The Movie: Knocked Up

Reel Thing Rating: 1 out of 5 Reels
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We admit it – we liked this movie much more than we thought we would. It was downright hilarious a lot of the time and almost believable some of the time. But do we really buy Ben and Alison as a couple?

Call us superficial, but…

We know that since the beginning of time there have been relationships between beautiful women and “interesting” men. Billy and Christy, Susan and Dudley, and we’re still trying to figure out Salman and Padma. So we can’t say it would never happen. But usually those men have one thing in common – money, and lots of it. This guy is just a lazy slacker apparently going nowhere, marrying a beautiful on-air E personality? We’re having a tough time with that one. He’s funny, but he’s not that funny.

We agree, there was something there, much more than we expected from the previews, which had us thinking “No freaking way!” But we just don’t see it as a long term romance. We took Alison’s sister’s marriage as a kind of cautionary tale about what happens a few years into people “doing the right thing” when a baby comes along unexpectedly, and we see the same kind of burnout happening with Ben and Alison. How long is Ben going to want to buckle down and be a cubicle monkey? How is he going to fit into Alison’s world of glamour and ambition? She’ll get tired of his immaturity and lack of motivation and he’ll find himself pining for that bong he threw out. Eventually he’ll embarrass her one time too many at a Hollywood party and that will be the end.

They’ll divorce but stay friends, not just for the child’s sake, but because there’s honest affection there. He’ll be that great fun dad that every kid loves and every mother rolls her eyes at before she heads out to the country club with husband #2. She’ll probably miss him occasionally but ultimately feel that she is better off without him.

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