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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 1403
Released: December 13, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Andy Stitzer's friends make it their mission to help him finally lose his virginity at forty.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: UN
Release Date: 23-MAY-2006
Media Type: DVD
Description of The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Unrated Widescreen Edition):
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
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Unrated Widescreen Edition) Reviews:
40 Year Old Virgin 
2008-06-14 - Such a cute movie & very funny. A great story about (as another reviewer says) guys that care about each other. Beware for children that there is nudity, lots of 'dirty words' and adult situations. But it's all there to build the plot and characters. I love this movie and it's happy ending!
Eight minutes 
2008-06-02 - The title alone convinced me to never watch this movie, but then a buddy loaned it to me.
The premise does work. You see how this guy lives, and he's credible as a character and as a virgin. I love his bicycle, and I haven't driven anything with a motor since moving to Asia in December 1999, so I notice such things.
However, the humor just wasn't funny. Very lame, pre-teen, predictable. He's surrounded by stereotypes, and really isn't he one too? I found it impossible to care, so I watched something else.
But hey, two stars. That is one more than I expected to give. Way to go movie!
Vindicated and Bittersweet
2008-04-17 - I'll be the first to say that this film was honest and funny. Yet for me this spoke of a common obsession today: finding a soul mate or the one true love. Under all of the jokes and utter vulgar references to a vagina it is a love story. It is basically a movie about a man who just happens to be a virgin due to some hellish attempts and it comes to be know to his co-workers then he starts a journey to find a relationship. And he is given advice from questionable characters that become is friends. At the end of the day his so called "experts" or friends are the ones who have no idea what love really is and are taught by the virgin. This movie shines in so many aspects that it is a masterpiece. It is a smart and honest movie that is extremely hilarious. Steve Carell is amazing and the whole cast was amazing in all fronts. So if you like Judd Apatow this is a good movie for you.
An Affirmation for Every Lonely Guy Who Never "Got There"
2008-04-13 - This movie is an excellent commentary about contemporary beliefs about sex and relationships, and aging nerdy guys who never had girlfriends, who are too depressed to bother to change things, who tacitly accept that they will never meet that special someone.
Andy (Steve Carell) is a stock supervisor at an electronics store, and his best friends are three salesmen at the store, who frequently regale each other with tales of adventures with the opposite sex. At a poker game, Andy is challenged to tell a story of his own. Awkwardly he reveals that he has no sex stories, because he is a virgin-- at 40. Shocked and yet empathetic, his buddies all try to get him to get friendlier with women with the intent of becoming physically intimate-- his buddies are all horndogs (including recent comic star Seth Rogen), and a series of comic misadventures takes place, involving everything from drunken clubgoers to a speed-dating service to transvestites to... well, it may not be polite to print.
Along the way, Andy meets a friendly single mother, and after much self-protest, Andy brings himself to talk to her and go on a series of dates-- she really likes Andy-- but his own fear of sex leads him to arbitrarily induce a 20-date minimum before they go any further than kissing-- which leads to some unforeseen complications.
Despite the casual profanity and the juvenilia that permeates the entire film, there is an endearing message about "waiting" and the myriad frustrations of 'nice guys' that manages to come across. The very end of the moving is shocking and surreal, but in a good way.
Bonus features include various scenes not already re-cut into the extended edition as well as other outtakes, and cast/filmmaker commentary.
Virgin, not stupid
2008-04-04 - OK, I love Steve Carell, he's a great actor, he's been compared to Jim Carrey or Will Ferrell but he's completely diff'rent. He can actually pull out a great dramatic performance, even as a comedy actor (like in this once). Also you have the gorgeous Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen as annoying as**oles. HAHAHAHAHAHA
Also check out Carell on Dan in Real Life, a good romantic comedy with the great Juliette Binoche.
