This is 40 is a long, self-indulgent ramble through a series of anticlimactic vignettes, but it has just enough piquant jokes about life's frustrations to save it.

One of the funniest films of last year was Judd Apatow’s quasi-sequel to Knocked Up, the pre-midlife crisis comedy This is 40. (I like to think of the film as a comic precursor/companion piece to ...

Judd Apatow DVD/Blu-ray (128mins)It’s overlong, regularly crass and excruciating and yet this Judd Apatow comedy is saved by the deft comic performances of Paul Rudd and Albert Brooks (who is ...

As bloated as Katherine Heigl in Knocked Up — and with too much emphasis on shout first, be civil to each other later, dialogue, This Is 40 is saved from cinematic menopause by its funny and ...