Overall didn't live up to hype. Although Carell is pretty funny he's not funny enough to make up for the rest of the cast's lack of improv skills.

Rating: 5/10 (25 August 2005)

The 40 Year Old Virgin was an OK movie it didn't live up to it's hype or advertising. I feel it's in the same Genre as Wedding Crashers but Wedding Crashers was much funnier due to Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson just being hilarious and their improv abilities. Which brings me to why 40 year old Virgin wasn't very good. You could tell there was a lot of improv and it wasn't very good. I know Judd Apatow is known for letting people improv but you have to have people who have the talent to do it because not just anyone can be funny and improv. The acting was really bad for the most part and when people are trying to improv and they don't know what to do they start swearing which is why I think this movie had so much swearing that wasn't needed at all. With the exception of Steve Carell the actors in this movie just weren't funny It was like they were all competing to be funnier than the other. It's kind of like the saying to many chefs spoil the soup I think that's what happened here. To effectively improv you need a few hilarious people who can improv and then the other actors just play off of those people staying within their abilities. Carell did have some hilarious parts and his comedic timing is pretty good. I also found for such a large budget movie the editing in this movie was horrible. For example when Carell is yelling at his co workers girlfriend telling him to check his ho and stuff all the sudden the camera switches to something else in the store and then the girlfriend has just disappeared it didn't flow right. Then there was a seen in the ebay store where the kid was trying to buy something and it was totally random unfunny and not needed, what were they thinking. Overall I'd give it like a c- letter grade it's a rent worthy movie but definitely not worth shelling out ten bucks at the theater.