Rating of
3/4
Making a relationship work!
MovieAddict - wrote on 09/16/12
Alison Scott is a production assistant on E! Entertainment who has just got a promotion. So, she celebrates at a club with her sister Debbie (Leslie Mann). Her sister goes home leaving Alison who’s already had too much to drink. She starts chatting up a stranger at the bar, Ben and before they know it it's off to the bedroom much to the chagrin of the usually responsible Alison. When morning comes, the two happily separate from one another and both think that is the last they have seen of each other until Alison starts barfing at work. She and her sister rush to the drug store and buy up every brand of pregnancy test they can find and, yep, that little red line shows up every time.
Faced with the moral dilemma Alison decides to keep the baby and make the best out of an unexpected pregnancy while the terrified man-child Ben decides to face his responsibilities and be there for Alison. Parallel to the Alison-Ben relationship issues is the strained marriage between Debbie and her husband Pete (Paul Rudd) who are going through a slew of emotions... the tolls of marriage looming over them, the perfect scenario to freak Alison and Ben out about their relationship together which seems doomed from the start.
Seth Rogan plays his character well as an overweight, non-working, pot smoking, mid-20 year old loser who is building a website of all the great nudie film scenes with his LA pothead friends. He doesn't pay taxes, living on an injury settlement. This pairing is the odd couple allows for a lot of humor. The circle of loser friends is an entertaining bunch as well. This film is rated R and has its raunchy moments, so vulgarity shouldn't catch you off-guard.
