Knocked Up

Starring: Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Katherine Heigl, Jason Segel Review: If you want to hate on Judd Apatow's Knocked Up -- and the anti-crowd-pleaser contingent will surely ding it -- then get ready to be drowned out by the sound of laughter from the rest of us. I'll admit there's something sitcom-trite about the setup. Idiot-boy Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) knocks up gorgeous Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl) on a drunken first date and forges a truce with his lifelong enemy: maturity. Talk about buzz kill. But Apatow, as he proved with his 2005 directing debut, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and the sharp wit of his TV work on Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, transcends the usual multiplex traps (Delta Farce, anyone?) by anchoring what's funny to what's real. Knocked Up runs for 132 minutes -- way long for a laffer -- but there's a reason that Apatow is the new king of... Rating: 3 Stars

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