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85 out of 100

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6.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 423 Ratings

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  • Starring: Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen
  • Summary: In this film about a one-night stand with unexpected consequences. Judd Apatow takes comic look at the best thing that will ever ruin your best-laid plans: parenthood. (Universal)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 37 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 38
  3. Negative: 0 out of 38
  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    100
    Ridiculous comedies can be fine, but the ones that matter creep up close to the truth. This one lives in it.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    100
    The very opposite of a storybook romance, and also the very model of a great comedy for our values-driven time.
  3. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Josh Rosenblatt
    50
    Like most of Apatow's work, Knocked Up walks a perilous line between sarcasm and sentimentality, and though it's extremely funny in bursts, the movie flirts once too often with schmaltz before toppling into melodrama in its third act. The fault lies as much with Apatow's casting as his writing.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 149 out of 254
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 254
  3. Negative: 85 out of 254
  1. MichelleS
    10
    I have read a few very bad reviews, and apparently they were watching a different movie because this one is freaking hilarious! I have seen it over and over again, and still laugh just as hard every time. Seth and Katherine are so funny together and I think they make a cute couple. Yes, there were some gross funny parts and stupid funny parts, but I personally think that makes a comedy really funny, a variety of types of jokes. If you haven't seen it, give it a chance. And to those of you who gave it a zero or one, you must not have a sense of humor at all...I understand if you didn't love it, but it deserves more than that.… Expand
    • 3 of 3 users said yes
  2. PeterA
    5
    I'm down the middle. Yeah, there were some laughs, but they were all centered around the beard bet. The premise isn't totally unbelievable, but I just didn't buy that she'd both want to keep the baby and stay with him. And I thought the writing flagged around the second trimester. I guess what annoys me most about Apatow is he's obviously a really smart, clever guy who can't quite purge all the sophomoric impulses from his movies...the pot-smoking and potty mouth stuff seems geared to 12-year-olds, who clearly aren't equipped to handle the grown-up issues here. But maybe that's why it made a ton of money -- he's figured out a way to appeal to a pretty broad demo without actually satisfying them.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. jasonH.
    0
    It's a bad film, with flat characters, unbelievable situations, and a little too much faint Jew praise
    • 1 of 1 users said yes

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