Film Review – This is 40

As everyone knows by now, when Judd Apatow decides to make a movie, it’s
never a tidy, easy event, but an immense outpouring of sensitivities
and improvisations. The director is more of a wrangler, picking the best
moments of imagination and vulnerability to shape the viewing
experience, leaving the end product formless yet filled with enormous
laughs and a manageable level of heartache. A spin-off of his 2007 hit,
“Knocked Up,” Apatow returns to the story of Pete and Debbie, hoping to
expand on the claustrophobia of their marriage as it slams into the
reality of the aging process. The results are uproarious and keenly
observed, continuing Apatow’s satisfying quest to inspect itchy human
behavior with a pronounced silly streak. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com