Knocked Up
This is one of those movies where I was let down by good reviews. If I’d thought it was just a stupid raunchy comedy thing, I’d’ve been impressed by it, but since I thought it was an actually funny comedy, I was disappointed in that it was pretty stupid in a lot of places. Seriously, the “gang of stoner dudes starting a porn website” bits were all just eye-rollingly lame.
On the plus side, the supporting actors were good, particularly the guy who plays Marshall on How I Met Your Mother (Jason Segel?) and the guy who played Phoebe’s boyfriend on Friends (Paul Rudd).
Overall decent but not great. Overhyped, but better than you’d think if there were no hype.
Oh, also, there’s one super-ridiculous element, which is that the lead actress apparently had a no nudity clause, leading to the always implausible “having sex with a bra on” scenes. Repeatedly. That’s the sort of thing that you can gloss over in like a TV show or something, but in a movie that’s otherwise awfully frank, it shatters suspension of disbelief.