Hilarious

Rating: 9/10 (18 January 2006)

The 40 Year-Old Virgin is one of the crudest things ever to hit the big screen, and one of the funnyest of the year. The 40 Year-Old Virgin also has a very sweet ending, very, very sweet. That seems more than a little uneven and a little disappointing, in fact it might have worked better to have an ending that was similar to the rest of the film. Or they could have done the ideal thing and made the whole film have moments of sweetness. The film is none the less well written and the performances by Steve Carell and Catherine Keener are exultant, and I haven't laughed so much in a long time. The film also has a slight problem of using one joke many, many times. It may have some other good jokes but the one about him being a 40 Year-Old Virgin is use way to many times. All in all a hilarious film but an uneven one to and not one to race to see.