Top of the Otts Movie Countdown #21: Knocked Up

21. Knocked Up – It wouldn’t be the otts without a Judd Apatow movie. This was Apatow at his best – funny but heartfelt, adibbed but not out of control. I’m still befuddled that it took 4-years between when Kristen Wiig owned all of her scenes here and when she finally got a title role in Bridesmaids. That was 4-years of co-starring and cameo-ing in lesser SNL colleagues’ work like Magruber. Thank goodness Ms. Fey finally made it OK for girls to be funny. Instead we got some decent Seth Rogen and some less-than-decent Katherine Heigl. Anyways, after this, Apatow got lazier, farming out straight comedies to his friends, letting the camera run too long on his friends, and getting a little too bitter and mean for someone who has a pretty sweet life.