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The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
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Reviews Counted:174
Fresh:148
Rotten:26
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: Steve Carell's first star turn scores big with a tender treatment of its titular underdog, using raunchy but realistically funny comedy to connect with adult audiences.
Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: 40-year-old Andy Stitzer (Steve Carrell) has done quite a few things in his life. He's got a cushy job stamping invoices at an electronics superstore, a nice apartment with a proud collection of... 40-year-old Andy Stitzer (Steve Carrell) has done quite a few things in his life. He's got a cushy job stamping invoices at an electronics superstore, a nice apartment with a proud collection of action figures and comic books, good friends, a nice attitude. But there's just one little thing he hasn't quite gotten around to doing yet--something most people have done by his age. Done a lot. Andy's never, ever, ever had sex--not even by accident. So is that such a big deal? Well, for Andy's buds at the store, it sure is. Although they think he's a bit of an oddball, there's certainly a planetful of stranger (and homelier) guys who've at least had one go at having a go. They consider it their duty to help Andy out of his dire situation and go to great lengths to help him. But nothing proves effective enough to lure their friend out of lifelong chastity until he meets Trish (Catherine Keener), a 40-year-old mother of three. Andy's friends are psyched by the possibility that "it" may finally happen...until they hear that Andy and Trish have begun their relationship based on a mutual no-sex policy. Comedy writer and producer Judd Apatow (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, TV's Freaks and Geeks, Kicking & Screaming) makes his feature film directorial debut with The 40 Year Old Virgin, starring Steve Carrell (Anchorman, Bruce Almighty, TV's The Daily Show) and Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich, The Interpreter) and an ensemble cast including Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Leslie Mann, Gerry Bednob, Shelley Malil, Chelsea Smith and Nancy Walls. Apatow also co-writes the script with Carrell and produces along with Shauna Robertson (Elf) and Clayton Townsend (The Skeleton Key). [More]
Starring: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Romany Malco
Starring: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Leslie Mann, Jane Lynch
Director: Judd Apatow
Director: Judd Apatow
Screenwriter: Judd Apatow, Steve Carell
Producer: Shauna Robertson, Clayton Townsend, Judd Apatow
Studio: Universal Pictures
Reviews for The 40-Year-Old Virgin
I guess I lack the gene that finds gross-out humor and comedy applied with a sledgehammer funny. My advice is to stay as far away from this turkey as possible.
As funny as Virgin is, it could have had more depth and meaning. Comedy can do that, and when it does, something special is achieved.
If there's a cinematic mile marker for the progress of the geek in our society, it's this film.
They have written a story about likable people whom we care about, which allows genuine sweetness to coexist with the bawdy scenes and vulgar dialogue.
These R-rated comedies sure know how to be raunchy. They just don’t know how to be short.
If you're going to take home one naughty Hollywood flick this year, I think you'll get lucky with this one.
Is it too late to crown The 40 Year Old Virgin as the funniest film of the summer?
The 40-Year-Old Virgin made me laugh, and in the August dog days of summer films, that’s the best you can hope for.
A raunchy sex comedy with a sweet 'date movie' center, 'Virgin' is more sustained in both tone and story than the similarly strategized 'Wedding Crashers'...
I was annoyed by it, and by its gross predictability -- up to, and including, its banana-oil-filled bromide of an ending.
The show I attended was barely half full, yet the laughter was rolling down the aisles in tsunami waves.
This virgin's obsession with keeping his action figure collection in pristine condition is truly endearing, as is his notion that women’s breasts ‘feel like sand.'
Its characters radiate contempt in so many directions that they heat with contempt from the inside out, as if in a microwave oven of scorn.
a comedy that sounds tacky and mean-spirited but turns out to be both tender-hearted and frequently hilarious.
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