Seth Rogen’s 2007 comedy Knocked Up reached No. 6 on Netflix worldwide on April 27, 2026, a striking return for a film first released nearly two decades ago.
The film, which Judd Apatow directed from his screenplay and that stars Rogen alongside Katherine Heigl, first launched at South by Southwest on March 12, 2007, before reaching a wider audience in the United States on June 1, 2007. It proved a box-office success, grossing an estimated $219.9 million globally against a budget of approximately $30 million.
The ranking on April 27 gives a clear measure of the movie’s staying power: Knocked Up sits among the top titles on the world’s largest streaming service nearly 19 years after its theatrical debut. Critical and audience responses that helped build its profile remain strong — the film holds a 90% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an 83% audience score there, while Metacritic gave it a Metascore of 85 and a user score of 7.1.
Those figures underline why the film has continued to circulate. A high Rotten Tomatoes approval and a Metascore in the mid-80s mark it as a rare commercially successful comedy that also carried broad critical favor. The cast that Rogen headlined — including Katherine Heigl, Leslie Mann, Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill and Martin Starr — has kept the movie culturally recognizable, and the story’s aftermath even produced a spin-off: This is 40, released in 2012, which followed Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd’s characters.
Context is simple and specific: Knocked Up is an R-rated comedy about Ben Stone and Allison Scott after a one-night stand leads to pregnancy. The film’s festival launch on March 12, 2007, and its wider U.S. release on June 1, 2007, set the timeline for a box-office run that turned a roughly $30 million budget into a global haul of $219.9 million — the financial record that now bolsters its streaming appeal.
The tension in the story is numerical. Critics and general audiences have long given the film high marks — Rotten Tomatoes’ critics and audience scores are 90% and 83% respectively, and Metacritic’s Metascore is 85 — yet Metacritic’s user score sits at 7.1, lower than the other measures. That gap between aggregated critical praise and a more modest user score on one platform highlights how a film can be both widely celebrated and contested in public reaction as it finds new viewers years after release.
For Rogen’s film to land at No. 6 worldwide on Netflix on April 27, 2026, those mixed but generally positive measures matter: they signal a film that attracts curiosity from new audiences and retains defenders among critics and many viewers. The combination of a strong box-office track record, consistent critical approval and an ensemble of familiar comic performers helps explain why Knocked Up can resurface in streaming charts long after theaters.
This resurgence also closes a chapter in the film’s lifecycle: what began with a festival premiere at South by Southwest and a summer release in the United States has become a multi-era property — theatrical hit, critically endorsed comedy and now a high-ranking streaming title. The most consequential fact is plain: Knocked Up’s financial success, critical scores and enduring cast have translated into measurable streaming traction, which is why it sits at No. 6 on Netflix worldwide on April 27, 2026.
