After the jump, I’ve got the trailer for Judd Apatow’s This is 40, the sort-of sequel to Knocked Up focusing on Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann’s characters, Pete and Debbie (sidenote: no one cool is ever named Debbie). Leslie Mann is of course Judd Apatow’s wife in real life, and his real daughters Maude and Iris play their kids. So basically this is like a non-porn version of one of those cuckolding videos, where Judd Apatow films Paul Rudd banging his wife, only instead of banging they just argue and do crossword puzzles and pop each other’s backne. Yes, that is how I imagine every relationship over 40.

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The first publicity image has been released from Judd Apatow’s This is Forty, a movie about Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd’s characters set a few years after Knocked Up. And yes, Judd Apatow cast his real wife and kids again (Maude and Iris, 14 and 9), with Paul Rudd as his stand in. Which isn’t that weird a fetish when you think about it.

Apatow’s first directing effort since 2009′s “Funny People” — picks up with the family a few years after “Knocked Up.” Pete’s music label is struggling and Debbie’s vanity business, a dress shop staffed by the comely Desi (Megan Fox) and the awkward Jodi (Charlyne Yi), needs to help cover the household budget.

Holy sh*t, this sounds incredible! Wait, what’s ‘comely’ mean?

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