A beautiful foul-mouthed joy of a movie.

Rating: 9/10 (2 March 2006)

I was trying to work out why this movie works so exceptionally well, and why I enjoyed it so much. It finally hit me: it is a genuinely adult comedy. Not a film that just uses crude language (in which yes, this movie abounds), toilet humour, and sex simply to appeal to the teenage market, but one with richly observed characters and genuine heart, dealing with the subject of sex in an adult way. I think the biggest surprise was that, contrary to what you would inevitably expect from the central plot premise, the film does not rely for its humour on the humiliation of its characters. That is an almost unheard of joy in a present day film like this. All I can say is, if you get to the point where Steve Carell starts singing "When the moon..." without a huge idiotic grin on your face, then you have my pity. :-)