No babies for me just yet, thank you!

Before Katherine Heigl was Izzie on Grey's Anatomy, she was in a little film called My Father the Hero, followed by a string of awful B-grade flicks. But her perfromance in Knocked Up (from the makers of 40 Year Old Virgin) is sure to see her launched into high rotation.

You've probably heard the synopsis already - ambitious and beautiful young woman, Alison, has a one night stand with stoner slacker, Ben in an alcohol-fueled daze. Two months later she is horrified to discover she's been knocked up! The way the writers map out their relationship from hereon-in is what makes this comedy so successful.

Seth Rogen just has to do that rumbling giggle of his (if you saw him on Rove you'll know what I'm talking about) to have me laughing out loud, so suffice to say I was in stitches throughout this film at his character - a pot smoking, slacker with some "interesting" housemates to say the least, and their semi-pornographic business plan that they may make quite a bit of money from, if they ever finish it!

Once the decision has been made to keep the baby, Alison and Ben make an attempt at a relationship, but they couldn't be more opposite. Alison has to look past the dilapidated house he shares with four friends (a haven for copious amounts of weed-consumption), the fact that he doesn't have a job (or indeed want one), and his crass remarks, while she struggles to continue her new on-air position at E! without them noticing her growing belly.

In the meantime, her older sister, Debbie (Leslie Mann aka "Hooters. Hooters. Hooters" from Big Daddy) is stuck in a mid-life crisis with a husband she can't communicate with, and the two boys become new best friends in a rebellion from the chicks! (Wait for the hilarious scene involving Vegas, Cirque de Soleil and magic mushrooms.)

Oh, and if you're a bit queasy when it comes to full-frontal nudity in films, then a warning: this film goes waaay further than you would expect in the delivery room (need I say more?)!

I won't tell you if Ben and Alison sort their issues out or not, because I highly recommend you go and see this movie, especially if you love a good laugh... and if you're not too keen on having kids anytime soon : )

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