This is 40 Reviews

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.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

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

Full Review | Original Score: 82/100

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

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

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 70/100

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5

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

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This is funny?

Full Review | Original Score: **

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.

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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.

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( ... ) 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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

This is 40 minutes too long.

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5