The 40 Year Old Virgin
2005 Directed by Judd Apatow
Synopsis
The longer you wait, the harder it gets.
Andy Stitzer has a pleasant life with a nice apartment and a job stamping invoices at an electronics store. But at age 40, there's one thing Andy hasn't done, and it's really bothering his sex-obsessed male co-workers: Andy is still a virgin. Determined to help Andy get laid, the guys make it their mission to de-virginize him. But it all seems hopeless until Andy meets small business owner Trish, a single mom.
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Steve Carrell not only gives a star making, pitch perfect performance that makes the film so funny, but I can't imagine anyone else in the role. As perfect as he is, it's also the fantastic and hilarious supporting turns from the likes of Catherine Keener, Jane Lynch, Leslie Mann, and many others who make this so enjoyable. I'm not usually a fan of gross out raunchy humor, but every joke in this film had me laughing on hard on the floor. Each joke is timed so perfectly and executed even better. What separates this from most gross out comedies of the past is that the actors and writers put a lot of heart in to it and it really shows.
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Having seen it about five times now, I still can't get over that random yet utterly hilarious ending.
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There were 4 of us in my house on Sunday afternoon and between us we couldn't decide on a single movie in my Blu-ray collection that we all wanted to watch. I wanted Inglorious Basterds or Snatch, my girlfriend got to the point where she no longer cared (in actual fact, she wanted to watch The Notebook) and my two other friends couldn't decide.
We had reached the stage where we were going to write our names and one film on a piece of paper and put them in a hat (yes, really) when one of my friends suggested 'The 40 Year Old Virgin'. All of a sudden, things clicked into place and we all agreed! Hurrah!
I personally love…
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Steve Carrell is comedy genius here on all points. He is so perfectly awkward and anxious and it makes for one of the best comedic performances of the last decade hands down. Unlike Knocked Up this relies on Carrell completely and the supporting characters actually do their job and support instead of steal the show. A great first film for Apatow and one hell of a treat!
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Of all the things I love and dislike about cinema, they are few and far between my disapproval of mainstream comedy. I won’t name any names, but the large majority of this generation’s most financially successful comedies are, to put it lightly, terrible movies. Judd Apatow (I lied) is one of many reasons for my view, but there is no way I can ignore the greatness that The 40-Year Old Virgin, his own directorial debut, contains. Countless rewatches over the years again and again have cemented it as something that I can watch no matter my mood. It is a simple, hilarious piece of comedic genius that has me in stitches in almost every sequence. Carell, as ever, is a…
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When this movie was released in 2005, I would bet that until that point in the decade, there was probably not a comedy better. I was unfortunately not on the band wagon at first, I remembered looking at the poster and thinking it looked stupid, and who the fuck is that guy and why is he smiling like an idiot. Needless to say after the buzz finally got to me after it's release, I pissed myself in the theater laughing too much.
Before I saw this, I had of course seen Anchorman, so I recognized Steve Carell from that, but I had no idea that he would be able to be the lead actor in a film and be as…
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Still loads of fun with many decent characters. Starting to look this will be Carrells best work which is pretty hard to top to be fair.
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Still very funny and very sweet. Fascinating to think though, how this was SO amazing when it came out and now it's probably the weakest or at least the most immature of the Apatow films. How far we've come.
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Steve Carrell is comedy genius here on all points. He is so perfectly awkward and anxious and it makes for one of the best comedic performances of the last decade hands down. Unlike Knocked Up this relies on Carrell completely and the supporting characters actually do their job and support instead of steal the show. A great first film for Apatow and one hell of a treat!
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Considering its pedigree and awesome poster, this was a little disappointing. The movie does have a lot going for it, the main factor being that the characters and situations feel real. This is something rare in modern comedies. Steve Carrell is especially impressive, believably portraying the title role. But the film's greatest strength may also be its greatest flaw; the film’s somewhat improvisatory style results in some pacing problems. Still, there are many funny moments (my favourite is the guy trying to buy boots at the ebay store), and it's refreshing to watch a comedy that doesn't treat its audience like idiots.
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Along with Anchorman, this is part of the royal family of Apatow movies. This is the role Steve Carell was born to play and the supporting cast are just as good. Jokes come thick and fast and, at times, genuine heart shows through. Genius.
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It's been awhile since I've seen this one, but I know its worth watching again.
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Of all the things I love and dislike about cinema, they are few and far between my disapproval of mainstream comedy. I won’t name any names, but the large majority of this generation’s most financially successful comedies are, to put it lightly, terrible movies. Judd Apatow (I lied) is one of many reasons for my view, but there is no way I can ignore the greatness that The 40-Year Old Virgin, his own directorial debut, contains. Countless rewatches over the years again and again have cemented it as something that I can watch no matter my mood. It is a simple, hilarious piece of comedic genius that has me in stitches in almost every sequence. Carell, as ever, is a…
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More a collection of improv-heavy situational skits than a narrative comedy, and one in which the supposedly central romance doesn't even get started until nearly two thirds into the movie. But Apatow's stable of mostly talented comics keeps things amusing even when nothing much is happening, and Carell's effortless charm somehow holds it all together.
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For decades the “sex comedy” has turned out turgid examinations of the male psyche and its apparent obsession with just one thing. The 40 Year Old Virgin (the directorial debut of Judd Apatow) could easily have stayed the course with standard raunchy jokes and disgusting occurrences (and the film has plenty of both), yet it also added heart. Any (Steve Carrell) has been so unlucky in love that he has given up entirely. All of that changes when his coworkers (Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, and Romany Malco) set out to get him some, and when he meets Trish (Catherine Keener, her full versatility on display), a grandmother who sells other things on e-bay professionally and who may just be the…