[推電影] Knocked Up 好孕臨門

上星期五去看了一部電影，Knocked Up 好孕臨門。
嗯，這是一部可以輕鬆看，但發人深思的好電影。
劇情之簡單，辣妹跟宅男的一夜情，有了小朋友，兩個人要如何一起面對，告別單身。
有點懶的打影評，找了一篇簡介跟大家分享一下。

[小洋的簡單推薦]

好看等級：回鍋率 80%，到電影院看OK，而且你應該會買二手片保存。
有口皆碑：5人以上，你大概會跟五個人說這部電影好看。
適合對象：心智成熟的男男女女，你還小的話就不懂什麼叫做一夜情，什麼是意外的生命來臨。
適合找誰：你單身就找異性好朋友，你死會就找阿那達，你結婚當然就找親愛的[除非你有很多親愛的，這樣不太好....]
要帶什麼：帶錢買電影票，不需要紙巾，不需要飲料食物。
回味天數：30天以上不會忘記。

===我是分隔線===
來源請點我

Friday, September 7, 2007

By Christy Lemire, AP

Everything you've heard about "Knocked Up" is true: It's even more riotously and consistently hilarious than its predecessor, Judd Apatow's 2005 sleeper hit "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," with even greater heart. No small feat.

As writer and director, Apatow has the rare ability to find just the right tone all the time -- a bold yet delicate balance of humor that's raunchy without being mean, sweet without being saccharine. "Knocked Up" also features a cavalcade of pop culture references that never feel gratuitous, as well as some in-jokes that never seem smug.

Seth Rogen, who we already knew was funny from his scene-stealing performance in "Virgin," emerges as an unlikely but likable leading man as Ben Stone, a goofball of a slacker-stoner who enjoys a drunken romp with Alison Scott (Katherine Heigl), an up-and-coming entertainment reporter who's way out of his league.

Eight weeks later, she realizes she's pregnant, forcing both of them to make major changes in their lives.
(The fact that Apatow approaches the idea of abortion and lets his characters ponder it before Alison chooses to have the child, without entering into any sort of heavy-handed moral or political debate, is just one more example of his assured touch.)

Clearly these people are totally wrong for each other. Ben is round and hairy; Alison is leggy and blonde. He sits around all day with his equally unmotivated buddies, working on a website that lists the exact moment when actresses get naked in movies; she wakes up early, spends time with her family and takes her job seriously at E! Entertainment Television.

But they must get to know each other, first as friends and then possibly as something deeper, if they're going to make this work. It doesn't exactly help that their primary example is Alison's older sister Debbie (Apatow's radiant wife, Leslie Mann) and her husband, Pete (Paul Rudd, always a subtle comic talent), who don't have much in common anymore besides their two kids.

On Ben's side, there's even less help. The friends with whom he shares a tract house in the San Fernando Valley (Jason Segel, Jonah Hill, Martin Starr and Jay Baruchel, all old pals from "Virgin" and Apatow's short-lived TV shows "Freaks and Geeks" and "Undeclared") say they support him but they'd have no idea what to do with a baby, and they're too high all the time to figure it out.

This description, of course, makes these guys sounds useless and paints them into a corner as overly familiar types. But one of the best aspects of Apatow's script is that he makes his characters feel incredibly real. These are people who love movies and television and pop culture, and their analytical discussions of these topics always sound completely genuine. You may not get all the jokes --references to "Murderball" and Matisyahu play differently in different cities -- but you'll laugh hard enough and often enough to want to go back a second time and catch the lines you missed.

When they tool on each other --which they do constantly --you know it's with affection, and Apatow obviously has great affection for them, too.

Much of their banter was improvised, and Heigl, in a rare leading film role, steps confidently and easily into this male-dork-dominated society. It would be easy to write her off as eye candy, playing the straight woman amid a bevy of actors who get far showier roles, but she very much holds her own.

"Knocked Up" starts out with a one-night stand, but in the end it turns out to be a movie about loyalty. And except for being a bit on the long side -- which you won't mind because you'll be having too much fun -- it's pretty close to perfect.