If Your Taste Runs to Grown-up Comedy, Skip This Nonsense

Rating: 2/10 (8 June 2008)

Yes, Steve Carell is a talented guy, as are most of the members of the cast. (For my money, Carell was MUCH funnier and memorable in "Little Miss Sunshine.")
But after squirming through the first 20 minutes of "Virgin's" desperate, contrived vulgarity with not a chuckle on the horizon, I got kind of antsy. By the end of the next 10 dismal minutes, I was convinced that a) the screen writers must be nasty, snickering Beavis and Butthead types; b) there was nobody on the set with a conceptual understanding of character or situational humor; or c) all of the above. The answer, I discovered eight wasted bucks later, is "c".
If scatological potty "humor" is your cup of tea, by all means, wallow in it. Any given episode of "I Love Lucy" is wittier than this.