A good feeling comedy that is actually funny

Rating: 8/10 (24 February 2006)

Judd Apatow is at his first big screen movie, and he hits it right. 'The 40 Year Old Virgin' was an unexpected success on screens last year and it deserves it. The story of an aging geek who spends a mediocre sex-less life who is pulled by his work fellows into manhood and finds real love on the way could have fallen easily either in vulgarity, or in sweet and false romantics, or worse into boredom. 'Virgin' falls in none of these traps, it plays right most of the time by building a credible action, being sexy without becoming gross, and filling the time with a lot of memorable situations and one-liners. The two principal actors Steve Carell and Catherine Keener are not too famous either, but they succeed better than most of the first rang comedy stars in Hollywood lately to build a couple that has chemistry and makes us care about. The last 15 minutes of the film are maybe too expected, like the script suddenly ran completely out of ideas and borrowed from another thousand of Hollywood comedies, but the final musical like singing brings back the smiles viewers will end with watching this movie.