Things in “Knocked Up” you won’t see in “Pirates of the Caribbean 3,” “Spider-Man 3″ or “Ocean’s 13″:
April 24, 2007

By Judd Apatow
Newsweek
- Paul Rudd on mushrooms at Cirque du Soleil
- Numerous gynecological exams
- Abortion debated by uninformed slackers
- Harold Ramis
- Disastrous sex during the third trimester
- Men fighting with boxing gloves that are on fire
- Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogen cursing each other out at the doctor’s office
- Men getting pink eye from farting on each other’s pillows
- A debate on how kick-ass the movie “Munich” is
- Doctors yelling at women who are about to give birth
- Celebrity wheelchair impressions
- Beard jokes
- Lots of beard jokes
- Jason Segel running nude
- Intimate compelling drama followed by more beard jokes
- and Ryan Seacrest being really funny. Seriously.
Apatow (“The 40-Year-Old Virgin”) directs this story of a loser (Seth Rogen) who hooks up with a babe (Katherine Heigl). Then—oops—she gets pregnant.