Judd Apatow: Seth was pitching me some science-fiction that he thought he could star in or write. And I was saying, "You know, Seth, you are funny just standing there. You do not need aliens or ghosts or magical powers. You're funny in 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and you barely get up. You're sitting in the stock room." And then I said, "Like, for example, you could just get a girl pregnant on a date."
Apatow: Well, it just shows the range of a woman who can play so far from her delightful self. When we were doing the drunk scene, she was like, "I don't want to play some generic drunk girl. What can we do?" And I said, "Why don't you go get drunk with Seth. Seth will videotape it, and tomorrow we'll look at the tape and you'll see what you're really like when you're drunk."
knocked up pregnant sex scene
Judd Apatow's comedy provides an honest look at pregnancy, and as such features a scene that helps us understand what it's like to have sex when you're pregnant. Don't act like you've never wondered. It's about as sweaty and uncomfortable as we imagined -- Allison (Katherine Heigl) is incredibly self-conscious about her much rounder body, while Ben (Seth Rogen) is terrified that by having sex with her he'll somehow "poke" the baby, even though that's pretty much impossible. The combination of neuroses is disastrous, leaving both parties frustrated and dissatisfied.
Judd Apatow's comedy provides an honest look at pregnancy, and as such features a scene that helps us understand what it's like to have sex when you're pregnant. Don't act like you've never wondered. It's about as sweaty and uncomfortable as we imagined -- Allison (Katherine Heigl) is incredibly self-conscious about her much rounder body, while Ben (Seth Rogen) is terrified that by having sex with her he'll somehow \"poke\" the baby, even though that's pretty much impossible...\nRead More
A TV entertainment journalist (Katherine Heigl) whose professional life seems to just have taken a turn for the best when she is promoted, discovers that she is pregnant after getting drunk and having sex with a man (Seth Rogen) she had just met,. She decides to keep the baby, but she isn't so sure about sharing her life with the father, who is far less ambitious than she is. Also with Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann and Jason Segel. Directed by Judd Apatow. [2:09]
LANGUAGE 10 - 117 F-words and its derivatives, 1 obscene hand gesture, 21 sexual remarks, 56 scatological terms, 66 anatomical terms, 12 mild obscenities, 2 derogatory terms for homosexuals, 2 references to vomiting, name-calling (stupid, freak, doorman, old, fat cow), 2 religious profanities, 27 religious exclamations.
SUBSTANCE USE - A man holds a bag of mushrooms, and he and another man talk about when they will eat them, and they act as if they are hallucinating after they do. Several men smoke marijuana throughout the movie and appear to be in a stupor throughout -- they are shown smoking marijuana cigarettes, as well as from bongs and a man is shown smoking marijuana with his head inside a glass ball while the ball fills with smoke as he exhales. A man's father talks about his drugs rule, which is that his son should not take pills or powders but that anything that grows in the ground should be OK. People are shown drinking alcohol in a nightclub scene, people drink wine with dinner and one man drinks hard liquor, and several men are shown drinking beer throughout the movie. A woman smokes a cigarette. A woman in labor begs for pain medication. A woman says that she had three Red Bull's and she feels great, a man says he's "really high," and a man says, "Smoking weed can fix anything."
After producing multiple TV series that received critical acclaim and a swift cancellation ("The Ben Stiller Show", "Freaks and Geeks", "Undeclared"), Judd Apatow stumbled upon a more lucrative gig: writing-directing racy R-rated comedies. In addition to largely favorable reviews, Apatow's feature directorial debut, 2005's The 40-Year-Old Virgin, won public approval to the tune of more than $100 million domestically, making it perhaps the least-expected among the year's most-attended films. Two summers and a blockbuster later (he produced Will Ferrell's profitable NASCAR farce Talladega Nights), Apatow returned with Knocked Up, a film which shared Virgin's foul-mouthed sensibilities and intended balance of big laughs and heart.Knocked Up's premise is such an interesting "what if" that people have drawn comparisons (and at least one copyright infringement lawsuit) with other media. The film doesn't take too long to establish its start point, depicting two young people from very different modes of life. Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) is a chubby, scruffy slacker who regularly uses drugs and whose only job is to log the times of celebrities' nude scenes for a website he's long been casually developing with his friends/roommates/fellow stoners. Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl, "Grey's Anatomy") is a pretty and hard-working producer for cable TV's E! network, who lives with her older sister Debbie (Leslie Mann), Debbie's husband Pete (Paul Rudd), and their two young children (Iris and Maude Apatow).The paths of Ben and Alison cross on the night she's celebrating her promotion to on-camera work. Too much alcohol and not enough common sense finds the two sharing a taxi to her place, where they naturally "sleep together" and, thanks to a misunderstanding, without contraception. After one awkward morning together and eight weeks apart, Alison learns that she's pregnant with Ben's child, to the great surprise of both parents-to-be. Though this setup is somewhat unremarkable (and some have argued, unbelievable), it wins viewers over and so does what follows: a funny and earnest look at how Ben and Alison come together following their one-night stand to try to get better acquainted and to prepare themselves for their utterly unexpected introduction to procreation.Apatow's sense of humor is noticeably different from today's other comedy filmmakers. It's more daring and a lot more effective. As this DVD reveals, the director's creative