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August 19, 2005

Steve Carell Is Ready To Blow

Ordinarily I would say there is nothing funny about being a virgin, but with Steve Carell [from NBC’s The Office] “coming in” to play the part, his new film, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, is sure to keep you wet…with tears of laughter that is.

Steve Carell plays Andy Stitzer, an off-kilter invoice stamper at an electronics store who seems to have everything going for him other than the fact that he’s never had sex. When his co-workers, played by Anchorman alum Paul Rudd (from Wet Hot American Summer) and Seth Rogen, find out he’s a virgin, they take it upon themselves to help him get laid. It’s not until he meets Trish, played by Catherine Keener from The Interpreter and Being John Malkovich, that he finally gets close to climax. The only catch is that they have a strict no-sex policy, which does little to alleviate his tension. The clever dialogue and perfect comedy timing of Carell, combined with raunchy sex humor create one of the funniest films of 2005, next to The Baxter (written and directed by and starring fellow comedian and pal, Michael Showalter), which comes out later this year.

Ebert and Roeper give The 40 Year-Old Virgin two “big thumbs up,” and Roeper calls it “one of the summer’s biggest, most pleasant surprises.” So run, don’t walk, to this film because “the longer you wait the harder it gets.”

Posted by Lance Buckley at August 19, 2005 09:39 AM

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