The 40-Year-Old Virgin [Blu-ray] | ![The 40-Year-Old Virgin [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ceQeBdG0L._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Judd Apatow
Actors: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Seth Rogen
Studio: Universal Studios
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Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
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Running Time: 250 Minutes
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Cult comic actor Steve Carell--long adored for his supporting work on The Daily Show and in movies like Bruce Almighty and Anchorman--leaps into leading man status with The 40 Year-Old Virgin. There's no point describing the plot; it's about how a 40 year-old virgin named Andy (Carell) finally finds true love and gets laid. Along the way, there are very funny scenes involving being coached by his friends, speed dating, being propositioned by his female manager, and getting his chest waxed. Carell finds both humor and humanity in Andy, and the supporting cast includes some standout comic work from Paul Rudd (Clueless, The Shape of Things) and Jane Lynch (Best in Show, A Mighty Wind), as well as an unusually straight performance from Catherine Keener (Lovely & Amazing, Being John Malkovich). And yet... something about the movie misses the mark. It skirts around the topic of male sexual anxiety, mining it for easy jokes, but never really digs into anything that would make the men in the audience actually squirm--and it's a lot less funny as a result. Nonetheless, there are many great bits, and Carell deserves the chance to shine. --Bret Fetzer
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 A 40-Year-Old Virgin's review... March 9, 2007
Erik Olson (Ridgefield, WA United States)
37 out of 44 found this review helpful
My first viewing of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" was late in its theatrical run. By then it had been banished to the smallest theater in the multiplex, so me and (I assume) the only other middle-aged virgin in town were its sole audience. I wish I'd seen it sooner, because it's now one of my all-time favorite comedies.
Forty-year-old Andy Stitzer lives a comfortably regimented singleton life - similar to the main character from "About a Boy," except chaste, uncool, and with no internal monologue. He works in the service department of Smart Tech, a Circuit City-like electronics store. One day, a couple of coworkers ask him to be the fifth man at a poker party. He accepts, but during the game is outed as a virgin. The rest of the movie revolves around his friends' outrageous attempts to get him hooked up, along with Andy's determined efforts to overcome his fear of women and woo Trish, an attractive customer who owns an online auction store across the street.
This could easily have been another lowbrow copulation comedy. However, it's much better than that. Steve Carell (also a co-writer) does a fine job of making Andy into a sympathetic character. Indeed, I easily identified with his motivations and actions: the bad experiences that led him to forsake dating, his escape into fantasy, and even the mundane activities he uses to fill his solitary life. Andy's friends are also intriguing because they represent flawed approaches to women. David (Paul Rudd) is obsessed with a gal who dumped him years ago, Cal (Seth Rogan) objectifies females, and the serial cheater Jay (Romany Malco) can't commit to his longsuffering girlfriend.
The movie has been lengthened in this DVD edition by 17 minutes with additional and extended scenes. As for DVD extras, this edition is packed with a decent assortment. Deleted scenes like Andy's public karaoke debut added depth to the characters. A series of outtakes include the usual blown lines, gaffes, and laughing fits. The lively commentary contains interesting bits of trivia on the filmmaking process. However, it was a bit too crowded for my taste (just about everybody shows up), and Seth Rogan has a tendency to dominate the proceedings. Unfortunately, Catherine Keener is a glaring absence. Her portrayal of Trish is excellent, and I really wanted to hear her perspective. Finally, the other featurettes, such as the waxing scene "making-of" bit, are stock, but passable.
Although it's somewhat raunchy, as a Christian I have to commend "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" for a single crucial thing: it's the only mainstream movie I know of that makes chastity until marriage look like a grand idea. That alone is enough to recommend it (even if my pastor disagrees). But the humor, story, characters, and performances are also worth the watch - especially if someday, like me, you hope to sing "Age of Aquarius" on your honeymoon.
"You know how I know your gay? you like Coldplay". March 24, 2006
Puzzle box (Kuwait)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Well what can I say, I thought this film would turn into crap but I was completely wrong. Steve Carell is hillarious as Andy Stitzer the 40 year old virgin he is a laugh riot especialy during the scene where he gets his hairy chest waxed, I was surprised that the film didn't turn out to be as crude or vulgar as people have mentioned I mean there are a couple of scenes that are crude but its not over the top like soul plane or that disgusting Tom Green flick, the film is more of a dumb comedy like something from the farreley brothers. There is a message in the film which was pretty obvious but don't look for a deeper meaning its kind of stupid but very funny, the film has plenty of laugh out loud moments and there is a bit of romance when Catherine Keener's character gets romanticly involved with Andy. The story is about Andy Stitzer who at work gets invited by his co-workers for a game of poker one of them thinks hes a serial killer because of his strange behaviour, then it is found out that he has never done it with a woman in his entire life so they help him out and lots of hilarious incidents happen there is also an old foul-mouthed indian guy who say the funniest lines. Overall this is a great comedy not to be taken seriously you might enjoy it after all, its one of the funniest comedies I've seen in years.
