'Knocked Up'

‘Knocked up’ (2007) 133 mins 
Genre: Comedy
Director: Judd Apatow

‘Knocked up’ is a hilarious comedy starring Seth Rogan and Katherine Heigl. The comedy’s storyline is a ‘young club goers’ worst nightmare; after a night out celebrating her new promotion in front of the camera Katherine Heigl’s character Alison Scott finds a celebration partner in the form of slightly over weight and ill humoured Ben Stone, played by Seth Rogan.
The film develops as an extremely drunk Ben accompanies not quite so drunk Alison to her apartment, she invites Ben in and their relationship becomes steamy as they take their new found friendship one step further. As they lay together on Alison’s bed, Ben struggles to put on a condom, as he does so Alison complains by telling Ben ‘Just do it already’ in exasperation. Ben in his drunken state misunderstands Alison’s meaning and ‘does it already’ without a condom. Unprotected, Alison discovers a few months later that she is pregnant. After much deliberation Alison decides to share this information with Ben, who she later discovers hasn’t really passed the mental age of childhood himself.
Whilst Ben and Alison get to know each other, Alison’s sister and her husband’s marriage takes a turn for the worst. The two characters struggle to balance parenting and a stable relationship. Meanwhile Ben and Alison observe this on the rocks relationship, and fear for themselves, they don’t want to turn out like them, not trusting one another and needing time apart.
After the news has sunk in Ben decides in an amusing turn of events that he wants to make an effort to support Alison and her child. Firstly he attempts to impress Alison by letting her see his business, which involves revealing at what part of different films a certain celebrity show their intimate body parts. Alison is noticeably put off by Ben's ambitions and the way in which he lives. Eventually Ben sees that this is not enough for his girlfriend and her baby so he moves out of the house that he shares with his other drug – using drop out friends and invests in his own apartment with Alison. The baby is delivered and Ben is confirmed a changed man when he holds the baby and him and Alison decide to bring up the child together. The film is highly amusing throughout and it aimed at a young audience between the age of 16 – 25.