You may have heard tell of this by now, but Katherine Heigl is interviewed in Vanity Fair, and says that she feels Knocked Up, the movie she starred in, was a bit sexist, and that the women were humorless and the guys were all lovable. Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere expounds a bit on the details.
In an interview in January's Vanity Fair, Heigl says "it was hard for me to love [Apatow's] movie" because it's "a little sexist...it paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as goofy, fun-loving guys."
No one would argue that Knocked Up's attitude isn't on the guy-skewing side, and yes, Heigl and female costar Leslie Mann, who plays Paul Rudd's unsatisfied wife, do come off as a little scolding. But every comedy needs "straight men" to bounce the humor off of, and that's their function -- to ask for a little maturity and sensitivity from men who are reluctant, to say the least, to provide this. At first, anyway.
My thought on the whole thing was that, even if the women are a little shrill and miserable, as a woman is wont to be after getting knocked up by a porn-obsessed stoner, that was all balanced out by the men all being complete and utter losers. They even fail at being porn-obsessed! How can you be entering the porn business and you haven't heard of Mr. Skin? Search for "celebrity nude scenes," and he's right there. (Don't bother denying that you've ever searched for celebrity nude scenes, either)
