involves pregnancy and is a bit of a mixture of a serious storyline with a bit of a silly one. I have to say I was a bit disappointed with this film as it in no way lived up to my expectations and I think as usual the advert had pretty much revealed most of the funny parts of the film and left me in my cinema chair with disappointment. We ...  Read the complete review

When I saw the Knocked Up Trailer I knew it was a film that I would enjoy...my partner on the other hand was not convinced and was sure that it would be another Girly film so we waited for it to be released on DVD and added it to our DVD rental list. The film focuses around Ben Stone a 23 year old who is unemployed and living illegally in the US who has just $14000 to live on which he received as settlement when a mail truck ran over his foot as a teenager back in British Columbia. Alison Scott is the other half of the story a responsible, hardworking young woman on the fast track to stardom working for E! Television network. Alison lives behind her ...  Read the complete review

I starting watching this film knowing nothing about it, other than it had received good reviews. Within minutes it was clear that the film is one categorised in my least favourite movie genre; Romantic Comedy (the very words make me shudder). As a 30-something woman, married with kids, and a somewhat ‘lively’ background, I feel the I would be slap-bang within the target market that the film was aimed at, but for me, this type of sycophantic, slushy dross sets me aside from the majority of the female population - I am a chick that quite simply can not stand chick flicks. To be fair, If the film had been that dreadful, then I would have stopped watching it, so ...  Read the complete review