This is 40

USA 2012, 134 minutes
Dir. Judd Apatow
English
Rating: [R16] Drug use, sex scenes and offensive language.
Genres: Comedy

Topics: Mid-life, Parenthood.

Feat. Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Jason Segel, Megan Fox, Charlyne Yi, Chris O'Dowd, Lena Dunham, Albert Brooks, John Lithgow

Aroview: Paul Rudd plays a struggling LA music exec whose reached the Big 4-0 in this funny and sometimes brutally honest look at modern relationships from writer-director Judd Apatow.

Marketed as a "sort of sequel" to KNOCKED UP, this is a far more believable scenario, if nothing else because the wife and daughters are played by Apatow's real-life family. Adding to the relatable trials and tribulations of parenting in the information age, Albert Brooks and John Lithgow lend substance as the couples' respective fathers, and cult rocker Graham Parker has a key cameo as himself. Like all Apatow comedies, it stuffs in too many ideas and has occasionally odd tonal shifts, but this one in particular resonates as a contemporary comedy for our times.