Knocked Up Critic Reviews

An instant classic, a comedy that captures the sexual confusion and moral ambivalence of our moment without straining, pandering or preaching.Read the full review

Uproarious. Line for line, minute to minute, writer-director Judd Apatow's latest effort is more explosively funny, more frequently, than nearly any other major studio release in recent memory.Read the full review

No one writes for ensembles better than Apatow, and his players are all skilled at giving his work a loose, improvisational feel.Read the full review

The very opposite of a storybook romance, and also the very model of a great comedy for our values-driven time.Read the full review

Apatow's gleefully raunchy movies are, in an odd and charming way, extremely family-friendly.Read the full review

Turns out to be not just rude, crude and outrageously funny but a deceptively sophisticated meditation on moral agency -- with pot jokes!Read the full review

Judd Apatow's high-density, high-intensity comedy of bad (and good) manners is a cause for celebration -- the laugh lines are smart, and they come faster than you can process them.Read the full review

What makes the movie so winning are its endearing and relatable characters who spout believable dialogue and amusing banter, steeped in clever pop-culture references and sharp observations of human nature.Read the full review

Rogen and Heigl step up to the plate with a tougher task from Coach Apatow: Nail every laugh and the emotions underlying them. No worries. They knock it out of the park.Read the full review