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40 Year Old Virgin
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The 40 Year Old Virgin is proof that motion picture comedies can still be funny. Sadly, the kind of consistent humor delivered by this film happens too rarely. This is the movie Wedding Crashers should have been: rude, raunchy, uproarious, yet with elements that are surprisingly sweet. Unlike Wedding Crashers, which loses its edge (and a lot of its humor) early, The 40 Year Old Virgin keeps it up for nearly two hours. Yes, it's a little long, but there are still plenty of laughs remaining in the final 30 minutes, and the movie reserves one of its best jokes for last. If you're looking for a successor to There's Something About Mary and American Pie, look no further.
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Make no mistake, The 40 Year Old Virgin was one of the better releases of a patchy year at the cinema and it's not an unpleasant way to spend ninety minutes. It’s just a shame that it’s still playing for half an hour after that.
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Although many of its jokes are the type that would make the prudish sort blush, The 40 Year Old Virgin has a surprisingly genuine heart. Since the sex jokes and raunchy episodes are well executed for the genre and given the subject matter, the crass nature of the comedy is certainly expected. With suitable casting choices and an emphasis on engaging and sincere performances, the film probably has a good chance of entertaining even those audience members who aren't drunk, eighteen year old males.
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The plot of The 40 Year Old Virgin can be summed up by a cursory glance at the title of the movie. In slightly more detail; Carell plays Andy Stitzer, a socially-awkward forty year old who works in an electronics superstore with a group of sex-obsessed men. When Stitzer reveals to his colleagues that his virginity is still firmly attached, they set about helping him lose it as quickly as possible. Naturally, this entails humiliation, comical misunderstandings and a fair amount of bawdy humour.
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In The 40 Year Old Virgin she played a girl that was going to have sex with the guy. She was like kissing his feet or something and then he kicked her in the face ?
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The 40 Year-Old Virgin is almost always amusing, and some parts are gut-bustingly hilarious. Any comedy with such high notes more than earns its rights for knowingly contrived scenes and a bit of sloppiness from time to time. If there is a downside to Virgin, it's the ironic combination of being edited too much to the distraction of continuity, while not being edited enough to keep the running length modest and to trim out some occasional moments of excess. Some scenes seem heavily truncated, obviously edited to remove scenes that would probably have carried out longer. I suspect the DVD release will feature an absurd amount of scenes that had been trimmed out, much in the way Anchorman, a similar screwball comedy that leaves no idea untried, had for its release. Still, even with the cuts, Virgin runs a long time before it crosses its eventual finish line at almost two hours in length, and while it does seem to sputter as it begins to develop a conclusion, at least it finishes with a bang (no pun intended).
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