The 40 Year Old Virgin

Starring: Steve Carell
Directed by: Judd Apatow

The big difference between 2004 and 2005 is summer movies. Last year it was action and suspense (The Day After Tomorrow, Troy, The Bourne Supremacy, Collateral, The Village) and this year, it is comedy (Wedding Crashers, Bad News Bears, Dukes of Hazard, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). Like the Wedding Crashers, The 40 Year Old Virgin is loaded with gut-busting laughs. It's a comedy that is true to its title. You know your going to laugh...hard.

Steve Carell (who is perfectly cast) plays Andy, a 40 year old who lives by himself surrounded by action figures and works at an electronic store called SmartTech. Life for Andy is boring and pointless. And when a small secret of his (him being a virgin) is spread out into the open, Andy’s life is going to be changed for good.

A bunch of his co-workers decide to help him out. We don't know if it's for laughs or because they really do care. All they care about is for Andy to get laid before it is too late. Sure, Andy has his opportunities. He is in several situations where drunken girls surround him. But he soon begins to fall for Trish (Katherine Keener), who works at We Sell it for you on Ebay. The store is exactly what you think. Andy and Trish begin to bond and he questions whether or not he should tell her he is a virgin.

The movie is surprisingly sweet as well. Behind all its crude humor it still finds time to make a sweet and lovable story. But with that of course, there is at least 3 laugh out loud jokes per minute in this movie that is up with there with Wedding Crashers as one of the funniest movies of year.