Movieline�would like to welcome Pete Hammond to the pages of this site with a new column that we're calling Hammond on Film. �If you love movies, then you're probably familiar with Pete's byline. He's the Awards columnist for our sister site,�Deadline Hollywood,�as well as a veteran movie critic who has written more than 600 reviews for the best-selling�Leonard Maltin?s Movie Guide�and, most recently, was the film critic for Boxoffice Magazine and Boxoffice.com.�He has also reviewed features for �CNN. �For his first column, Pete takes a close look at Judd Apatow's�This Is 40, which opens Dec. 21.
'This is 40': The Sort-of-Sequel to 'Knocked Up'
Revisiting the married supporting characters Pete and Debbie of his 2007 comedy hit,�Knocked Up, writer/director Judd Apatow has crafted his most personal and affecting film to date.
In some respects,�This Is 40 is an Apatow home movie with Paul Rudd, returning as Pete, subbing for the director. Real-life wife Leslie Mann and daughters Iris and Maude Apatow taking on the same roles here, and it isn't a stretch to think we're watching the filmmaker?s life unfold �onscreen.
Smart, funny and truthful in too many ways to count, Apatow, who's actually 45, �picks up the story of Pete and Debbie?s marriage five years after we first met them. Both are facing 40th birthdays ? although Debbie is fudging the truth ? and Apatow uses this conceit to build an episodic look at their marital and familial ups and downs over the course of a month.
This Is 40 is the most sharply observed and cutting edge of all four Apatow-directed efforts to date, and I suspect that's because he's really writing what he knows here.
Yes, there is still plenty of Apatow's trademark raunch,…
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