The forty year old virgin is unsurprisingly about a forty year old virgin who is worryingly like me (I wont say if I'm a virgin or not however since my family reads this stuff). And as you can guess from the cast, the movie unfolds into a rather typical romance story with some great laughs and great characters with a lot of baw conflict moments and lots of male fail along the way. It's pretty standard fare but if you enjoy this stuff already you'll enjoy this movie without question.
Well...what to talk about then...erm...it's really hard to break down such a simple and generic film.
I guess I'll just bitch about the length, cause holy fuck! I'm not sure what the actual running time is, but this movie seemed to go on for fucking ever and hardly anything really happened (but actually thinking about it Knocked Up, I Love You Man and Forgetting Sarah Marshall had really long running times too [they are all great movies, as well]).
We get spectacles of the cast doing their thing (we've got Steve Carell being weird and awkward [and a virgin], we've got Paul Rudd being the nice sweet, possibly gay bro who provides balance in all the stereotyped sex obsessed men around him and skinny Seth Rogan [I don't believe the fat one is the same guy, they don't even have the same voice] being a vulgar pothead with a heart and Leslie Mann as the insanely cute but emotionally unstable drunk in the nightclub), then the typical fumbled sex and nightclub scenes kick in for a huge chunk of the movie, then we start getting onto the relationship aspect, then everything starts to go right, then it goes wrong but it's all happy in the end.
You thought you could do a movie like this and it'd be over in a flash but fuck me it dragged, but it's worth it just to get to the bit where Elizabeth Banks masturbates in the bath and dances around in her bra suggesting you do her in the ass.
Of course, just because it seemed to go on forever didn't mean I didn't enjoy it, I like pretty much every movie with Paul Rudd in it, if I was ever to go gay, for even a second, it'd be for this man. I mean who knows what he's like in real life (I don't care enough to find out), but in movies this dude is always lovely. I watch half of these shit movies made for retards just because of that guy. I fucking love him. No homo, well maybe a little. He gets his shirt off in this movie! Woo!!
Oh well, errr, that's all I can really say. It's a movie that tells sexually frustrated teens everywhere it's okay to be a virgin and selling your action figures (which are apparently stopping you from getting laid) will make you a rich man. This isn't a deep or rich film, it's just something simple and fun. Simple entertainment. And there is nothing wrong with that, it's just fucking hard to talk about anything in it.
But should you watch it? Well if you haven't, thank you! I was worried I was the only guy left who hadn't seen this movie.
Think about it!
-Locke.
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