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The 40-Year-Old Virgin
2005
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The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Positive Reviews
61
Negative reviews
9
Average Rating
3.6
/5
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4.5
The 40 Year Old Virgin isnt quite a home run: The visually flat film leans on a pop culture crutch that probably wont age very well, and the finale wh ..
Austin Chronicle
3.0
It comes as no great shock that these three lugs loud proponents of the lay em and leave em philosophy end up learning a thing or two about love and i ..
Austin Chronicle
4.5
We want to live in harmony with nature, and tend to be shocked when nature doesnt play fair.
Austin Chronicle
4.0
Steve Carell , best known as the non sequitur spouting moron in Anchorman, plays the titular Andy, who has spent the four decades during which hes not ..
Time Out
4.0
Marking the featuredirecting debut of acclaimed TV comedy writer Judd Apatow and the featurestarring debut of in demand comic actor Steve Carell, The ..
Screen Daily
4.4
Heres a movie that could have had the same title and been a crude sex comedy with contempt for its characters.Instead, The 40 Year Old Virgin is surpr ..
Rogerebert
5.0
If it tickles you even half as thoroughly as it did me, youll walk out thinking its one of the funniest flicks youve seen in years.
E Film Critic
3.5
This movie is a refreshing change from the norm, with adults acting like adults, talking like adults and yeahbehaving like idiotsas adults!
JoBlo
2.2
The main character never progresses beyond being a cartoonish two dimensional one, while the narrative never seemed more than a cable TV sitcom that s ..
Sover
3.0
Like the uproarious Wedding Crashers, the film is funniest during its irreverent set up.
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.5
It may be the funniest ribald comedy since Theres Something About Mary.
Lariat
4.2
In short, the movie is fun to watch, but it also seems like it was fun to make not in the sense of a bunch of idiots mugging for cameras without direc ..
Eric Ds Nider
4.0
The story is quite a balancing act, equal parts tender sweetness and down and dirty raunch.
News Review
4.0
While keeping us laughing, the cast and crew play the story straight.This raw, natural tone infuses even the films most outrageous sequences the chest ..
Shadows On The Wall
3.0
Carells performance is extremely good and the script is careful to make the reasons behind his virginity believable.
View London
3.5
At almost two hours, The 40 Year Old Virgin is a tad overlong, but it never wears out its welcome.
Film Journal International ..
3.5
Carell, a television comic, delivers a marginally more grown up interpretation.
Smh
2.0
Otherwise, Virgin is just an outrageously overlong dumb sex comedy that makes Wedding Crashers look like it was written by the collective talent of th ..
Mountain X
3.8
Kofi Annan, one of the worlds most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first ..
Star Tribune
3.8
Though a funny story, rife with bawdy gems, the movie may be stretched for too long with endless variations of the central motif.
Emanuellevy
1.5
Its not for lack of talent that this lengthy (almost two hours) comedy left me cold.
Reel Talk Reviews
3.8
Ant Man and the Wasp Like its predecessor Ant Man (2015), Ant Man and the Wasp benefits substantially from its relatively low stakes.
Q Network
4.2
The 40 Year Old Virgin is a buoyantly clever and amusing comedy full of fresh gags about porn and speed dating, yet it has the wit to present its titl ..
Ew
4.5
Leave it to Judd Apatow to take a simple concept youd find in basically any sex comedy, and add his own original twist on it.
Cinema Crazed
3.0
Overlong and slightly muddled, this is nevertheless an enjoyable showcase for the superb Steve Carell.
Empire
3.8
Despite a very lowbrow premise, the profanity packed script is hilarious, and it also has a good heart.
Sf Gate
3.0
But its a tribute to all concerned that what is little more than an extended sketch delivers such side splitting laughs without ever demeaning its unf ..
Bbc
4.0
As real blood pools on Carells chest after the third or fourth swipe, you may find yourself, as Rudd, Malco and Rogen do, alternating between laughing ..
Washington Post
4.0
What does a 40 year old male virgin look like when he is not listening to confession or living in his parents basement, adrift on a cloud of bong smok ..
The New York Times
3.1
Its a good hearted entertainment with real crossover appeal, and if not a nonstop laugh riot, its comedy comes consistently and is successful enough t ..
The Movie Boy
4.0
The script (co written by Carell and Apatow) tows a steady line between lowbrow and highbrow comedy, and its one of many reasons why itll likely appea ..
Bullz-Eye
3.5
The 40 Year Old Virgin is possibly the best comedy of the year and makes the predictable, but funny, The Wedding Crashers pale in comparison.This is n ..
Reeling Reviews
3.8
The 40 Year Old Virgin is possibly the best comedy of the year and makes the predictable, but funny, The Wedding Crashers pale in comparison.This is n ..
Reeling Reviews
4.5
But the film expends so much effort making fun of Andy that it ends up undercutting the sweet humanity thats trying to bust out.
Flickfilosopher
4.4
Sadly, the kind of consistent humor delivered by this film happens too rarely.
