Fabricated Truth

Review:

One fateful night, career girl Allison and slacker Ben meet in a club, have sex and lo and behold, she ends up pregnant. This film tells the story of that fateful night and what follows when she decides to keep the baby. What sounds like a run-of-the-mill romantic comedy is actually a Judd Apatow written, directed and produced film that focuses less on the romantic parts and more on the comedy. And there certainly is a lot of comedy to go around with this film, with some hilarious scenes, but ultimately the film falls a little flat and never really lives up to its promise. It’s funny enough, but not the instant classic as which it was heralded.

Random Observations:

Knocked Up at the IMDb

Straight comedies (as opposed to black comedies, absurd comedies or even romantic comedies) should not run significantly longer than 90 minutes. If they break the two hour mark, as this one does (and most films Apatow is involved with do), they reach a point where the laughter has all died down and the whole thing just becomes tedious.

A lot of Apatow regulars are in this film, not just lead Seth Rogen and wife Leslie Mann, but also his two daughters and most of the current incarnation of the “Brat Pack”, such as Jason Segel, Paul Rudd and Jonah Hill.

The greater than awesome Alan Tudyk has a role in this film which should really have been expanded on heavily.

Nice to see that Ryan Seacrest comments on the emptiness of current celebrity culture, considering that his only real claim to fame is that he was just at the right place at the right time. Or is there actually anything he is good at?

Star Katherine Heigl later called the film “sexist”. While there is certainly some truth to that (even though I doubt that it was intentional), I don’t think it was her smartest move.