Certainly not the best film of the year, but funny

Rating: 6/10 (27 November 2005)

40 year old virgin is about, wait for it, a 40 year old virgin. He seems quite happy, he works in a shop that is a bit like my work - though we don't get to watch movies like they do. He plays computer games and watches Survivor and has a grand old time. His workmates find out he is a virgin and decide to help him get laid. The story was rather predictable and dragged a bit in the middle but it was still quite funny. Not hilarious though, I have read reviews in magazines that say it is the funniest film all year. No. (Now, even though Napolean Dynamite is technically a movie from 2004 it only came out in NZ this year so that is my pick for funniest movie of the year, by far, with Nestle's Milky Bar). Where was I? Oh yes - considering most of this film was improvised they did do a good job. The scene where Andy gets his Tom-Jonesesque chest waxed was real. I will file this under the same category as Anchorman and Wedding Crashers - only worth watching again if shown on TV, and then maybe as background noise.