Saturday, September 17, 2005

40 Year Old Virgin-Review of the hit movie

This movie gets out with a great start, although Steve Carrell's character Andy is eccentric he basically is likeable and projects a sympathetic character. Andy is a technology geek at an electronics store. He has no social life other than watching "Survivor" with his neighbors, while his co-worker have bonded very well and do all the guy things, poker night, booz night etc.
The other worker one night to decide to invite him in for there Poker night and decide that he is a pretty good guy, but with one problem, he has never been with a woman. Each of the others try to use their advise to change his luck but for the most part-- it appears hopeless until he finds a lady he seems to genuinely like him, the down to earth Liz. He all of a sudden is out of his comfort zone and his misteps lay the bed of this comedy.
The problem is, the movie does not know when to quit. In 1976's "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", Jack Nicholson gets the seemingly hopeless Billy hooked up in about 10 minutes. In 40 year old it seems more like 10 years. The movie spends too much time going into Liz's problems with her children, just what you need in a comedy. After about the first 90 minutes, I thought "OK, would you guys go to bed already".
There is a reason why the network sitcoms are usually only half an hour and 90 minutes with some better editing would have made this the perfect comedy.

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