The 40 year-old virgin
The film wasn’t that funny or particularly engaging for the first 10 or so minutes, the characters seemed flat, and there weren’t many laughs. It warmed up a bit during a poker game, where a little Indian guy got peeved off and started cussing, and pretty much developed well after that. It turned into a pretty good comedy about helping some poor sap, played by Steve Carell, to lose his virginity. The characters turn from flat to being reasonably rounded and sympathetic ones, and we all have a bit of each of these guys in us.
There are some incredibly funny scenes here, and this is definitely a good date or go-with-buddies movie. Plus this movie does for ‘Age of Aquarius’ what Anchorman did for ‘Sky Rockets’, but up by a magnitude.
The secondary characters, such as an elderly black couple, a mouthy little jewish kid with a ‘jewfro’ haircut, and a pair of angry Indian salesmen that trashtalked pretty much everyone were also quite amusing and kept up the pace.
Overall, I laughed my head off in places, and was pretty happy watching the rest. Good ending too!
OVERALL: 6.5/10