USER REVIEWS:
lmbradshaw 3This movie is no "Something About Mary". Actually, it is pretty bad with only a few laughs and is simply more embarrasssing than funny. 40 year old men who ride bicycles, collect toy action figures and have never had sex are usually the suspect of todays deviant sex criminal shows rather than light comedies. Save your money.
jorgemir 7When I first saw posters around town for this I thought it was part of some elaborate joke. But then, it really came out in theatres and people were raving about it. It lived up to its hype for the most part. Made me laugh and I had a good time. Can't ask for much more from a cheesy comedy.
madmitch 8Excellent fun! We laughed all the way through this and so did the poeple around us.
bigmoviefan 9A real gutbuster! This is a guy's movie though, my girlfriend just rolled her eyes all the way through. Never loses its naive charm even though it constantly dances around sex jokes.
bball 3If you were to compile teenage boys' sex jokes/stories and made a movie with those that fell into the middle of the pack you'd have the script for this movie. It really grew very tiring with a relentless onslaught of banal humor and a lame budding romance with the usually bright & sexy Catherine Keener. After an hour of the movie I decided I could bag the rest of the movie and cut my losses.
scrappy 4Overall a typical hollywood comedy that amounts to nothing more than a few laughs and a lot of boredom as the movie begins to drag on and on and on....The end of the movie is as predictable as it is bad leaving you wishing you had turned it off half way through.
dack 8From the opening credits with Andy's morning wood it's very amusing raunch and surprisingly clever at times, too. The inter-office (and at the clubs) guy rap is whip smart, especially Seth Rogen (the stoner guy). He's also got good advice for every single dude out there: just ask questions and listen.
I was worried the movie might take a disasterously cornball turn for the worse once the soundtrack to "The Greatest American Hero" started playing, and it is less fun as the romantic comedy kicks into high gear, but (almost) all is saved and forgiven by the brilliant "Age of Aquarius" scene.
Catherine Keener is as sexy and as hot as ever with an amazing body and she's almost 46 years old for Pete's sake. I wish she were in more. Highly recommended film especially if you're a guy. I can't figure out why cin-o-matic reviewers are hatin' on it so much.
(Note to bball, whose reviews I usually agree with: try it again and watch the whole thing.)
lalligood 4While I feel that I have a rather dark sense of humor, I can at the very least have respect for other genres of comedy. I simply just didn't find "40YOV" to be funny (at least after the opening morning wood scene). It had a good story (the only reason I'm giving the movie 4 points) & was well cast but it lacked a spark (or maybe a fire) to make it enjoyable for me... I'll admit that I didn't get it. Also, the final "Age Of Aquarius" scene was worth a chuckle for the first 30 seconds but I was definitely annoyed by the time I realized that the whole song was gonna be played (and played out at that). Finally, I'll chime in on dack's comment about Catherine Keener. She looked good but she has looked better in the past ("Death to Smoochy" comes to mind...) At least there won't be a "41 Year Old Virgin" movie!
mgschatz 8I am always mildly surprised to find how a comedy hits or misses with individuals. Anyway, I need to chime in with a rave review for this one - my wife and I found it laugh out loud funny through the whole thing (but we turned off Wedding Crashers after 27 minutes, finding it predictable and not containing any laughs). I have a low tolerance for juvenile humor and dumb comedies, but found this movie to be great entertainment.
Oracle 9Hilarious! I was just expecting a big, fat, bad movie with my friends. But I, especially loved it. A very funny film.
langlitzblog 5A bit more crude than necessary, but the waxing scene more than made up for it.
shodanbro 10Ok, I'm going out on a limb and give my first ever 10. First, you either get this movie or you don't. That said, I can't think of a single movie where I've laughed from scene to scene non-stop for nearly 2 hours. I too am no 'Ho-Runner' but if the goal of a comedy is too make you laugh your off, then this one definetly wins the big illusive 10.
triple-e 3Obviously, I don't get it. I will leave it at that.
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