Is this supposed to be funny?

Rating: 5/10 (16 November 2005)

Well is this movie against pre-marital sex after all? Anyway if it's supposed to be a comedy it should make me laugh which it did only 3 times during the whole projection and even so very mildly. The rest of the time I was bored watching the tribulations of a 40 year old guy who reached the age of 40 without having sex in a time and a society where many people seems to begin having it at 14. We never know why this happened (shyness, impotence, lack of libido or opportunity?). As a counterpoint to that we have to put up with the stupid utterances and dialogues of three nincompoops who are job mates of the virgin and supposedly his counsellors on how he should get deflowered since they are supposed to be sex experts. All the time I was thinking on how this theme could be dealt with by someone with the genius of a Woody Allen for instance, with his intelligent direction, witty dialogues and scenes full of real humour including some portion of subtle eroticism without having to resort all the time to four letter words and explicit sex scenes. Well but since Judd Apatow is no Woody Allen and we cannot ask a thicket to give pears, that's what we have here I mean a movie where except two or three well achieved scenes all the rest is merely so-so.