Plastic action figures having "sex"

Rating: 5/10 (30 December 2005)

A subplot of this movie is that the 40 year old virgin hoards plastic action figures at his home, which he never unpacks. Just like his action figures, he needs someone to "unpack": have sex and grow up. But that never really happens, because the other characters are just as much stuck in their plastic packaging. The advice of the virgin's "buddies" -- who are not friends but work colleagues from an electronics store -- makes you wonder who really needs to grow up, the virgin or them. So the morale of this movie seems to be that, even if you remove the packaging, the figure is still as dead as plastic. All of this could have been funny if it wasn't so desperate and depressing.