A guy who has not grown up and is a "40 year old Virgin." Rides a bike to work & collects action figures

Rating: 3/10 (14 July 2006)

THIS MOVIE WAS BAD! The script was amateur and the acting by Carel was poor and uneven. Steve Carel is great in, The Office TV series. But, in 40 year Old Virgin, he was uncharismatic and uneven. There was no "ring of truth" to the performances any of the characters or the story-line, which was as hackneyed as it could possibly be. There were, of course, at least a few funny moments (jokes that worked) and a few laughs. The attempted ethnic humor was quite heavy hitting and simply trite, not funny. It came off as racist without any of the requisite humor to justify it. The director must be largely to blame for this film's failures, but the script did not give him much to work with. It seemed an amateur attempt at best.
The oddest thing to me is that it is a huge financial success and in being so, there is no incentive to not make crappy unfunny movies of this kind.
Adam Sandler's movies are often guilty of some of these same short comings but at least he can be genuinely funny and you can like and sympathize with his characters enough to forgive the poor script and direction. The 40 year Old Virgin has none of the charm of an Adam Sandler film and all of the short comings.
This is one to miss. Instead, rent Sandler's Big Daddy, again, at least you know what you are getting.