The 40-Year-Old Virgin (XXL Version) [DVD] [2005]

I owned this film on DVD for a while and it was time to upgrade it to Blu Ray. This was well worth the buy. The picture is a whole lot sharper and Audio much better than the DVD. This film is a very entertaining comedy.

One of the greatest comedies of the past 20 years! Brilliant film from start to finish, and all the crisper in HD.

Do not watch this through earphones somewhere like a train unless you want people to look at you. You will laugh out loud and laugh a lot. You have been warned.

Steve Carell, who provided some of the best improv in Anchorman and has risen admirably to the impossible task of filling Ricky Gervais’ shoes in the US version of The Office, should soon be as big a star as Will Ferrell. Director and co-writer Judd Apatow, the brilliant creator of TV series Freaks And Geeks, equally deserves all the success in the world. This first big project for both men is almost the wonderful movie such a pair should produce — yet it falls just short, strangely hamstrung by an overload of uncontrolled creativity.Regardless, if you don’t leave The 40 Year-Old Virgin with a goofy grin playing across your face, it’s time to stock up on Lithuanian fishing documentary DVDs and book yourself a regular slot on Newsnight Review.This has many a moment of gross-out comedy par excellence, providing all manner of yuk for your buck. A bizarre speed-dating sequence with nipples making bids for freedom and a sly chat-up in a bookshop (preceded by the finest dating advice in history) will bring tears to the eyes, while a squirming, clearly improv’d waxing session will invite multiple howls. Carell has a natural gift for making the mundane uproarious and remaining loveable throughout (it’s a measure of his charm that his insistence on keeping cherry firmly intact never seems pathetic) that elevates even the basest comedy moments… although two morning-erection jokes is pushing it.ADVERTISINGinRead invented by TeadsIt’s in trying to be more that Apatow sadly stumbles. At the film’s centre is a very sweet story about a man choosing to wait for a woman he loves rather than give it up for one of the nymphomaniacs shoved his way. It’s like an older, yet less mature, version of American Pie. But where that balanced sweet and unsavoury, this loses its central romance amid the bodily fluids and flatulence. Catherine Keener, always watchable, is left screaming for attention as an insistent pack of testosteroney friends continually interrupt her storyline, reducing both her romantic impact and their own hilarity.

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Just got round to watching this 9-year-old film. Cost me £1.20 odd delivered, kept me entertained, some great acting from the likes of Steve Carell, but wasn't too impressed by the story, film could have been such a better film. Maybe focus on the lead characters past, or look at some of the other characters lives. Not a bad film though, recommend this to rent, although I can understand if people do enjoy this film.

Love this film - Steve Carrell at his best. Although there's plenty of gross out humour the film is actually quite touching in places. Never get tired of seeing the waxing scene! Enjoy!

Hilarious. Identified with it as a teen, weirdly enough. Still funny years later.