After my previous post, I suspect this one will come off a bit crass. Talk about a change of subject, huh?
I just finished watching Knocked UpKnocked Up reviews
, it finally worked its way to the top of my Netflix queue. I didn’t really have many expectations for the movie, I haven’t read any reviews and I pretty much tuned out any of my friends talking about it. I knew it was a comedy/drama, and for some reason I already had some preconceived notions about Seth Rogen already despite the fact that I haven’t seen many of his movies. About Knocked Up itself, pretty much a clean slate.
I’m going to start trying to remember to use blipprblippr immediately after I see a movie so I don’t forget to do it, and while I tried to give this movie a mini-review, I was never happy with the wording of it. My thoughts on Knocked Up are a bit more complex than 160 characters can handle. Did I like it? Yes, of course. There’s much more to it, though.
Knocked Up is a great story, but it suffers from one issue. The comedy relief was far more crude than I enjoy in movies. I can handle profanity, I can handle drug jokes/use, I can handle sex and all of that sort of thing. All of that can be pushed a little too far and it just makes everything uncomfortable, and Knocked Up did that a few times. It was unsettling, but not enough to make me turn off the movie. I think the comedy relief had a place in the film, but they could have toned it down a little.
That sort of thing aside, I loved it. My biggest weakness when it comes to books and movies and all of that sort of thing is that when a character is likable, I get attached to them really easily and I’m a sucker for happy endings. The movie had its ups and its downs, and throughout all of it I just wanted all of the extremely likable characters to work things out and be happy. The fact that some of the issues are resolved while two of the characters are on shrooms? Well, that’s just a plus!
It is a good movie, and if you can weather the absurd amounts of profanity and drug use, you really should see it. Alan Tudyk makes an appearance, too. Who doesn’t need a little more Tudyk in their lives? He even made the end of Dollhouse awesome, and that’s damn impressive. Oh, and Katherine Heigl, of course. She’s pretty much a complete and total hotty, knocked up or otherwise.
I guess I could’ve wrapped that up in 160 characters, huh? Well, I tried. If you want to follow my mini-reviews, check them out over on blippr.
Another movie review? Yes yes, I’m sorry, I don’t intend for this blog to be “Alex blathers about old movies” but I happen to be on a string of good ones! At least, I think they’re good ones. Hopefully I’ll have something else to talk about soon.