When Alison Scott is promoted in her E! Television job, she goes to a night-club to celebrate with her older married sister Debbie. Alison meets the pothead and reckless Ben Stone. While having small talk with Ben, Debbie's husband Pete calls her to tell her that their daughter has chicken pox. Debbie leaves the night-club but Allison stays behind with Ben. They are drinking and dancing all night. She becomes completely wasted and they end up having a one night stand. Ben does not use a condom and eight weeks later, Allison discovers that she is pregnant!! She calls Ben and they decide to try to form a relationship and have the baby. However, Ben must grow up first to raise a family of his own with Alison.
My first complaint about this film is the abrasiveness of the title because there are many other choices!! What about This Could Happen to You or Drinking can Have Consequences for just two examples? My second complaint is that the plot is very raunchy!! What are the actual odds that Alison and Ben could be lasting and compatible lifetime partners?
This film has and has earned an R rating with drug use, strong language constantly, nudity and nonstop explicit conversations about sex. There is a cavalier attitude toward casual sex, turning it into a spectator sport, glamorizing drug use, showcasing gratuitous female nudity and constant F bombs. The only up side are a few warm moments, valuing life and family plus accepting responsibility for your mistakes.
Teenagers will want to see this but the main character and his roommates spend nearly all of their time high on marijuana. The physiological and mental aspects of pregnancy are often discussed. On the bright side, after watching all of this, it's a good bet that teens could be much less likely to risk having unprotected sex? They may even appreciate what their mothers went through during their birth? It could also lead to discussions about going into adulthood and the complications of spontaneous sexual encounters? 3* (This movie is OK)
Note: Imdb 6.9* out of 10* with 348,697 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 90% with 252 critics 83% with 2,084,946 audience scores, ReelViews 3 1/2* James Berardinelli, Common Sense Media Sandie Angulo Chen, 4* out of 5*, age 17+, 1* positive, role models, 5* sex, language, drinking, drugs & smoking, 3* consumerism, RollingStone 3 1/2* Peter Travers, The Guardian 4* out of 5* Peter Bradshaw, 4.7* out of 5* with 91 ratings.
Special Note: The kids who play Debbie and Pete's children are the real-life children of Leslie Mann and her husband, director Judd Apatow. The actors who play Ben's friends all keep their real first names for their character's names. This movie was originally going to be a follow up to The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) with Seth Rogan and company reprising their roles as the Smart Tech team.
Mistakes: When Ben and Pete are in the Las Vegas hotel room, the Sands Hotel is seen out the window. The Sands was demolished in 1996 to make way for the Venetian. Some of the characters talk about seeing Spider-Man 3 but Knocked UP came out in theaters four weeks prior to this movie's release? Later in the movie, Allison interviews celebrities at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards but this is old news and took place a year before this movie came out in theaters?
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