Knocked Up Critic Reviews

Debbie gets away with being such a cauldron of extremes because the airy-voiced Mann is extremely good at playing them. She happens to be Apatow's wife (the kids in the movie are theirs), and with the possible exception of Téa Leoni , it's hard to imagine who else could get away with this combination of needling and affection.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

Funny, but its lacking at the core. Judd Apatow's comedy takes the guy's side of things, but how does the woman feel about all of this?Read the full review

Knocked Up could be one of the summer of 2007's sleeper hits. It certainly deserves the distinction.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

Knocked Up has some rough edges, but it's a noteworthy film by a significant and blossoming talent.Read the full review

It's one of those zeitgeist-tapping romantic comedies that feels like a generational marker, a "Tootsie" or "The Graduate" for the 21st century.Read the full review

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

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