Knocked Up fun

C-Lebrity sighting: Rebecca from the Bravo show Workout sat behind Steve, brother-in-law John, and myself at the screening. She's small and cute and fun.

Okay, so on to the movie Knocked Up.

You know what? It was pretty great.

While Katherine Heigl is amazing and the jokes move from extreme to charming, the real hero is Seth Rogen (the dude on the right).

First off, his voice and intonations remind me of writer Dave White. Not sure why, but they do. And that's not the real reason why he's so great in the film.

It's not even that he's super funny with one liners and a lot of improvised moments. (And, in fact, there are many great actors in this movie for that stuff. Even Ryan Seacrest-- I know, you'll be stunned. One of the best is Kristen Wiig from Saturday Night Live who, for some reason, I never met while in Groundlings classes. This is only odd because we have a pretty close mutual friend. OW! I dropped that name...)

Anyway, the reason Seth rocks is that this is a tricky movie-- he's a loser who gets a girl pregnant and, amidst her being crazy and hormonal, has to do the right thing while being really funny. There's no way it would work if he wasn't such an incredibly likable protagonist. So it's not just one thing that makes this work, it's all of them coming together really well.

Yes, the movie could have had ten minutes of random crap shaved off, but Seth is from Canada. I love Canadians. I practically lived there over a three-year period. They're polite. And funny. And, it turns out, good actors.