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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781417074501
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1417074507
Label: Universal Pictures
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 13, 2005
Running Time: 133 minutes
Sales Rank: 7937
Studio: Universal Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: August 19, 2005
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Funny
The 40-Year-Old Virgin is one of those independent films that comes along, every so often, and becomes a hit. A few years ago it was My Big Fat Greek Wedding that was a surprise hit, and a few years before that it was The Blair Witch Project. This film is superior to both of those earlier films, and has more in common with another sleeper film that predated both of those films, 1998's Office Space, which was one of the first films to flop theatrically, yet become a big hit on the then-new DVD format. ... Read More
Rating:  - 40 Year Old Virgin
Such a cute movie & very funny. A great story about (as another reviewer says) guys that care about each other. Beware for children that there is nudity, lots of 'dirty words' and adult situations. But it's all there to build the plot and characters. I love this movie and it's happy ending!
Rating:  - Eight minutes
The title alone convinced me to never watch this movie, but then a buddy loaned it to me.
The premise does work. You see how this guy lives, and he's credible as a character and as a virgin. I love his bicycle, and I haven't driven anything with a motor since moving to Asia in December 1999, so I notice such things.
However, the humor just wasn't funny. Very lame, pre-teen, predictable. He's surrounded by stereotypes, and really isn't he one too? I found it impossible to ... Read More
Rating: - Vindicated and Bittersweet
I'll be the first to say that this film was honest and funny. Yet for me this spoke of a common obsession today: finding a soul mate or the one true love. Under all of the jokes and utter vulgar references to a vagina it is a love story. It is basically a movie about a man who just happens to be a virgin due to some hellish attempts and it comes to be know to his co-workers then he starts a journey to find a relationship. And he is given advice from questionable characters that become is friends. ... Read More
Rating: - An Affirmation for Every Lonely Guy Who Never "Got There"
This movie is an excellent commentary about contemporary beliefs about sex and relationships, and aging nerdy guys who never had girlfriends, who are too depressed to bother to change things, who tacitly accept that they will never meet that special someone.
Andy (Steve Carell) is a stock supervisor at an electronics store, and his best friends are three salesmen at the store, who frequently regale each other with tales of adventures with the opposite sex. At a poker game, Andy is challenged ... Read More
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