Knocked Up

A peculiarly unfunny, if sometimes insightful, comedy. Accused of being misogynistic; it isn't. It's not even misanthropic. It just says we're all shit, celebrate the excrement. Certainly if the female characters are not always likeable, the male characters are no ideals either. Then again maybe it's just Americans. Or maybe it's just us.

There is a 'crowning' shot in the birth scene that had a girl behind me exclaiming loudly, 'That's unacceptable!' It does prompt the question how some comedies (and supposed comedies) can get away with the most taboo things. Think of the zip scene in 'Something About Mary', the coathanger quip in 'South Park', the entire contents of 'The Holiday'. Now that last really should be taboo!