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What relation does Judd Apatow's "Knocked Up" bear to his previous movie, "The 40-Year-Old Virgin"? It is not a sequel, though some of the same actors return for second helpings. Nor is it a companion piece, since its research topic has switched from a guy who hasn't had sex but wants it to a guy who has had sex but wishes he hadn't. Indeed, since the new film is about the comic, if hardly unprecedented, results of having unprotected sex, let us agree to call it an offshoot.
My suspicion is that Ben Stone (Seth Rogen) changed his name, having started life as Benjamin Flintstone. All the Freddishness is there: the ...
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