Knocked Up - Movie Reviews (2024)

A decade-and-a-half after its release, Judd Apatow’s 2007 comedy Knocked Up is mostly known for a few controversies... All of those controversies have some merit. But that doesn’t mean the film itself deserves to be written off. (15th anniversary)

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2022

Fifteen years after its release, Knocked Up is a time capsule of comedy filmmaking from over a decade ago.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 1, 2022

Judd Apatows gags are strewn with crude language and extreme behavior but his humor is all grounded in character and relationships and prickly moments of self-realization and guilt, and his cast mixes it up wonderfully.

Full Review | Mar 19, 2022

There are comic moments and some freshness in certain scenes, likeable bits, even satiric touches ..., but overall, this is a weak effort.

Full Review | Feb 14, 2021

Knocked Up crafts pathos and spit-takes from the truism that life will invariably make adults of us all whether we like it or not.

Full Review | Jan 30, 2020

Knocked Up works thanks in large part to a strong cast and Apatow's ability to stretch a seemingly razor-thin premise into a well-developed (OK, maybe too developed) final product.

Full Review | Nov 21, 2019

Knocked Up must be the funniest Hollywood romantic comedy since Apatow's 40-Year-Old Virgin. Granted, there are higher compliments, but the movie undeniably offers audiences many abdomen-impairing moments they'll talk (and talk and talk) about.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 25, 2019

Asmart, charming, uproarious, unabashedly filthy sex comedy that delivers on all levels.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2019

What makes Knocked Up stand out is not just the fact that the jokes are side-splittingly funny but that nearly everything that happens to the couple rings so true.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2018

The very fact that some clearly juvenile filmmakers have hit on the truth that a baby in the womb is as much a life as the one cradled in its mother's arms is encouraging.

Full Review | Oct 16, 2018

What really sells it is a fantastic support cast featuring Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill and Leslie Mann.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 14, 2018

... Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl have great chemistry onscreen and they are hysterical together.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Sep 12, 2017

It might look slightly risqué but the message remains the same: get married, stay married and buy lots of stuff.

Full Review | Aug 23, 2017

[Apatow] makes responsibility and commitment funny; no mean feat.

Full Review | Jul 8, 2014

What makes most of Knocked Up work is its ability to squeeze big laughs out of real-world situations.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 8, 2014

Knocked Up proves that hit comedy doesn't have to dumb down for its demographic.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2014

With sparkling performances from Rogen and Heigl, Apatow once again shows his sharp eye for talent and continuing knack for hits.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2013

The jokes, which are in the absolute poorest taste, remain hilarious, while a newer, deeper humanism, sensed in momentary flashes in the earlier film, is now fully on display.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2013

The movie is a decisive breakthrough for Apatow, whose comic instincts go hand in hand with an unfashionable empathy.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 3, 2013

It's a hysterical, well acted, and wonderful glimpse at impending parenthood from a man's perspective...

Full Review | Feb 1, 2013