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This is 40 (2012)

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Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 206
Fresh: 107 | Rotten: 99

Judd Apatow definitely delivers funny and perceptive scenes in This is 40, even if they are buried in aimless self-indulgence.

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Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 18

Judd Apatow definitely delivers funny and perceptive scenes in This is 40, even if they are buried in aimless self-indulgence.

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Writer/director/producer Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Funny People) brings audiences This Is 40, an original comedy that expands upon the story of Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) from the blockbuster hit Knocked Up as we see first-hand how they are dealing with their current state of life. -- (C) Universal

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Mar 22, 2013

$67.5M

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All Critics (221) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (107) | Rotten (99) | DVD (3)

However irritating 'This Is 40' is at times, there's a warmth that wins you over, and an honesty about families.

February 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Time Out
Cath Clarke
Time Out
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Apparently Apatow's penchant for if-it's-not-broke filmmaking isn't changing anytime soon. And it's a shame, because while This is 40 has plenty of laughs, it lacks decency and heart.

December 21, 2012 Full Review Source: Denver Post
Ricardo Baca
Denver Post
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The performers are so likable that you stay with them even when, as is often the case, the material is hit-or-miss.

December 21, 2012 Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor
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Judd Apatow is not a disciplined artist. And that's a good thing.

December 21, 2012 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
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"This Is 40" tends to be about the self-inflicted problems of spoiled upper-middle class white people. Which can be sort of funny, sure. Sort of.

December 21, 2012 Full Review Source: Detroit News
Tom Long
Detroit News
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No one could be as whiny, spoiled, tasteless, combative and reliant on annoying stand-up comedy riffs as the entire cast of this film, the most disappointing one of the year.

December 21, 2012 Full Review Source: New York Post
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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For Apatow to get to the point where Oscar voters start taking notice, he needs to start acting more like he's 40, not 14.

May 13, 2013 Full Review Source: The Patriot Ledger
Al Alexander
The Patriot Ledger

...a collection of demos, obviously inessential but interesting to the cultists.

April 27, 2013 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The most satisfying example yet of why Judd Apatow's become such a formidable comedy brand in recent years.

April 1, 2013 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Apatow dips a toe into mature waters, and remembers to bring along the laughs

March 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Movie Habit
Robert Denerstein
Movie Habit

I do not find fault with these characters as I believe they accurately reflect our so-called post-modern times and they deserve to be laughed at.

March 24, 2013 Full Review Source: Cinemania
Dan Jardine
Cinemania Source: Cinemania

This Is 40 (40 minutes too long, that is) is getting at something, but it doesn't get there by 40 miles-not more than 40 people outside L.A. will understand it. This is not a refinement of the frat-pack comedy as much as a tombstone for a subgenre.

March 19, 2013 Full Review Source: MetroActive
Richard von Busack
MetroActive

Watching This is 40 actually feels like aging, which isn't precisely a draw.

March 18, 2013 Full Review Source: Movies With Butter
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
Movies With Butter Source: Movies With Butter

This is funny?

February 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Bloomberg News
Greg Evans
Bloomberg News

This Is 40 is in fact, within its limits, an honest, frank, often painful film about married life, bringing up children, dealing tactfully with difficult parents, getting older without necessarily getting wiser.

February 17, 2013 Full Review Source: Observer [UK]
Philip French
Observer [UK]

There are laughs, sure, with Brooks' unabashed moocher coming up with many of the film's best lines... but the overall results are distinctly patchy and at 133 minutes, the film is at least half an hour too long.

February 16, 2013 Full Review Source: Movie Talk
Jason Best
Movie Talk

( ... ) underneath the brashness, there's a tender heart, with the children just being themselves amid adults who are still in love yet in danger of losing their way.

February 15, 2013 Full Review Source: Birmingham Mail
Graham Young
Birmingham Mail

It is, in its quieter way, more pointlessly indulgent than The Matrix Revolutions.

February 15, 2013 Full Review Source: Irish Times
Donald Clarke
Irish Times

While insightful when it comes to relationships and the differences between men and women, This Is 40 is too long and not particularly funny.