process is extremely encouraging of improvisation and requires a lot of footage being shot; each added effort pays off. Apatow clearly keeps the film in the family, employing his real-life family and friends with whom he has professional history. The only core cast member of both "Freaks and Geeks" and "Undeclared", Rogen (who also appeared prominently in 40-Year-Old Virgin) gracefully leaps into leading man status here. Playing his roommates and friends under their real first names and with a camaraderie that can't be faked are a mix of "Freaks" and "Undeclared" alumni -- Jason Segel, Jay Baruchel, and Martin Starr -- plus Jonah Hill, who's quickly joined their ranks and topped the cast of Rogen-Apatow's subsequently successful Superbad. Meanwhile, the nuclear family is portrayed by Apatow's wife Leslie Mann (George of the Jungle) and their cute real kids, with Paul Rudd (of Virgin and Apatow-produced Anchorman) filling in for Judd himself.Since 40-Year-Old Virgin's success, Apatow now wields the clout to cast entirely as he wishes and his friends do not disappoint, each adding something comedically to the mix. Veteran actor Rudd and "How I Met Your Mother"'s Segel stand out the most, but the entire supporting cast gets its moments of hilarity, from former geek Starr's "Dirty Man Contest" efforts as a heavily-bearded subject of constant ridicule to newcomer Charlyne Yi as his loopy girlfriend. A couple of 1980s icons -- "Growing Pains"' Joanna Kerns and Ghostbusters' Harold Ramis -- turn up as well-meaning parental figures whose judgment seems questionable. Kristen Wiig brings some of her "Saturday Night Live" shtick to the big screen as Alison's passively condescending colleague. And the E! setting enables a few celebrities to cameo as themselves, most humorously "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest. One thing that will turn some people off to Knocked Up is just how far Apatow and company are willing to go. The language is sprinkled with profanity and conjures images most would consider inappropriate for discussion even among longtime close friends. The 40-Year-Old Virgin should be sufficient warning as to what to expect; the writer-director and his troupe don't just push a little past the commonly-observed PG-13 bounds, they delve fully into R territory with a near-constant stream of the F-word, drug references, and bawdy sex talk. On the whole, the movie is quite a bit more obscene than it needs to be, but at least most of its vulgarities have some comic value and serve to underscore the differences between Ben's ribald crowd and Alison's more professional posture.Knocked Up approaches an excess of talking, for most of the movie is just that and the fast-paced exchanges of dialogue (scripted or not) pack in an awful lot of discussion. The final product is over two hours and though that would seem to be much longer than it needs to be, few scenes feel deletion-worthy and the spunky pacing doesn't grow tiring. The relationship woes that plague the two most focal couples are a little iffy; at one moment, it feels like Apatow is carefully retelling real life stories, at others it feels like the opposition is contrived merely to provide the separation period that's practically required of a romantic comedy to provide conclusion incentive. The movie's minor errs along the way get forgotten by the film's hospital climax. The final act hits all the right notes, avoiding sappiness but being sincere and seemingly doing great justice to the elaborate childbirth process that most people go through at least once in their life. As a film, Knocked Up provides clear improvement over 40-Year-Old Virgin, supplying more laughs, more heart, and a more fluid balance between the two. While the level of crassness proves to be an obstacle that many viewers either won't or won't want to overcome, those that can accept it should find the film to be a triumph. It's a much different triumph from those unforgettable "Freaks and Geeks" victories but Apatow and company are taking big screen comedy to new heights in much the same way they briefly did for the hour-long TV program. With less star power than Virgin but a common distributor and similar release method, Knocked Up provided Judd Apatow with another box office hit. The movie's nearly $150 million domestic gross handily surpassed Virgin's $109 M and made it one of the summer's highest-grossing films, its R-rated sensibilities in stark contrast to the sequels and franchise flicks that were in the same stratosphere.As with Virgin, Universal has treated Knocked Up to separate R-Rated and Unrated DVD versions. Whereas that earlier Apatow film caused a minor stir for forcing viewers to initially choose between a fullscreen version of the movie they fell in love with or a significantly extended (and, many argued, inferior) version in widescreen, Knocked Up neither gets such a drastic elongation nor throws customers into a Sophie-like decision. The movie's extended cut runs a mere 4 minutes longer, providing a few colorful but easy-to-miss exchanges regarding threesomes and Julianne Moore's nether regions that naturally have very little effect, positive or negative, on the film as a whole.As for the different flavors, Knocked Up arrives in five. There is a widescreen single-disc version of the theatrical cut, which is missing a few of the unrated disc's extras. The single-disc unrated version, (billed "Unrated & Unprotected" and offered in widescreen or fullscreen, comes with everything on the R-rated disc plus a few additional deleted and extended scenes. Carrying a list price of just $1 more (though typically selling for a few dollars more) is the red-colored 2-Disc Collector's Edition (also called "Extended & Unrated"), which includes the unrated DVD as Disc 1 and a robust multi-hour supplements disc. That is the subject of this review. Finally, retailing for $9 more than that, there is the HD DVD / Standard DVD Combo which offers everything from the unrated single-disc DVD (i.e. Disc 1 here) plus a high-definition feature presentation and exclusive content via a picture-in-picture U-Control feature. 2ff7e9595c
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