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Judd Apatow is very hit or miss for me; I find his assortment of regulars pretty thoroughly hysterical (especially Seth Rogen and Jason Segel), and there's stuff of his I utterly love (Freaks and Geeks, Superbad, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall especially), but I barely made it halfway through 40-Year-Old Virgin, and I'm currently finally watching Knocked Up, and about as irritated by it as I expected. I can totally buy deciding to continue an unexpected pregnancy. Happens every day. But everything about the relationship between the two of them feels so far beyond unrealistic that I can't particularly get into it, even as an over-the-top sort of thing. Because a one-night-stand she's horribly incompatible with got her pregnant, she's going to try to create a romantic relationship out of it? Seriously? I could even buy it a bit more if they were just trying to be good co-parents, and ended up falling in love, but this is one of the most unbelievable premises I've heard in a while. It's frustrating, because I'm so enjoy watching the cast, and am so disliking the movie itself.

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[jajy1979.livejournal.com]

There were a bunch of folks who warned me about that movie. It's never been my cup of tea as a movie type, but the complaints were enough to ensure I didn't bother even letting Dad drag me to it.

It royally offended a ton of the childfree folks too.

[blackbyrd2.livejournal.com]

I had issues with the romance myself, but then had to ask myself if I was thinking it was unbelievable simply because she was thin and beautiful, and he was dumpy and clutzy. I had to ask myself if it was possible for a 'pretty' girl to fall for an oh-so-'regular' guy, and how much of the cultural stereotype I was allowing myself to be manipulated by.
Then of course, you have to deal with the backswing to that, and whether or not you're overthinking things, or trying too hard to be non-stereotyping.

All of which really kind of took me out of the movie.

In the end I accepted the premise, mostly in the interest of attempting to enjoy the movie. (Because I do love a movie with a happy ending. That escapism is all about why I watch most movies. I can swallow some relatively outrageous premises in order to allow the movie to succeed.)

It would have been a better (and easier to accept) movie if they'd done a better job of character development before the one-night stand.