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OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh |
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A- | "Unlike so many comedies that rely on plastic characters based on no one from this universe, Apatow studies society and what truly makes us laugh -- which often turns out to be ourselves." |
| FromTheBalcony |
| Bill Clark |
4.5/5 | "(Knocked Up is) hilarious, heartfelt, endearing and just a wee bit evil in how it depicts the rigors of adult responsibility, and the inherent human desire to shirk same." |
| PopMatters |
| Bill Gibron |
9/10 | "A film that manages to be uncommonly thoughtful and sensitive to the complexity of its very faulted characters while still being relentlessly, brilliantly funny." |
| AfterElton.com |
| Brian Juergens |
A | "It's a masterful take on all things uncomfortable and true, and demands an audience that enjoys...ah heck, it just demands an audience. Don't miss it." |
| OhmyNews.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
5/5 | "Apatow knows growing up is a rough patch of grass but he wants to understand it. Such lofty ambitions seem to have been largely banished from romantic comedies, but here, it gives Knocked Up an honest timelessness." |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Chris Cabin |
A- | "Writer/director Judd Apatow ("The 40 Year Old Virgin") shatters romantic comedy conventions to create a side-splitting movie hinged on fundamental differences between men and women." |
| ColeSmithey.com |
| Cole Smithey |
| "The movie gets a lot of mileage from the boys' bonding over shared fears, frustrations, and yearnings." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
4/5 | "As he demonstrated with "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," writer-director Judd Apatow has a unique ability to make sordid subject matter come off sweetly." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Dan Lybarger |
2.5/4 | "...suffers from an aimless, overlong sort of vibe that often threatens to negate its many positive attributes." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
B- | "... the bawdy humor always seems to be around to keep things in check." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
8/10 | "iako je iskusnijem gledatelju odredi%u0161te jasno, na samom putovanju ga %u010Dekaju mnoga ugodna iznena%u0111enja" |
| Index.hr |
| Dragan Antulov |
2.5/4 | "Knocked Up is a good film. Lurking beneath the surface is a great one just dying to break free." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
A- | "It's a near-perfect mix of juvenility and intelligence, and of coarseness and sweetness." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
| "Apatow's talent for accurately portraying his generation at their most self-absorbed doesn't quite go as far at justifying the script's patchy, haphazard conflicts at it does toward explaining the film's bloated running time." |
| When Canses Were Classeled |
| Eric Henderson |
4/4 | "What do I already know after just one screening? That this belongs on the short list of the best comedies of the last twenty years." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
B+ | "I wondered why there aren't more films -- especially comedies -- this sharp, this clever, this good." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
C+ | "Another helping of the combination of romantic sweetness and slob comedy that made The 40-Year-Old Virgin such a smash...the raunchiness too often overwhelms the charm." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
5/5 | "A mega-laugh comedy about the messiness of change with lovable characters whose humor and flawed humanity make them very appealing." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
3.5/4 | "Apatow is clearly a romantic, even if there's a profane edge to his 'love conquers all' worldview. Other filmmakers embarking into the comedy minefield could learn a thing or two from him. He's two for two." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3.5/5 | "It's just too refreshing to see a well-made, genuinely funny comedy that is actually about something meaningful." |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
4/10 | "Click here to read review" |
| Kinoblog.com |
| Jaroslav Vishtaljuk |
2.5/4 | "Brush aside the crude formula and bathroom humor and you've got yourself a surprisingly delicate social commentary." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
9/10 | "[Apatow] makes these basic situations as humane and as funny as you'd expect, and he makes it look effortless." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
4.5/10 | "The film simply can't and doesn't live up to the lofty expectations created by its "Virgin" predecessor." |
| Screen It! |
| Jim Judy |
7/10 | "A fun, relevant, raunchy and often hilarious movie." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
| "Given that I like everyone involved, it is puzzling to me that I did not enjoy it, but such is life." |
| 3BlackChicks Review |
| Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel |
4/5 | "An unlikely but likable comedy, bigger on sweetness than it is on belly laughs." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Karina Montgomery |
3.5/4.0 | "... a genuine honesty and realism that lets R-rated hilarity ensue from the truth instead of mere spectacle." |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
4/5 | "Takes a worn-out plot and give it a surprisingly warm and fuzzy, yet very R-rated face lift." |
| Film School Rejects |
| Kevin Carr |
3/4 | "Judd Apatow is making comedies but also wants to tell relationship stories and get more serious at times, for better or worse." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
B+ | "With his latest, writer/director Judd Apatow proves he has a very unique talent - he can create a male arrested adolescent gross-out comedy while playing to and understanding the emotions of women." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
3/4 | "Marks a more mature worldview and understanding of relationships from [Apatow's] last film." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
B | "With equal measures of raunch and sentimentality, Knocked Up explores the minefield of imminent parenthood for two people who don't know each other very well." |
| Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema |
| Mark Pfeiffer |
| "[C]elebrat[es] as charming and inevitable and amusing and sweet what anyone who is that apparently rare specimen -- an actual, genuine grownup -- should be decrying as deplorable." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3.5/4 | "Knocked Up has a lot of great big belly laughs, yet it eventually arrives at a place of truth %u2013 a place where the characters have learned something about themselves and their lives." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B- | "The "oh, no, they didn't!" element and the gross-out factor work best when they are in the context of characters we root for and yes, even some tenderness or the raunch is just juvenile, and a little boring for anyone past middle school." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
3/4 | "Relatability is certainly a key component of Knocked Up's inherent appeal." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Nick Schager |
3/5 | "Suficientemente divertido e doce para garantir uma nada hesitante recomendação." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
4/5 | "Not only is it hysterically funny, but it's refreshing to see a movie about adults that's not dumbed down for kids." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
3/5 | "Has its moments, but not enough of them, and it ends up not saying much of anything." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
| "Knocked Up isn't better because it is more realistic, but this approach lends the material an appropriately mature tone." |
| Stranger Song |
| Rob Humanick |
B | "Knocked Up depicts its central concept far more truthfully than we have any right to expect: a blessed event, yes, but also chaotic, scary, and supremely difficult." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
B+ | "It is not easy to walk that tightrope between clever, witty, insightful humor and bawdy farce, but Apatow seems to walk it with ease." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
B | "[Helmer] Apatow and company's latest endeavor has a lot going for it, including heart and intelligence." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
| "Because its central character is a meticulously architected dude, Knocked Up is a contrived male fantasy." |
| Not Coming to a Theater Near You |
| Rumsey Taylor |
4.5/5 | "Thanks, Mr. Apatow, for (once again) proving that "R Rated Comedy" is not the exclusive domain of the base, the callous and the insipid." |
| Cinematical |
| Scott Weinberg |
3.5/4 | "Blisteringly hilarious from start to finish, a relationship comedy built on sturdy emotional conflict and not a series of flimsy gags." |
| Charlotte Weekly |
| Sean O'Connell |
3.5/4 | "everything about it is great" |
| sbs.is |
| Stefan Birgir Stefansson |
| "Hilarious from moment to moment, but leaving behind both a warm glow and a sting. This is a picture that refuses to fetishize either the ability to conceive or the significance of our place in the universe once we've done so." |
| Salon.com |
| Stephanie Zacharek |
7/10 | "You expect it to be crude, rude, profane and hilariously vulgar - and it doesn't disappoint." |
| www.susangranger.com |
| Susan Granger |
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OFCS Rating: 85% Fresh |
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