The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 181
Fresh: 154 | Rotten: 27
Steve Carell's first star turn scores big with a tender treatment of its titular underdog, using raunchy but realistically funny comedy to connect with adult audiences.
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 6
Steve Carell's first star turn scores big with a tender treatment of its titular underdog, using raunchy but realistically funny comedy to connect with adult audiences.
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One man nervously ventures forth into the final frontier in this comedy starring comic actor Steve Carell. Andy Stitzer (Carell) is a cheerfully geeky guy who is settling into middle age with his large collection of comic books, action figures, and collectable models. Andy works in an electronics store, and seems reasonably happy with his life. However, one day his friends and co-workers David (Paul Rudd), Jay (Romany Malco), and Cal (Seth Rogen) discover that Andy has a secret -- due to his
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Cast
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Steve Carell
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Catherine Keener
Trish -
Paul Rudd
David -
Romany Malco
Jay -
Seth Rogen
Cal -
Elizabeth Banks
Beth -
Leslie Mann
Nicky -
Jane Lynch
Paula -
Gerry Bednob
Mooj -
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Jonah Hill
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Mindy Kaling
Amy
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All Critics (183) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (161) | Rotten (28) | DVD (43)
If it were 20 minutes shorter, it would be that much closer to perfect.
At its best it resembles one of those classic early-'80s comedies starring Steve Martin -- the thinking man's Woody Allen -- boasting an acute mix of desperation, dignity, lunacy and indecorous wit.
Top CriticCount me among the naysayers.
It's truly dirty and truly romantic at the same time, a combination that's very hard to pull off.
It's worth making a date with The 40-Year-Old Virgin. You won't go home disappointed.
The 40 Year-Old Virgin speaks to the geek in us all, it's democratic in its ridicule, and it makes you understand why sometimes a guy just wants to stay home and talk to his toys.
Apatow's creative miscalculation here extends well beyond forgetting to give his characters much to do: He made a comedy that's just not very funny
Judd Apatow might have been crowned the savior of American comedy, but the brutal truth is that he peaked with this, his first major hit. Sadly, so did Steve Carell. So savor this perfect moment that they shared, and scripted, together.
A pleasant surprise, The 40 Year Old Virgin stands apart from other gross out comedies mainly because of how it deals with the films main theme.
Simultaneously subversive and reactionary
Leave it to Judd Apatow to take a simple concept you'd find in basically any sex comedy, and add his own original twist on it.
funny all way through
Mr. Carell and Mr. Apatow traffic in random humor and though their ability to sustain it is impressive, it's at the expense of any real emotion. Which is a bit ironic.
A must-have for anyone who's even a casual fan of Virgin or director Judd Apatow's other work.
A sure-fire sign of a successful movie that's got 'legs' on DVD is the release of numerous editions on disc.
Appeals equally to fans of no-holds-barred gross-out movies and those looking for something more intelligent. It's hilarious, surprisingly perceptive, and even sweet.
An infuriatingly-offensive, soft-porn primer on how to treat girls as objects who exist at the disposal of men.
An infuriatingly-offensive, soft-porn primer on how to treat girls as objects who exist at the disposal of men.
The movie belongs to Carell, who takes a one-joke role and turns him into a three-dimensional human being.
There are lots of stereotypes about grown-up virgins, but the film stands these stereotypes on their head, so much so that, by the end, our protagonist seems like the sanest character of the bunch.
Audience Reviews for The 40 Year Old Virgin
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- Trish: Everybody dick look big on 60-inch TV, my sister's dick look big on TV.
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- Mooj: [upon hearing about Andy's promotion] This is the bullshit of all bullshit! Scumbag! Ass kisser.
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- Mooj: What are you? 25?
- Andy Stitzer: I'm 40.
- Mooj: Holy shit, man. You got to get on that.
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- Andy Stitzer: Hope you got a big trunk, cause I'm putting my bike in it.
- Beth: Whooo...yeaaahhh!
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- Cal: You got a hummer from the tranny, didn't you?
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- Cal: She likes you, man.
- David: Too bad I retired my penis.
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