Believe the Hype - Funniest writing in Years

Rating: 8/10 (29 August 2005)

For us adults - both guys and ladies - this movie is for us. While having some of the same premises as your basic teen-sex romp (dweeb dude trying to get laid) it is done very smartly, and while raunchy certainly, is never mean-spirited towards women or men. Steve Carrell plays, of course, the 40-year-old virgin and while having those virgin/dweeb characteristics, is oddly MUCH deeper than the stereotype of the "guy who can't get laid." In addition, the surrounding cast is hilarious - his co-worker buddies, his boss, the women/situations that pop into his life - all done in a very adult, raunchy but SMART way. Hell, your wives will even like this, guys! Mine scolds me for MY tongue, but she was laughing throughout the film. Go see it in the theater for that camaraderie experience - this is one of the rare films in recent years that will NOT leave you thinking you wasted $9 and two hours of your life.
For the younger viewers (17 and under) I'm not saying it's too raunchy - heck, GTA is 100x worse and you get more misogyny out of most music. I'm just saying that you won't get a lot of it - you think you will, but you won't. You have to have reached adulthood and lived (yourself or vicariously) through some of this (because a lot of the film is NOT necessarily about the main character) to understand.