February 15, 2013 Full Review Source: Flix Capacitor
Stephen Carty
Flix Capacitor

This overlong comedy is so episodic that watching it is exactly like sitting through five episodes of a sitcom back-to-back. It's funny and enjoyable, with characters we enjoy watching, but they continually spiral back to where they started

February 15, 2013 Full Review Source: Contactmusic.com
Rich Cline
Contactmusic.com

There isn't enough story to float a TV sitcom; it simply consists of people bickering.

February 15, 2013 Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK]
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]

Even an off-form Apatow is better than most and this entertains.

February 15, 2013 Full Review Source: Sun Online
Alex Zane
Sun Online

It's a sitcom, then, with no real story or structure.

February 15, 2013 Full Review Source: This is London
David Sexton
This is London

This is 40 minutes too long.

February 15, 2013 Full Review Source: Daily Express
Allan Hunter
Daily Express

Every scene feels like an airbrushed composite of dozens of rambling takes, and 133 minutes is drainingly long for a story this sitcom-slight.

February 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph
Robbie Collin
Daily Telegraph

This is terrifically assured work from Judd Apatow. And most importantly, funny.

February 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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This is 40 was not as funny as I was hoping it would be. I did laugh at a couple spots, but mostly is was just OK for me. It is still fun and Mann and Rudd are still one of my favorite on-screen married couples. It stays true to how relationships grow and get distant. Life changes fast and sometimes those changes can completely side swipe you. Pete deals with the stress of trying to keep a family together through financial crisis and feeling obligated to his father and trying to keep the peace is obviously hard for Pete. Soon all of that blows up in his face and he has to face the reality of it all and try to fix things. Debbie is an emotional mess. She feels like her age is defying her and it is hard for to accept getting older. Then the news of new life really brings her emotional rollercoaster on some extreme highs. The children really don't make it easy for her either. The teenager is going through changes and just wants to be left alone with her devices and her obsession with the show Lost. The youngest is stressed by all the fighting and wishes things would go back to way it was. She misses her changing older sister playing with her and is kinda sad. I found the youngest to be pretty funny in this movie. I would watch this again.
November 18, 2012
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This is 40 is a wildly inconsistent comedy with moments of biting sincerity when it comes to marriage, but it also over-indulges in typical Apatow fashion. His movies can always use a ruthless editor to get rid of the unnecessary scenes that bog down the quality and pace of his films. Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann give solid performances as the couple falling apart, but the script and screenplay shorthand them with a tidy ending that doesn't do justice to some of the great insights of the film. Some of the side characters can get incredibly tedious and annoying though, especially Albert Brooks as Rudd's useless father. Apatow's actual children play the children in the film as well and they are incredibly hard to put up after a while and not very good. There's times when this film feels more like a series sketches put together than a coherent film and that's one of the biggest problems. I found about half the material pretty funny and even smart, but the other half is a chaotic mess. I know Apatow has some great ideas, but he needs to let go of the lesser ones and learn to reign in his films. He's too lackadaisical of a director and has potential to be much more.
January 20, 2013
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Josh Lewis

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This is 40 Quotes

    1. Pete: One...a breeze. Two...brutal. Three...just put a bullet to my head. [views about raising kids]
    – Submitted by Olivia B (5 months ago)
    1. Larry: How do you call ebay?!
    – Submitted by Olivia B (5 months ago)
    1. Pete: Have you seen my starfish?
    – Submitted by Kaci V (5 months ago)
    1. Catherine: I want to jack-knife my legs and kick you in the head with my foot bone.
    – Submitted by Dianne M (5 months ago)
    1. Debbie: Are those real?
    2. Desi: These... [points at breasts] Yeah. Touch them
    3. Debbie: Really?
    4. Desi: Yeah sure.
    – Submitted by Jagat A (5 months ago)
    1. Jason: What's the difference between a straight mustache and a gay mustache? The smell.
    – Submitted by Lisa A (5 months ago)
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jesus this movie is 2h15m long? 13 days ago 21
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