
nathans comment: "it hurted my funny"
Story:
Seth Rogen plays 23 year old slacker named Ben Stone, opposite, Katherine Heigl plays Alison Scott, a responsible television presenter. Supporting the two are characters Pete and Debbie (Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann) a married couple, Debbie, being Alisons older sister.
The story unfolds from the discovery of Alisons pregnancy and the film starts to explore, and subsequently poke fun at each character and their reactions towards such a drastic change in Alisons life and each character comming to terms with their responsibilities to each other and themselves.
Knocked Up presents a very "campy" style of humour, corny jokes and plot twists at the expense of many of the characters; funny one liners include: "he's playing fetch with my children >.>".
Characterisation influences the audience to a large degree in Knocked Up, allowing us to love some characters and hate others. The music used is simple and effective, so is the lighting and camera work.
Perhaps Knocked Up doesn't present the most intelligent of characters, the simplicity of plot, music, lighting and camera work allow Knocked Up to become almost as funny as School of Rock (in my opinion anyway)
To end; Knocked Up "hurted my funny" in the very sharp and blunt way that humor was delivered, perhaps it was just me who recoiled everytime something corny was said or when one of the characters does something stuipd for comic relief, but perhaps, it could be you too.