I'm with Heigl. That movie's so overrated. Not bad. But overrated.

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Amen to that, Erik. Right on.

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Yikes. Rabid, sexist, fanboyism where my Cinematical used to be!

Would you react the same way if Michael Cera said he thought the film was a little sexist? I doubt it. The whole tone of your post is that you hate that a woman spoke up and gave an opinion about the film that differs from yours. As in: THIS IS A GUY FILM, NO FAIR FOR YOU TO HAVE A POINT OF VIEW, I'M TELLING!!!

An actor has just as much a right as anyone (if not more) to critique the work that he/she has starred in. There are lots of hilarious sexist comedies out there --- pointing out the sexism doesn't make them any less funny or enjoyable. If Heigl thinks the film turned out differently than she expected, well, that is valid for her.

Of course, your entire post presupposes that her quote wasn't liberally taken out of context by the author or misinterpreted as more serious than was meant to be because it makes a great soundbyte.

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I enjoyed the movie.

Why doesn't she say that her Grey's Antatomy character portrays all women as trailer park sluts that give up their baby so they can just go pose in their underwear, be home wreckers, and bang every guy in a hospital in the closet?

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So she didn't care for the movie much -- no big deal. A lot of us look back on past work, whatever kind of work we do, and aren't really happy with it. I know I do all the time. Live and learn.

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First of all, I loved Knocked Up. Was it sexist? Yeah, maybe it can be interpreted as sexist, but that's only from a cursory viewing. It was a comedy where characters must be extreme versions of real life. It doesn't seem to me she was that upset about it, and just said it was a little sexist. Nothing to get upset about - don't blame her for an opinion.

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WHOA. sick burn.
im with you erik.

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"Knocked up 'a little bit sexist'."

And in other news ... The Earth is Round; the sky is blue; and ... breaking news ... large numbers of people pay to see old stereotypes played out on screen as entertainment.

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You have to take what Katherine Heigl says with a lot of salt. This is a woman who said, in USA Today, that she couldn't see herself having children because it would be painful and ruin her shape. Excuse me? Can a person be more shallow? If you're gonna say you don't wanna have children that would have to be the worst reason why, wouldn't it? I mean, if you don't like children, or don't have time to raise them, or are financially not able...

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It was not only sexist, it was part of a long line of women-hating films. The whole point of the film is humiliation of the woman most men desire but can never attain and for her to accept her humiliation as the fulfillment of her female role while the man gets everything he's ever dreamed of without much cost.

I realize it's hard to turn down the few female roles that exist these days in Hollywood, particularly when you know you'll never get offered the Meryl Streep parts. But I don't know if it's worth what it does to your career in the long haul. At least a tat can be blamed on your being drunk at the time.

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Did everyone watch the same film?
There was not a single decent guy in the whole movie, every guy was some combination of:
adult infant
drug user
obnoxious
loser
unwilling or unable to deal with life.

The women were shown as mature, responsible and nurturing... if a little over whelmed and emtionally isolated... but ONLY because the men in their lives weren't supportive or understanding.

Hell, the Seth character had to give up everything he used to enjoy, his friends, his hobbies, his "career" in order for the katherine heigel character to take him back.

I don't see how this is sexist, if anything, it perpetrates the feminization and emasculation of males by modern day pop culture.

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It was sexist... against men.

Every single male character in the movie was some combination of:
adult infant
drug abuser
socially akward
loser
emotionally unavailable.

The women were shown as mature, career AND family oriented and nurturing. The only time one of the women acted in a bad manner, they were practically forced into the situation because their male counterpart was lying to them, being emotionally unavalabe or just being an ass.

And if Ms Heigel felt this way, maybe SHE should have stood her moral high ground and not taken the roll, it's not like she's working Grey's Anatomy for minimum wage.

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I have to agree with Eugene here. I don't think it was necessarily "sexist" per se to any group. But, as much as I did love the movie, I felt it was a little unfair that Seth had to completely change who he was in order to be with Katherine Heigl, a successful accomplished smart woman. Not really seeing, in any universe, how this movie was sexist against women.

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Bravo on the last two sentences of the post. I believe she called it sexist because it was more or less, a romantic comedy for guys... not the Hugh Grant-during-the-holidays-met-over-the-internet-after-a-recent-widowing stuff people are used to. The movie isn't about the struggle of finding ones' True Love and making it work, its about simply trying to best love the one your with --while being a damn funny film and not completely following the archetype. Apatow and clan made her the biggest female star of the summer (arguably). If she had any gratitude for what the filmmakers did for her career she'd shut up. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.....

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I don't think it was sexist as much as it portrayed Leslie Mann's character as a horrible, awful person. That's not sexist.. she is just a bitch. I didn't think Heigl's character was portrayed poorly at all.. the only scenes she really looked bad in were where she was extremely pregnant and hormonal.

If [the character] was so uptight she never would have slept with Rogen's character to begin with, right?

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From a business standpoint, she shouldn't be bad-mouthing a film that's still fresh on the shelves in DVD form. Since when is that OK? Not that I can envision too many people deciding not to buy it because of her critique, but it probably won't help sell any either. My guess is that she's not getting a cut of the sales.

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I do not think this film is sexist. Actually, several of my friends (female and male) think that it was a fairly realistic film and had characters that you could identify with or believe. Leslie Mann's character was a bit over-the-top, but I think women were portrayed fairly positively here.

If anything, it's the generic romantic comedy that is sexist towards women - they are always crazy, moody, control freaks who make their men suffer to have the chance of being their mate.

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To be honest, I loved the movie and I didn't find it offending at all, as a female. It actually makes me like her less to know that she is bashing the movie. I wonder why, if she felt the movie was sexist, did she agree to do it? I think that the movie was funny, lovable and sweet. Every character had its quirks and faults. In no way did the film try to depict every male or every female. It just depicted those characters that Judd Apatow created.

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You've really taken her statements to heart... I don't think it's as serious as all of your ranting. She didn't 'trash' the film, she just discussed how she felt it turned out. You sound like someone who secretly wanted to date her character in the film and now you've been scorned! Especially in that last kicker about her new film - what's the motivation for all this?

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