Each generation in our media age is bestowed a leading comedy brotherhood, a fraternity of funny, whose elite members rule film and television. There was the Mel Brooks and Sid Caesar, the ubiquitous "Saturday Night Live" alums from Chevy Chase to Adam Sandler. Now we have a bratty laugh pack featuring, among others, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Luke and Owen Wilson and those newish arrivals, Steve Carell and Paul Rudd. Those last two guys teamed with Ferrell for 2004's "Anchorman" and return in a pop comedy of similar lowest-common-denominator aspirations, yet one with a sweeter heart and less surreal execution. "The 40 Year-Old Virgin" stars Carell as exactly that, a 40-year-old virgin. Forty. A virgin. It's its own punch line. Read the full review
40-year-old Andy Stitzer has never had sex. His friends consider it their duty to change that, but nothing proves effective until he meets Trish, a 40-year-old mother of three. Andy's friends think he may soon lose his virginity — until they hear that Andy and Trish have begun their relationship based on a mutual no-sex policy.
Director: Judd Apatow
Starring: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, Romany Malco
Release date: August 19, 2005
Rating: R for pervasive sexual content, language and some drug use.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: B
"... isn't as much about getting Andy in bed with someone as it is about getting him to shake off an old self he settled for too soon. It's the de-nerding of a nice guy."
Austin American-Statesman: 3 of 5 stars
"Carell ... plays his amicable super-goober Andy Stitzer with a nice-guy earnestness that gives the sometimes raunchy comedy a believable sincerity."
The Palm Beach Post: B
"Carell looks to have a promising film career, even if only playing variations on this inept, but appealing dweeb."