"It's not about butthole pleasures, at all" December 27, 2005
Matt (NJ)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Steve Carell and cast gave me what I had hoped for with this movie. After having seen Anchorman, also directed by Judd Apatow, I was expecting great things when I heard that Carell was reuniting with Apatow and Paul Rudd for this movie. I thought their work on Anchorman was memorable and hilarious, although I realize it was one of those movies that you either "got" or you didn't. I loved it and have been quoting it ever since.
In Anchorman, Steve Carell was very limited in his role as mentally handicapped weatherman Brick Tamland. This was also the case with his minor supporting role in Bruce Almighty. It was great to see him step out into leading man status with this movie. I feel he did a tremendous job with this performance - one that will ensure him other big roles in the near future. Carell is a fearless performer which, I believe, is an essential component for successful comedy. He lets it all hang out in this, his first leading role - and he scores big...
This movie supplies plenty of quotable lines and memorable characters. Who can forget Mooj's sexual advice, the "you know how I know you're gay?" skit or the chest waxing scene? Ripe with sexual humor and way-out-there comedic delivery, The 40-Year-Old Virgin provides a wealth of laughs.
Highly recommended for fans of filthy humor!
If you dont like this... Rob Schneider would appreciate your business October 13, 2006
David Foskin (Waterford, Ireland)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Based on a skit he wrote years ago at Second City, Carell plays Andy Stitzer who lives a serene existence amongst his collection of unopened toys (an obvious metaphor which takes on greater significance as the story progresses) and working in the repair department of an electronics store. Since he keeps to himself, his co-workers assume he may be keeping heads in the fridge, but David (Paul Rudd) invites him to a late night poker game with Cal (Seth Rogen) and Jay (Romany Malco) and when it comes time to share sex stories, Andy gives his inexperience away.
Shocked by how a grown man could go forty years without even doing it by accident, his fellow workers are amused but probably deep down grateful that they now have a project to distract them from their own problem-plagued existence. All the advice in the world can't ease a man who has already found his comfort zone and isn't even sure anymore if sex is such a big deal. That is until Trish (Catherine Keener) walks into the store, a mother-of-three who went through her wild phase years ago and isn't exactly looking for a man, but senses a kindness about Andy that immediately gets him digits.
To describe a film like this solely on a plot structure is to suck the deafening laughs right out of it. But to go further into depth would be to ruin one gut-busting dialogue sequence or set piece after another. As quotable films go, The 40-Year Old Virgin boasts four characters who behave and talk like the atypical male. Not exemplified like the teet-lovin' pigs women talk about nor the pussified versions that romantic comedies use to suck women into the theater. These are men. Real men. Funny, flawed, horny and lovingly identifiable to both sexes.
It was nearly ten years ago since we had characters as perfectly realized as Andy, David, Cal and Jay when 1996 brought us both Beautiful Girls and Swingers. Beyond their reaction to and faux knowledge of the opposite sex, you could watch the video game scene in Swingers and know this was happening somewhere in town, maybe with even guys we know. That small moment of brilliance is eclipsed in 2005 when David & Cal engage in a discussion over how each knows the other is gay which Cal puts the capper on by using his game warrior to provide the exclamation point. It is asides like this in The 40-Year Old Virgin which catapult it past posers like Wedding Crashers and will endure it as a comedy classic.
If Apatow continues to churn out brilliance like this, his repertoire will soon be inheriting the accolades that Christopher Guest's receive on their feature-length improvs. (Jane Lynch has been borrowed from Guest and her unforced oddness gets us anticipating laughs which she pays off beautifully.) Apatow has brought with him folks from two of the most unjustly cancelled creations in TV history (Freaks and Geeks & Undeclared), most notably Rogen who, in my eye, is one of the funniest talents on the planet who should be finding steady work along the lines of Vince Vaughn and Jeremy Piven. Carell's Anchorman partner-in-crime, Paul Rudd, also continues to come into his own as one of the great untapped comic talents. His steady decline from stable nice guy to the wounded forsaken who has finally given up produces laughs even while we're concentrating on other laughs. And I had never seen Romany Malco before, but to come out of the blue and hold his own with the likes of this cast is a praise beyond measure. Special props is also due to the Elizabeth Banks who enhances her scenes with Carell by playing the good sport and trying to match his unbeknownst come-ons with a extra dose of sexiness.
Carell for the past five years has been stealing major laughs away from Jon Stewart, Jim Carrey and Will Ferrell and recently took on the uneviable task of updating one of the best television series I have ever seen (Ricky Gervais' The Office) and turning it into a worthy successor. The brash, occasionally screaming Carell could wear thin over the years, but in Andy he finds not the naivety of a child that would be the easy way out for an actor to approach this role, but a sweetness bridging innocence and pestered solitude. Never do we doubt his plight or how he fell into it and we completely accept Keener's interest in him and the approach she takes to their relationship transforming him slowly from a boy in flux into a man with a different kind of happy ending. It's so great to see Keener not forced into her typical bitch role and allowed the chance to play a mature, sexy woman.
