'Knocked Up' Feminism

Seen the movie “Knocked Up?” Me too.
Notice the protest sign around star Katherine Heigl’s neck while she was filming it? Me neither.
That’s why it strikes me as fascinating that, with the movie now cleaning up in video stores after a very successful theater run, the "Grey's Anatomy" star is now trashing the film as sexist.
“It paints the women as shrew, as humorless and uptight and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys,” Heigl tells Vanity Fair this month. “Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience but it was hard for me to love the movie.”
The millions she made off the movie, then, allowed her to relegate those concerns about the script to only two percent of her consciousness.
This is not to say the points she made are not legtimate. It just seems unseemly, though, to take the studio’s money to film a movie called “Knocked Up” only to come up with a feminist critique of it afterward. Kind of like taking a furrier's money for a day's work and then at 5 o'clock running outside to join a PETA protest.
With her comments, Heigl’s obviously angling for more serious, thoughtful roles than“Knocked Up.” Shouldn’t be difficult. Hollywood has plenty of movies about vacuous, self-important people trying to come across as deep. It’s their stock and trade.
And by the way, I didn’t think the men in “Knocked Up” came across as goofy and lovable (fun loving, I’ll give you.) They were just as empty and vacuous as the women.