The 40-Year-Old Virgin

Production year: 2005

Comedy R   Running time: 2:03 

IMDB rating:   7.2     Aspect: Wide;  Languages: English, French, Spanish;  Subtitles: English, French, Spanish;  Audio: DD 5.1

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). And yet... 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. Nonetheless, there are many great bits, and Carell deserves the chance to shine.

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Features

Audio commentary
Deleted/extended scenes
Featurettes/Behind-The-Scenes/Documentaries
Gag Reel/Bloopers/Outtakes

Special features

Andy's Fantasies (Additional deleted footage that was actually too dirty for the movie)
My Dinner With Stormy (Actor/Co-Producer Seth Rogen has dinner with adult-film star Stormy Daniels)
Gag Reel (Hilarious on-set moments with cast and crew)
You Know How I Know You're Gay? (Never-before-seen extra material of the infamous routine)
Line-O-Rama (A raucous montage of alternate jokes from different scenes)
Multiple commentary tracks featuring filmmakers and cast
The 40-Year-Old Virgin