KNOCKED UP STARRING SETH ROGEN AND KATHERINE HEIGL (DVD REVIEW)

 
 

The most important thing I want to get across is that you shouldn’t rent this movie thinking this is a comedy. Only the first 20 minutes, or so, plays off in a comedy tipe of style, but as soon as Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl) finds out that she is pregnant, the movie changes into a drama trying to be a comedy. While you get some laughs from the movie, it is actually more probable, that you will get more laughs from the commentary track.

As soon as you get over the fact that you didn’t actually rent a comedy, but an ‘undercover drama’, then you might start liking it. The movie unfolds as a light hearted look at what an unplanned pregnancy can do to your comfort zone. In the end, I appreciated the level of realism and the fact that the movie wasn’t too much ‘Hollywood’ as you would expect.

I would absolutely recommend this movie to anybody going through the same ordeal. After watching the movie, you might just feel that what happened to you is not the end of the world and that thousands of people have gone through the same thing probably most of them being in worst circumstances than yourself. At the same time, those of you that haven’t gone through something like this might be even more inspired not to let it happen to you as a rule of thumb.

I liked Katherine Heigl’s performance; I noticed her acting talents in Love Comes Softly, a movie I saw on TV recently.

Special Features

Some of the special features include deleted scenes, extended/alternate scenes, gag reel, a music video by London Wainwright III and even some jokes. There is also a featurette called Directing the Director which I don’t get. It must be an inside joke or something.

Commentary by Writer/Director Judd Apatow; Executive Producer/ Star Seth Rogen and Actor Bill Haden is certainly entertaining especially the impersonations of Al Picino. They also start the commentary promising to inform you about everything involved in filmmaking but fail to do so. You also discover that a lot of people involved in this movie, were also involved in the 40 your old virgin; a movie, that for one, was hilarious to the core.

Setup

Spoken languages include English, Spanish and French. Subtitles include the same and all off them are for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

Knocked Up, the DVD, scores a 6/10.