ReelViews
4.0
A look at the Laugh Factorys Comedy Camp, which for more than 30 years has offered a place for at risk kids and otherwise to try their hand at stand u ..
Calendar Live
3.8
In this summer of raunchy, hilarious R rated comedies, Virgin fits right in even if the one joke premise gets a little stale towards the end.
Hollywood
2.2
Its so utterly raunchy it seems to have been designed as entertainment for a stag party.
Seattle Pi
2.5
Watching someone vomit all over the face of someone else is not something I find funny or entertaining.
Tony Medley
3.1
Since the clever, off kilter, off color, surprisingly character driven guffaws just keep coming and coming, the movie is side splitting in spite of it ..
Spliced Wire
1.5
Not much to it, but if your curiosity is piqued by the title, the goofy, guilty pleasure laughs will just keep coming.
Herald Sun
3.5
Basically, the warning on this film should be to not expect much of a plot.Thats nothing fatal for a screwball comedy.
7M Pictures
3.8
People used to move to the suburbs to save money.Now, nearly every corner of Toronto has downtown rent In Part 2 of a series looking at the urban subu ..
The Star
4.4
But this just might be the funniest comedy to come along since Mary.
Deseret News
3.5
Theres crude, lewd humour, bawdy innuendo and surprisingly plenty of heart in this bad taste romantic comedy that insists we tag along for the fun.
Urban Cine File
4.0
After Andy suffers a bit of humiliation at the hands of his acquaintances, hes convinced by David (Paul Rudd) to go out on the town for fun no sex inv ..
4.0
Its 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 ..
La Weekly
2.5
If the filmmakers had gone further out like this in more scenes it could have been better.
Three Movie Buffs
3.1
Shawnee Mission Health has started instructing its employed physicians to ask patients about their spiritual health during primary care visits.
Kansas City
1.5
Apatows creative miscalculation here extends well beyond forgetting to give his characters much to do: He made a comedy thats just not very funny.
Film Racket
1.9
No one is funny, though many try.The production and acting feel empty, out of the groove.
Ross Anthony
4.0
A pleasant surprise, The 40 Year Old Virgin stands apart from other gross out comedies mainly because of how it deals with the films main theme.
Matts Movie Reviews
5.0
Instead, it affords a realistic look at arrested development among all its characters, not just the easy target title role.
The Filmy Ap
3.5
Mr. Carell and Mr. Apatow traffic in random humor and though their ability to sustain it is impressive, its at the expense of any real emotion.
Big Picture Big Sound
4.5
A smart script, incredible performances (with NO celebrity cameos), and a perfect blend of heart and hilarity make The 40 Year Old Virgin the perfect ..
4.4
The 40 Year Old Virgin movie is touching because you want this guy to succeed.
Waffle Movies
3.8
Poor production values, uninspired direction and clumsy storytelling should sink any movie, but The 40 Year Old Virgin stays afloat through sheer auda ..
Montreal Film Journal
3.5
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
4.5
Carell and Keener have nice chemistry that is missing in a lot of romantic comedies. But that relationship is surrounded by a very raunchy, yet funny, ..
Bowling Green Daily News
3.8
As a star vehicle for Carell, as a raucous R rated gigglefest, even as a sentimental date movie, it hits every target at which it aims.
Flip Side Archive
4.5
The 40 Year Old Virgin is not just the best comedy of the year, its one the best films of the year, and one of the funniest Ive ever seen.
Future Movies
4.5
For all the sniggering humor, theres an honesty about both the fascination and fear of sex, and the sacrifices we make for love.
Stream On Demand At Home
3.5
The gleeful button pushing is much more timid in its exploration than the unveiling of romantic anxieties in Virgin, its comedy much more strained Woo ..
Cine Passion
4.5
Pulling off a comedy about a middleaged virgin isnt as easy as it sounds.
Archive Spectator
4.5
Within its very mainstream, crowd pleasing confines The 40 Year Old Virgin is actually a pretty enjoyable confection with a high gag quotient.
Patrick Nabarro
4.0
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Film Force Ign
4.3
Lots of people in the Seattle area look to Vancouver for an example of what works, or what doesnt.
Seattle Weekly
4.0
Virgin wants to have it both ways, it wants you to be its bitch in the bedroom and a lady the rest of the time.And to its credit, it actually succeeds ..
The Tyee
2.5
If you stick it out to the end, though, youll be rewarded with perhaps the most random musical number ever to hit celluloid.
Seattle Times
4.0
Aside from Elliotts sprightly direction and unsentirnental soript.
The List
3.8
The actor (and co writer) takes full advantage of the opportunity by delivering a raunchy comedy that also has an undercurrent of sincerity to it.
Lj World
0.5
An infuriatingly offensive, soft porn primer on how to treat girls as objects who exist at the disposal of men.
Town Topics
2.0
Underneath all this idiotic crap, inconsistent characterizations, and plot points that are never developed, there is actually a warm, moving story
Ny Theatre Wire
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