Grade: A- | Genre: Comedy Summary: This is a guy film with a heart, which is as hard a thing to pull off as Andy mastering the condom. The 40-Year-Old Virgin wraps that puppy around the banana with side splitting style. Is there anything a teenage boy struggles with more than trying to pawn off his virginity? Forget the acne or the mouth filled with railroad tracks, these are simply well crafted hurdles that stand between him and that sex-obsessed touchdown. After countless solo flights and fumbling bra clasps on her parent's couch, that fateful day finally arrives and it's usually well...something a tad short of earth shattering. It usually takes practice, the loving relationship and yet more practice to get the rhythm and technique to the point where it's actually enjoyable for both parties. Sadly, you can't just lay this out to a hormonally challenged male. He came to the party to do a keg stand, and damn it if he's going to wait for some other party to get his drink on. So compound that by a hundred after living a lifetime of build-up and awkwardness. The 40-Year-Old Virgin is every teenager's worst nightmare. That he'll miss his window and end up with his prime a distant memory, still clutching onto his cherry that he's been furiously wagging before every woman who has ever pricked his attention. Be ready for some ridiculous laughs, likeable characters and moments decked out in brash sincerity in this shrewdly crude film.

In the breakout performance of his career, Steve Carell (the Office, Anchorman) plays Andy, a loveable dork who obsesses over collecting action figures, still in their original packaging mind you, and rides his bicycle to his high schooler job. Not only does he ride his bike everywhere, he safely tucks his pant leg into his sock and does the appropriate hand signal when turning. The guys he works with at the electronics store are short a couple for their weekly poker game and invite him out. The topic ultimately finds its way around to sex, and its up to Andy to give up his nastiest sexual experience. He flounders around like a beached whale, comparing women's breasts to bags of sand. The scene is perfectly executed because it spins out like a group of teenagers sitting around trying to figure out who has gotten down and dirty and who is still spinning the bottle. It's not really something you can fake. Andy is outted, and the boys make it their mission in life to get Andy laid. He couldn't have found three more dysfunctional man-boys to lead him into the promise land.

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He manages to initially duck hiding the salami with Trish through her mandatory "20 dates with no sex" policy, but that 20th date just looms on the horizon like a cataclysmic tornado waiting to tear up his trailer park of happiness. Keener is perfectly cast as Trish. We believe every step of the way that she is falling for this loveable dork as she tries to sift through to love while finding someone who would be a good father from her two girls. Casting is superb all around. Steve Carell embodies this character, adding a cup of goofy, a tablespoon of sweet and a pound of sincerity. This could have easily sunk into a bawdy comedy with one long line of sex jokes, but the producers wisely choose to take the high ground and balance out this sensitive subject matter. While there's no question that this is incredibly fertile ground for comedy, if you actually were a 40-year-old virgin, would you want your life portrayed as one big farce? Believe it or not, there are case studies of people out there who fit into this category that Carrell studied before taking on Andy.

This is a guy film with a heart, which is as hard a thing to pull off as Andy mastering the condom. The 40-Year-Old Virgin wraps that puppy around the banana with side splitting style, and after its huge opening weekend, shows the R-rated comedy can take the Cineplex hostage in the waning day of summer. I don't think it will rise to that classic status that Wedding Crashers will, but it may just have legs to make it happen. It is definitely cruder than Crashers and really caters to the male audience. We get the staple adolescent "well I know you're gay because" conversations, a smokin' hot babe steaming up the screen by putting her shower head to good use, and those embarrassing moments that only a group of guys can share with one another then never let you forget. I think the over-the-top bawdiness of the film does take a little something away from it, but the envelope does need a little pushing every now and again. Be sure to checkout this raunchfest to relive that awkward moment, fumbling around in the backseat of your dad's Impala, one more time.