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40-Year-Old Virgin, The

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 35 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Romance
Written by:
Judd Apatow
Steve Carell
Directed by: Judd Apatow
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 19, 2005
DVD: December 13, 2005
Running Time: 115 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for pervasive sexual content, language and some drug use
Starring Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Leslie Mann, and Jane Lynch
A comedic take on a sweet-natured but middle-aged virgin who, through the well-meaning but misguided efforts of his co-workers, begins an unforgettable educational journey toward the goal of finally 'doing it.' (Universal)
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What The Critics Said
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Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky
Virgin is astoundingly astute but also wondrously clever, written with more care and joy than any hundred comedies to come out of Hollywood in years.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
It's an unconscionably funny sex farce that, by its end, turns into a tender and honest romance, an acute portrait of loneliness and, believe it or not, a musical. This is a movie Blake Edwards might have made.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
Takes a premise that, in less competent, less empathetic hands, would have had the depth of a pancake, gives it a soul and turns it into a surprisingly sweet and funny ode to male friendship and middle-aged love.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt
Yes, Steve Carell can carry a movie. Yes, Judd Apatow can direct a movie. Yes, we'll all relate to a middle-aged virgin. And yes, when an aesthetician yells to her assistant "we're gonna need more wax," you best run.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Rude, raunchy, uproarious, yet with elements that are surprisingly sweet.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Surprisingly insightful, as buddy comedies go, and it has a good heart and a lovable hero.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Probably the most sweet-spirited sex comedy ever made. It's pretty funny, too.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Works on every level. The humor and language are as crude as an R rating allows, but Carell and Apatow's script is so hip, funny and - yes - innocent that it's never offensive.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Hilarious and imaginatively crude with a surprising sweet and subtle aftertaste that prevents it from flopping, limp and brainless, into the sugary abyss of romantic predictability.
Read Full Review >Premiere Ryan Devlin
Even in the service of silliness, no one plays tragic, desperate, and beautiful better than Keener, who together with Carell, makes this film both laugh out loud funny and humane.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
The 40-Year-Old-Virgin is a hit, I would warrant, because it’s truly dirty and truly romantic at the same time, a combination that's very hard to pull off.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Funny and realistically romantic, but almost never at the same time.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
This is a superb, delicately calibrated comic performance: Carell never allows the character to swerve into excessive cuddliness.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
What keeps The 40-Year-Old Virgin out of Rob Schneider territory, however, is: 1) the fact that it's pretty darn funny, and in a way that feels consistently real, and 2) the fact that it's actually an excellent date movie.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
Even a starring role in the American version of the British show "The Office," which has given Mr. Carell a higher profile, conveys neither his sheer likability nor his range as an actor, both crucial to making this film work as well as it does.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Apatow's film succeeds in having its virginity and losing it, too. Like "Wedding Crashers," it purges its cynicism with romanticism.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Steve Carell, best known as a team player on "The Daily Show," "The Office" and such movies as "Anchorman," earns top-banana status as Andy. He is flat-out hilarious.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
A lot of the credit for what's right with 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin goes to the screenplay, which Carell and Apatow wrote. They like these characters and, when it matters, they dare to give them feelings, none truer than Andy's.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
It's not great moviemaking -- it isn't as accomplished or funny as the best of the Farrelly brothers' films, say -- but it's got real appeal.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
A love story that gets the single male culture down so honestly and unapologetically that it can't help but push the boundaries of political correctness.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jason Anderson
While "Wedding Crashers" ultimately succumbs to endorsing the mushy romantic clichés that it spends the rest of the time ridiculing, The 40-Year-Old Virgin offers a wiser take on the anxieties, negotiations and expectations that surround love and sex, particularly for people who've been burned before.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Carell accomplishes the task of being sweet-natured without becoming cloying.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joanne Kaufman
The jokes fly fast and sometimes very funny. They are, more often, crude and homophobic. Still, a genuine sweetness lurks.
Village Voice Jessica Winter
The Virgin script occasionally resets a gold standard for refined crudery.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
Isn't quite a home run: The visually flat film leans on a pop culture crutch that probably won't age very well, and the finale – while terrifically funny – feels piped in from another, far sillier movie.
Read Full Review >Variety Brian Lowry
Crude, sophomorically homophobic but frequently funny, pic also overstays its welcome a bit and indulges in some juvenile excesses. All told, though, The 40 Year Old Virgin delivers enough belly laughs.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
Too long, too sexist, and too--shall we say--flaccid. But it has its moments.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Sticking to one joke in an unconscionably long film makes for a very stale, witless and repetitive comedy.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
Fun without ever being particularly funny, this one-joke comedy-of-bad-manners features a hero who will either tickle your funny bone or make you vaguely uncomfortable.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Carell and Apatow collaborated on the script; it does manage a few laughs, but the characters seldom progress beyond the two-dimensional.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
In a textbook example of the have-it-both-ways ethos of self-loathing narcissism, Carell has succeeded in creating a character of old-fashioned decency in a movie that otherwise flouts it at every turn.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
A calculating crowd-pleaser aimed squarely at the under-25 crowd, who can feel free to add a star or two to my rating.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
Judd Apatow brings no cleverness or wit to his one-joke situation, and he can't give it the kernel of credibility that even a low comedy needs to sustain itself for a feature length.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.4 (out of 10) based on 192 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Daniel V gave it a10:
A movie that at the same time warms my heart and makes me laugh out loud. My favorite Steve Carrell movie yet.
Kenny R gave it a10:
Instant Comedy Classic. Filled with dynamic and lovable characters, unforgettable scenes and a plethora of one-liners you and your friends will be quoting for years to come. The excellent dialouge entertains you through the whole 2 hrs and 13 mins. This is one of the few movies that I can think of where each and every character is equally likeable and actaully funny. This film should be in anyone's DVD collection, along with Caddyshack, Animal House and Blazzing Saddles.
Jason J. gave it a10:
Great movie it was a very well written comedy and the cast just worked perfectly together. This movies has a lot of repeat value.
Kevin J gave it an8:
I really could have enjoyed this movie if I hadn't watched it with my parents. It was too sexually profane to watch with parents. I got that i-shouldn't-be-doing-this feeling the whole way through this movie...until the ending of course. My parents never gave me the "birds and bees" talk. I had to find that stuff out through porn (the best way to learn). It was a funny movie that does, in fact, express a good point: today's society pressures people so much to lose their virginity. You see this in movies and t.v. shows constantly. Life isn't all about sex: the creating of it is, but the living of it isn't.
Fred G. gave it a2:
Not that funny. Very little redeeming value. I totally don't get the good ratings. Most of the people I talked to agree that this movie wasn't that good. Every episode of The Office is funnier than this.
Tyler G. gave it a10:
Perfect, perfectly written, perfectly acted, everything about this movie was absolutely perfect. the jokes were clever, the story could have easily been just a teen flick to laugh at it's dirty jokes, but it turned out to be so much more than that. Great job Judd, keep em' comin
Emma J. gave it a10:
Loved this film, what a great surprise as was expecting another teen movie comedy and discovered and absolute gem!
