Knocked Up: Extended and Unprotected (2006)

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General		Extras
Category	Comedy Drama	Deleted Scenes Additional Footage Outtakes Featurette-Line-o-rama Featurette-Roller Coaster Documentary Featurette-Directing the Director Music Video-You Can't Fail Me Now Audio Commentary-Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, Bill Hader
Rating	?
Year Of Production	2006
Running Time	127:31
RSDL / Flipper	Dual Layered	Cast & Crew
Start Up	?
Region Coding	4	Directed By	Judd Apatow
Studio Distributor	Universal Pictures Home Video	Starring	Seth Rogen Katherine Heigl Paul Rudd Leslie Mann Jason Segel Jay Baruchel Jonah Hill Martin Starr Charlyne Yi Iris Apatow Maude Apatow Joanna Kerns Harold Ramis
Case	?
RPI	?	Music	Joe Henry Loudon Wainwright III

Video		Audio
Pan & Scan/Full Frame	Unknown	English Dolby Digital 5.1 (448Kb/s)
Widescreen Aspect Ratio	1.85:1
16x9 Enhancement
Video Format	576i (PAL)
Original Aspect Ratio	1.85:1	Miscellaneous
Jacket Pictures	No
Subtitles	None	Smoking	Yes
		Annoying Product Placement	No
		Action In or After Credits	No

    Knocked Up by writer/director Judd Apatow's (The 40 Year Old Virgin) is one of his two hits from 2007. The site also has an excellent review for the HD-DVD format here.

    The movie tells the story of a twenty something slacker (relative newcomer Seth Rogen), an up and coming E- News reporter (Katherine Heigl best known for her role in Grey's Anatomy), a one night stand and the subsequent unplanned pregnancy. Whilst never delving into such a complex issue too deeply, the movie delivers plenty of laughs and does a surprisingly sweet job of examining the various relationships in the film. Relationships like boyfriend and girlfriend, husband and wife, friend to friend  and parent to child are dealt with in an endearing way not often dealt with in a comedy like this.

    The supporting cast are great. One of Apatow's key talents is that he has an eye for emerging talent and building a fantastic supporting cast. Rogen's group of buddies (including Jonah Hill, Jason Segel and Jay Baruchel) are hilarious. Like mentioned in the commentary they are all best friends in real life and all them them besides Rogen used their real names in the film. Apparently there were a lot of out-takes when they called him Seth instead of Ben. Family also play a large part in the movie, Rogen's father is played by the excellent Harold Ramis while Heigl's sister is played by the amusing Leslie Mann (Apatow's wife in a rare example of where nepotism works) and Paul Rudd as her onscreen husband. Bit roles go to Saturday Night Live's Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig who steal their respective scenes.

    All in all, this is one of the funniest movies of 2007 and it even has a couple of extra minutes not seen in the theatrical release. If you like comedies, this is definitely a movie you should check out.

Video

    This disc is presented in PAL at the theatrical ratio of 1.85:1 and is 16x9 enhanced.

    Overall the picture is really good and the disc is an example of a very solid transfer.

    The image is quite sharp and very easy to watch.

    Colours are bold, with skin tones looking really natural. Outdoor scenes with blue skies and greenery really come alive in vivid and yet realistic colour.

    Black levels look good and shadows details are fine.

    Thankfully there are no film artefacts and there is no edge enhancement either.

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Audio

    The audio is a very solid English Dolby Digital 5.1 (448Kb/s) track.

    In comedies it's imperative to be able to hear the dialogue clearly, especially when the banter is as fast as Rogen and his buddies. This track does a great job, dialogue is always clear and there are no sync or drop out issues.

    At different stages there are some pretty good music scenes that add a lot to the film overall. In fact, I think I want to go out and get the soundtrack, there are a lot of catchy songs.

    As far as this kind of film goes, surround sound action is not overly important, and whilst this track does a good job it is certainly not stand out.

    There was no subwoofer usage, but it wasn't really expected for this kind of film.

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    Deleted Scenes (18:54)

    There are 14 extra scenes. Some of them are hilarious and others are improv scenes that would be more suited to a gag reel.

    Extended & Alternate Scenes (8:29)

    Generally scenes that were cut for a good reason.

    Featurette - Line - o - rama (3:32)

    This is pretty funny and shows the style that Apatow goes for with actors being pretty free to improv a scene to get the laugh.

    Gag Reel (3:27)

    This is funny too, but shorter than what I would expect with a movie like this.

    Roller Coaster Documentary (5:19)

    The buddy roller coaster scene was at Knotts Berry Farm and shows Jay Baruchel totally freak out about having to go on the roller coaster. He is literally crying by the end of it.

    Featurette - Directing the Director (7:40)

    A joke that gets old fast, but Capote director Bennett Miller is sent in by the studio to save the film.

    Music Clip - Loudon Wainwright III - Live at McCabe's You Can't Fail Me Now

    Acoustic performance by Joe Henry of a song in the film.

    Additional Footage - Topless Scene (:33)

    Not who you want to see topless.

    Audio Commentary - Judd Apatow (Writer/Director), Seth Rogen (Actor/Executive Producer), Bill Hader (Actor)

    Hilarious, not sure why Hader is there as his deleted scenes are longer than he is in the actual film, but its a funny insight into friends making a movie together. A rare commentary where you'd laugh as much if not more as you do to the actual movie track. Rogen has a contagious laugh.

    Seems to be the same as the US extended release, so call it a tie.

    A very funny film that has a surprising emotional depth to it.

    The video was great.

    The audio was very good.

    The special features were solid and do justice to the movie.

    Pick it up now!

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