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Year Old Virgin: Steve Carell
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In The 40 Year-Old Virgin, budding comedian Steve Carell plays a geeky middle-aged virgin. This is not a stretch for Carell, because in his acting career, he really is a virgin. Until his breakthrough role in this film, Carell long roamed the desolate comedic sidelines behind bigger names like Will Ferrell, Jim Carrey, and Jon Stewart. And yet, despite being relegated to small supporting roles, Carell has consistently and feverously out-shined and out-muscled his senior counterparts. Now, with Virgin, Carell proves that he's got the stamina to go the distance in his first leading role.
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The 40 Year-Old Virgin opens with an erection, specifically a morning glory tentpoling the boxer shorts of Andy Stitzer (Carell) as he stumbles out of bed and into the toilet. Stitzer's home is a shrine to prolonged adolescence, with boxes of pristine action figures and a mountain of video games. His ablutions performed, Stitzer cycles into work at an electronics store. Okay, he's a nerd, a Dungeons And Dragons figurine-painting geek. But he is otherwise fit and presentable and his equipment is clearly in working order. So why does Stitzer, like his flat, lack a woman's touch?
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Much like "The Wedding Crashers," Steve Carell's new movie "The 40 Year-Old Virgin" uses its raunchy R-rated surface to mask a gooey marshmallow heart. And what good goo it is. For all its often hilarious misogynistic posturing and idiotic, Spike TV-style homophobia, this sweet romantic comedy could pass for a certified chick flick. That's the key to its appeal: something for everyone. Read the full review
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In a year of sleepers, The 40-Year-Old Virgin was this summer's biggest, establishing Steve Carell as a top comedian. Although his NBC sit-com, The Office, isn't a mega-hit, it's doing well enough to be greenlit for a full second season. His stint on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart wasn't a fluke, after all.
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In the 2005 film The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Steve Carell's character screams out "Aaaahh! Kelly Clarkson!" after getting his chest waxed. This line was not scripted, but was featured in the film and its theatrical trailer.
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Cult comic actor Steve Carell--long adored for his supporting work on The Daily Show and in movies like Bruce Almighty and Anchorman--leaps into leading man status with The 40 Year-Old Virgin. There's no point describing the plot; it's about how a 40 year-old virgin named Andy (Carell) finally finds true love and gets laid. Along the way, there are very funny scenes involving being coached by his friends, speed dating, being propositioned by his female manager, and getting his chest waxed. Carell finds both humor and humanity in Andy, and the supporting cast includes some standout comic work from Paul Rudd (Clueless, The Shape of Things) and Jane Lynch (Best in Show, A Mighty Wind), as well as an unusually straight performance from Catherine Keener (Lovely & Amazing, Being John Malkovich). something about the movie misses the mark. It skirts around the topic of male sexual anxiety, mining it for easy jokes, but never really digs into anything that would make the men in the audience actually squirm--and it's a lot less funny as a result.
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