I normally save any movie opinions for the movie page, but this deserves a post on the front page; if for no other reason than to stand as a FIRM WARNING.
Tonight I drove up to Salt Lake to meet my BFF Diana for her birthday dinner/movie. We had decided on Waitress, because it got such great reviews and because we have some adoration for Nathan Fillion. When we got there, we realized that the movie times Diana had picked up off of the internet were incorrect (damn you, Yahoo Movies!!) so we had to pick something else. We had both been wanting to see Knocked Up—a movie which also got some great reviews. So we bought tickets and got some nastilicious* nachos and sat down and waited to be made to laugh.
This was one funny movie, people. Funny. But WOW were there parts that were hard to watch. This movie should be marketed along side the Ortho Evra patch as a highly effective form of birth control. This movie takes a very honest look at everything pregnancy. Specifically, pregnancy sex… lots of pregnancy sex, and the honest dialog that every pregnant couple has had during pregnancy sex. Dialog which is both funny and excruciating to watch because you’re thinking hey, we had that conversation. and did we look that pathetic during that conversation? And then you realize, yes, you totally looked that pathetic during the pregnancy sex conversation, only you are probably not as hot as Katherine Heigl, which just adds insult to injury.
Now, next I will bring us to the birth scene. A birth scene where you will get multiple Discovery Channel-esque shots of the baby crowning. If you do not know what “crowning baby” means, YOU ARE NOT READY TO SEE IT! If you do know what “crowning baby” means, then you already know that you do not want to see it. Either way, shield your eyes, people. For the love… shield your eyes.
Another difficult part to watch was the whole Paul Rudd / Leslie Mann relationship. (The sister and her husband.) I was able to draw too many parallels to mine own relationship with my own husband. I’m watching thinking: Hey, we’ve been married almost 10 years. Hey, we have two kids. Hey, I’m just now edging past “prime”. Hey, I bitch at Jon like that… holy crap, that’s us! And that’s sad, because, bless them, they give such an honest performance of an imperfect, decade married, couple in love. (The only difference is that my husband has never flipped out and driven to Vegas for a lap dance and Cirque du Soleil on ‘shrooms with his stoner soon-to-be brother in law. I supposed I should thank heaven for that.) Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann were great in this.
Again I say, go, but be ye warned.
*nastilicious = nasty + delicious (as in movie nachos)
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I saw this movie this past week, laughted my butt off (well, not literally, but I wish). Yes, there were scenes that didn’t need to be shown esp. that crowning scene…..not expecting that… Oh, and to warn you all,that “image” is not just shown once, so don’t think that you are home free after that first shock.
Comment by Cassie — June 9, 2007 @ 8:49 am
@Cassie- Okay, probably my favorite line from the movie is “Now THAT’S how you get pink eye”.
Runner up line:
~In the dance club~
“I think he’s doing the dice thing too much.”
“That’s pretty much all he’s got.”
Comment by growupslowly — June 9, 2007 @ 10:40 am
HA LARIOUS!!! We are getting a group of friends (couples) together to see this movie!
Comment by Cassie — June 9, 2007 @ 5:15 pm
I’d love to see it.
Comment by Leslie — June 9, 2007 @ 10:55 pm
The movie, I mean. (You got that, right?)
Comment by Leslie — June 9, 2007 @ 10:56 pm
@Leslie- *Fyew* Glad you clarified that one, woman.
It’s really, really raunchy… but really, really funny. If you see it, we’ll have to swap one-liners!
Comment by growupslowly — June 10, 2007 @ 11:49 am
Great review Suz. You were right on!
The dice comment was a pretty funny line, the birthing scene had momentarily blocked that scene from my memory. =)
Comment by Diana — June 11, 2007 @ 8:25 am
I was doing the Silent-laugh-while-clutching-the-seat-in-front-of-me-and-oh-how-it-hurts-to-smile-this-hard-for-this-long Laughter (holy hyphens!) throughout the entirity of this movie.
Comment by Nerak — November 18, 2007 @ 8:43 pm