So wildly incoherent in tone, ambition and character motivation that it's hard to believe it was ever written out in longhand from start to finish.
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06/05/02
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40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
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Reviews Counted:133
Fresh:50
Rotten:83
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: As romantic comedies go, 40 Days and 40 Nights is smutty, sexist, and puerile.
Theatrical Release:Mar 1, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $37,885,539
Synopsis: Matt (Josh Hartnett) is having a hard time moving on six months after his relationship with bombshell Nicole (Vinessa Shaw) ended. He finds himself involved in empty physical relationships that are... [More]
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon, Vinessa Shaw, Monet Mazur
Director: Michael Lehmann
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Reviews for 40 Days and 40 Nights
This is a movie full of sex jokes, but they don't involve mechanics and fluids so much as the nature of sex and the way it governs young life.
06/04/02
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06/04/02
Robert Perez's screenplay takes largely predictable roads, most of them leading straight to Jigglesville, with detours along the way to Viagra Falls and Bulgeburg.
06/03/02
Raunchy dialogue and sexually explicit sequences overshadow the film's slight hint that factors other than sex might also be important in human relationships.
05/30/02
Then, there's the seen-that-before scene of poor Matt walking around with a protrusion he seems blithely unaware of that seems to go to some preposterously immense proportions.
05/20/02
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05/10/02
None of the characters interested me.
05/02/02
A dulling experience. The movie screams been there, done that and offers nothing new to the table.
04/24/02
Why do screenwriters demean women in these movies by having them find these lunk-headed doofuses so attractive?
04/12/02
Not the funniest film ever on this subject, but a nice statement and satire on relationships today.
04/12/02
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04/03/02
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03/24/02
... a ridiculously lame film that has absolutely nothing to say about real life or love.
03/15/02
Nothing more than a lame vehicle for teen heartthrob Josh Hartnett.
03/13/02
Top CriticA parody on sexual preoccupation in a pastel-colored unreality.
03/12/02
it is essentially a slightly more mature gross-out comedy
03/10/02
The premise is groan-inducing, the execution doubly so.
03/09/02
The material may be lightweight, but it's been shaped into a film that deserves to become a classic in an admittedly lightweight genre.
03/07/02
A funny sex comedy about not having sex.
03/07/02
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