Monday, June 10, 2013
The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN (2005) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Judd Apatow
Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Seth Rogen,
Paul Rudd, Jane Lynch, Elizabeth Banks
A juvenile comedy starring Steve Carell as a middle-aged guy who lives by himself, collects action figures, rides a bicycle, has never gotten laid and thinks he never will. The story plays out in and around a big-box appliance store, where Carell's coworkers (who all have their own relationship issues) team up to give him (mostly bad) advice. Catherine Keener plays the hot-looking grandmother Carell ultimately falls for. There are some funny bits, and Keener can make almost anything worth watching, but in the end you can't help wishing the movie, like most of its characters, would just grow up.