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The 40-Year-Old Virgin

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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

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It's a little long, a lot lowbrow. But The 40-Year-Old Virgin is a stitch. See it if you could use a laugh.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
08/19/05
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

It's not great moviemaking -- it isn't as accomplished or funny as the best of the Farrelly brothers' films, say -- but it's got real appeal.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
08/19/05
Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy
Oregonian

Steve Carell plays the title character in a charmingly bent comedy about a likable geek's progress from action figures to real action.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
08/19/05
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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The 40 Year-Old Virgin is a kooky kaleidoscope of a film, where right is wrong and smart is stupid.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
08/19/05
Sue Pierman
Sue Pierman
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Hilarious and imaginatively crude with a surprising sweet and subtle aftertaste that prevents it from flopping, limp and brainless, into the sugary abyss of romantic predictability.

Full Review Source: Miami Herald | comment Comment
08/19/05
Connie Ogle
Connie Ogle
Miami Herald

The 40-Year-Old Virgin is often hilarious, thanks to its makers' willingness to go in surprising directions with their humor.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
08/19/05
Loey Lockerby
Loey Lockerby
Kansas City Star

The characters are over 30 so the humour and situations are far less juvenile than in abominations like Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo or any number of Will Ferrell slapstick comedies.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
08/19/05
Louis B. Hobson
Louis B. Hobson
Jam! Movies

Pretty good for a first time.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
08/19/05
Jim Slotek
Jim Slotek
Jam! Movies

...an adult movie that actual adults might like.

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
08/19/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The whole film is about embarrassment, about those moments of clammy vulnerability when the world just turns and stares.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
08/19/05
Amy Biancolli
Amy Biancolli
Houston Chronicle

A Kooky Virgin. The 40-Year-Old Virgin is comedy's best bet this season.

Full Review Source: Sympatico.ca | comment Comment
08/19/05
Angela Baldassarre
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca

If only losing it was so good for everybody.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
08/19/05
Jason Anderson
Jason Anderson
Globe and Mail

Such a well-balanced mix of the gross and crude with the sweet and sympathetic that it transcends its inadequacies in a way that may make even the most suspicious woman let down her guard.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
08/19/05
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press

This film manages to sustain its laughs for the entire film, and when it takes the expected turn toward sweetness and sentimentality, it does so with such forcefulness, with such conviction, that you believe in it.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
08/19/05
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

... for all its limitations, achieves its primary goal: making you laugh. You may hate yourself for doing so, but you'll laugh just the same.

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal | comment Comment
08/19/05
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

An undeniably likable quality helps make this smutty, silly late-summer entry more entertaining than many of its more polished counterparts.

Full Review Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News | comment Comment
08/19/05
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News

The 40-Year-Old Virgin offers some sparkling insights about the cumulative effects of performance anxiety, about how guys struggle with the transit from boys to men with little help from their pals.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
08/19/05
Lisa Kennedy
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post

The good-natured tone of the film and the wonderful comedic talents of the entire cast -- especially Carell -- make the gross-out moments charmingly relatable.

Full Review Source: CNN.com | comment Comment
08/19/05
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
CNN.com
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The answer is, unequivocally, yes. Yes, Steve Carell can carry a movie.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
08/19/05
Allison Benedikt
Allison Benedikt
Chicago Tribune

While it trawls the depths of bad taste, it also maintains at its core something humane and universally identifiable (even if it is corny) that puts it in the special league of films that are at once nasty and nice.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
08/19/05
Tim Cogshell
Tim Cogshell
Boxoffice Magazine
 
 
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