Virguoisity good comedy

Rating: 8/10 (20 November 2005)

If you have not been de-virginized by inserting yourself to see the lauded "The 40 Year Old Virgin", then you have not reached the ultimate climax in film comedy for 2005. The laughable Steve Carell stars as Andy Stitzer, a sound-store stock supervisor who has never made love to a woman in his 40 years of dull existence. That does not "sound" very good for Andy! He has "come" close but no cigars! Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, and Seth Rogen co-star as his partners in virgin watch whom are determined to come to a means to an end to get Andy out of the morbid state of "Virginia". Catherine Keener plays Trish, the E-Bay products store owner who auctions herself to Andy as his potential "virgin breaker", or in other words Trish is the tasty dish that Andy falls for. The film is packed with side-splitting gags that are of the "sexual comical healing" material. The masturbating "hello", condom for dummy virgins, and most notably the chest hair waxing scenes will be the "hair apparent" supreme comical scenes of the year. Carell's subtle but yet magnetic performance should break him in as one of the superb comical actors of our present time. The great Keener always contributes excellent keen thespian awareness to her roles and here is no different as Trish. Rudd also contributes an amusing performance as the heartbroken porno-enthusiast David. Rudd was "porn to be alive" to play that supporting role. Director Judd Apatow does have a juicy raunchy appetite for comedy and shows that Judd is no comedic directorial dud. However, his only misfire was to elongate "The 40 Year Old Virgin's" running time 30 minutes over its satisfactory climax level. Nevertheless, Apatow & Carell which by the way also impressively scribed the film, are on their way to comedic greatness in pleasing all our comedy film desires for many years to "come". **** Good