Maturity comes with the playing field as Apatow and players have crafted an adult comedy worthy of the definition beyond MPAA age limits. It's not above the occasional cheap joke but counters it with some of the smartest and most off-the-wall pop cultural riffs in its dialogue that even those of us who identify them immediately still must blink twice that we actually heard someone in a mainstream comedy speak them. Comedies of this caliber don't come along too often. We're so desperate for them that we'll support wannabes like Wedding Crashers simply because they seem close enough to the real thing. In a world where films like The 40-Year Old Virgin is the great bizarro world version of garbage like Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Wedding Crashers isn't much more than the cinematic equivalent of the Chicago Cubs. On paper it looks good and a lot of people dish out big money day-in and day-out when at the end of the day, it's just not very good. Wedding Crashers is going to gross close to $200 million by the end of its run and if that's the playing field comedy fans want to set, then The 40-Year Old Virgin deserves to outgross Titanic. Let's make it happen.
"I'm very discreet, but I will haunt your dreams" September 19, 2005
M. J Leonard (Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA United States)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
It's rude, crude, and irreverent, and it's one of the best films of the year! It's the Forty Year Old Virgin, a film that is so full of gross-out gags and cheeky humour that most viewers will be aching with laughter. Together with a hilarious, acerbic script, sharp performances, great characters, and a willingness to tackle taboos, it's also a charmingly engaging love story.
Like one of the plastic-encased action figures that line his Studio City apartment, Andy Stitzer (Steve Carell) is all wrapped up. A stockroom manager at consumer electronics store, in The Valley, Andy's never learned how to drive, never had a steady girlfriend, and, at the ripe old age of 40, has never had sex. His sexual history is a chronology of embarrassing near misses. He certainly likes women; he's just a victim of circumstance.
When his brash, beer swilling colleagues David, Jay, and Cal ((lovelorn Paul Rudd, quirky Romany Malco, and rakish Seth Rogen) invite him for an after hours card game, they find out that he's never been with a woman. So they set out to rid him of his wretched virginity by helping him find a girl - any girl. They are full of stupid schemes, the point being, of course, that they are even more childishly screwed up in their relations with women than he is, and delusional as well.
Amongst the drunken girls, the partying, the dope smoking, and all the embarrassing humiliating moments, Andy meets a Trish (Katherine Keener - just wonderful!). Trish is a real woman, a laid back, middle-aged divorcee, who has been around the block a few times. She's nearly Andy's opposite, Even her job - running one of those we-sell-it-for-you-on-eBay stores - is symbolic: She spends her days trafficking in other people's unwanted goods.
So it comes as no surprise that Trish is attracted by Andy's innocence, even turned on by it - before she knows why he's so innocent. While Andy is inspired by her to finally let go of his childhood childish things, Trish, along with Andy's timid blessing, is more than happy to develop a relationship without sex for a change.
Carell so fully inhabits this role, making Andy a handsome but dorky kind of guy with a too bright smile that flashes nervously. He's is a man who has more testosterone than he knows what to do with; his over exercised chest bristles with thick, dark hair, and one can just see the sexual frustration dripping off him. But Andy's inhibitions go so deep, that he's almost sad to watch: he clings to his childhood toys for safety and closes up with a tense angst at the slightest suggestion of sex.
The romance comes alive every time Catherine Keener is on the screen. Keener has a big smile and a husky laugh, and she's such a warm charmer that it's impossible not to fall in love with her. The supporting players are spot-on and lend their own liveliness to the proceedings: both Elizabeth Banks and Leslie Mann shine as predatory women who terrify the hero, and Jane Lynch, as the tough boss at the electronics store who suddenly softens and takes a shine to Andy, is hysterical, especially when she breaks into a tender Guatemalan love song in an attempt to seduce him.
Yes, it's all pretty ridiculous, and some of the scenes verge on the offensive, but the characters are played with such understated charm and extremely quick wit, and there's real chemistry between all of them.
The film has a raw, natural tone that infuses even the film's most outrageous sequences: there's the chest-waxing scene, which mixes authenticity with toilet humour, and the sex clinic workshop which touches on people's real insecurities, even as it maintains a wildly comical tone. Along the way the clever script genuinely taps into issues of masculine insecurities, male obsession, and even female attraction.
Ultimately, The 40 Year Old Virgin is the story of a rather lonely, insecure, and reserved man who becomes a better lover for having been abstinent. Yet throughout Andy's journey there are arguments to be had, temperamental adolescents to be contended with, and unavoidable truths that must be revealed.
Along the way, The Forty Year Old Virgin is mercilessly honest about all this, even as it is being ruthlessly funny. Perhaps then, the movie is ultimately an ode to the benefits of virginity, an irreverent and bawdy advertisement for the saying that "only good can come to he who waits." Mike Leonard September 05.
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