Product Description

Andy stitzer has gone 40 years without doing it. Now his pals are making it their mission to help him score .. Fast! can he survive their hilariously bad advice? will he land in the arms of the way-too-experienced or the way-too-drunk? or can he find true love where he least expects it-from a gorgeous grandmother? Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 02/05/2008 Starring: Steve Carell Catherine Keener Run time: 133 minutes Rating: Ur

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5800 in DVD
• Brand: Universal
• Released on: 2005-12-13
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 116 minutes

Amazon.com
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

Customer Reviews

Arise, son of Bachelor Party
Each generation bequeaths us a small clutch of raunchy comedies, in the 80's, there was Bachelor Party, Porkies, Weird Science, in the 90's - American Pie and now, the "40 Year Old Virgin".

I am 40 and not a virgin, so I could only relate to half the film, had I still been a virgin, I would probably have been robbed of the 437 best experiences of my life, and 75 of the most hazardous and worrisome. But that's life. This film is packed with amusing characters, and well acted and written. I intend watching it many times in the hard years to come as I revert more and more towards the virginal state again.

2.5 stars out of 4
The Bottom Line:

Despite funny supporting performances, The 40 Year Old Virgin suffers from a unappealing turn by Carrell in the lead and a tendency towards inanity (e.g. the chest-shaving scene and the final musical number); its reputation outstrips its actual merit as a film.

i didn't like it
I watched the whole movie because i found it interesting.
The only funny parts in the movie were what his buddies did.

During the course of the movie, I found the most of the scenes almost hard
to watch. And it was not that funny, i hardly laughed.

If there was a naked chick in the tub telling you to get in i think you'd know what you would do. I thought it was funny though when his friend got in the tub with her after everyone else left.

anyway 2/5 stars because the story was not that bad.
I just thought the main character was too pathetic to be real and the movie wasn't that good overall, sorry.