*eyeroll*

[moominmuppet]

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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*nod* I think I do. Interestingly, it was hitting me on a very different level than relative attractiveness. For me, it was about normative life-plans and goals vs non-normative. Anytime one brings a child into things, lots of practicalities have to change. However, the ways in which it's possible for them to change successfully are really remarkably varied, and seeing it simplified to "grow up and act normal" really didn't sit well with me. That she was that force in the movie is the largest part of why I didn't connect with her.