Product Description

Andy Stitzer's friends make it their mission to help him finally lose his virginity at forty.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: UN
Release Date: 23-MAY-2006
Media Type: DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1382 in DVD
• Brand: CARELL,STEVE
• Released on: 2005-12-13
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 133 minutes

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

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!

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 care, so I watched something else.

But hey, two stars. That is one more than I expected to give. Way to go movie!

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. At the end of the day his so called "experts" or friends are the ones who have no idea what love really is and are taught by the virgin. This movie shines in so many aspects that it is a masterpiece. It is a smart and honest movie that is extremely hilarious. Steve Carell is amazing and the whole cast was amazing in all fronts. So if you like Judd Apatow this is a good movie for you.