Best comedy I've seen in a long time!

Rating: Null/10 (20 December 2005)

Without a doubt the funniest film of the year, and the best of it's kind since American Pie. Steve Carrell exquisitely plays the titular prude Andy Stitser, a lovable guy who works at a Best-Buy-like electronics store and spends his free time playing video games and adding to a $500,000 collection of action figures. One day Andy is "befriended" by a group of thirty-something's who out of sympathy make it their strange mission to deflower him. What results is pure comic gold, but underneath all the chest-waxing hilarity, is a much deeper interior. In society Andy's band of instigators are regarded as acceptable, even admirable. But beneath all their womanizing, heartless misconduct is an extreme case of arrested development. These guys have never grown past the typical high-school sophomoric rhetoric. On the other hand, you have Andy, a man that in today's over-exposed world is regarded as an outcast simply because he chooses not to have sex. But once Andy meets Trish (Kathrine Keener) we realize that he is capable of a much deeper more intimate relationship than his comrades. Ironically this "outcast" is far more emotionally developed than his peers. Steve Carrel plays Andy with a gentle boyish warmth than when combined with his impeccable comedic timing produces the best comedic performance in recent memory.