Reviews of the new comedy, Knocked Up, have been largely positive, and yet, a significant number of reviewers and commentators have taken issue with yet one more movie in which a drop-dead gorgeous woman falls for a guy best described as homely. Peter Howell fails to understand why this plot device irritates so many: “If you’ve spent any time at all on this Earth, you know that all kinds of couplings are possible. You also know that women are generally far more forgiving of a man’s failings than men are of women’s foibles, especially in the looks department.”