The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
by Judd Apatow
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Actor: Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Seth Rogen, Steve CarellDirector: Judd Apatow
Brand: NBC Universal
Writer: Steve Carell
Producer: Seth Rogen
Producer: Judd Apatow
Writer: Judd Apatow
Producer: Andrew J. Cohen
Producer: Clayton Townsend
Producer: Jon Poll
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.1; Spanish (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-13
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: The funniest comedy of the year gets a dry-hump DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
- DVD REVIEW
By the time I left the theater after watching "The 40-year-old Virgin", I was still laughing. I've seen plenty of comedies this year, but this movie is the funniest. It's probably the best sex comedy I've seen since "American Pie." Some people are not gonna like it for its over-the-top shenanigans and its ridiculous sexual content, and I'm glad I'm not one of those people.
"Virgin" needs no deep explanations to the story: Andy (Steve Carell) is a 40-year-old virgin, who works at a electronics store, and a invitation to a poker game led his worker buddies (Paul Rudd/Seth Cohen/Romany Malco) to realize that he's a virgin. So for the next 2 hours and 13 minutes, his buds are gonna try to make him put the ****y in the pedistral and make him blossom, and ultimately, he did when he meets an attractive older woman in the store, while trying to get his freak on. Not only does this film have some hilarious moments, like the waxing scene and the multiple-dates scene, but it's also heartwearing. Not surprising coming from the director who did "Freaks & Geeks", this movie is as sensitive as Chris Klein. The guys may be perverted, but they are likable, distinctive, and surprisingly, they develop; the workers try to change the virgin, but it's the virgin that changes them the most. One character I admire is the Andy's love interest, Trish, a hot granny. She's not one of those bubbly love interest like I've seen in most comedy-romances, she's like an older Allison Hannigan, just as crazy as the rest, and that's why I like her. The story is simple, but big characters and wacky situation, plus a touch of morality, kept this film together.
I was pretty polarized on the 17-minutes-longer unrated version. I've only seen the film once in theaters, so my memory isn't too good, though I can recognize three scenes that were not in the theatrical cut. There was Andy's dream sequence with the porn star, which was pretty funny; there was the one where he was on a phone talking to a Specialist about controling his erection, that I didn't care about; along with some extended scenes, the most noticeable one is the musical ending, which was too long-winded to hold the humor at pace compare to the theatrical. Did it have to be 17 minutes longer than the original version? No, it doesn't, but I'm not regretting it, which is fortunate, since this is the only version to get it widescreen.
Unrated issues aside, "The 40-year-old Virgin" is full of laughs and full of heart, so the movie alone gets five stars out of me, so why four stars? As funny as it is, it looks distracting. The DVD consists of the 2-1/4 hour movie, deleted scenes, audio commentary, and other goodies. The result of having all that extras is a very-compressed transfer. It's nice that the movie is in real 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen with the thin black bars on the top & bottom as it should, but I couldn't appreciate it because of the vast amounts of grain, slight dimness in the contrast, and noticeable halos on the characters. It doesn't make sense when I compare the DVD on "The Devil's Rejects", which has more extras with both Dolby Digital and DTS surround, two commentaries, deleted scenes, and spoofed commericals, while retaining the goodness of the video quality (all on one dvd), so what seems to be the problem here?
Speaking of extras, while the dvd is packed with bonus features as mentioned on the package, most of them are really alternate scenes, especially the easter egg found beside the "Deleted Scenes" section. In fact, the only things that aren't alternate scenes, besides the mild gag-reel, is "Waxing Doc", "My Dinner With Stormy", and the dialogue altering "Line-O-Rama." "Waxing Doc" is probably the only extra that resembles as a making-of feature, which shows how that waxing scene came to be, and I'm surprised that it was actually real. "My Dinner with Stormy" is a conversation between Seth Rogan and porn-star Stormy Daniels...let's just leave it at that without going into the raunchy details.
The alternate scenes are alright: "Andy's Fantasies" is both erotic and hilarious...somehow, I wanted that in my smut. "You Know...Gay", "Date-o-Rama", and the easter egg "Whack It" are longer versions of the scenes they originated, and they do go on for too long. The rest of the alternates are just bleh. The six delete scenes range between unorthodoxed, cruel, and overconfident for Steve Carell's role in the film, which I'm glad they were on the cutting room floor. I was intriguted by Carell's singing on the "Karaoke" scene, but that's as good as I can say. It's nice that Universal included subtitles for the scenes, and the first page of the bonus features has a "play all" feature, with or without the Apatow/Rogen commentary.
Other than the commentary by the cast and crew, the extras are a little disappointing, in which it could've benifited a making-of documentary or something behind-the-scenes. Let's not forget the poor video transfer of the DVD. But then again, all that good stuff could've make this into a double-sided dvd, as a standard to Universal DVDs, and I rather have a one-sided DVD with poor video quality, than having a quality double-sided disc and risk getting it scratched on either side.
This DVD has problems, but for the most hilarious movie I've seen in a long time, I've come (*snicker*) to tolerate them. Everyone with a sense of humor must watch this movie, unless you're a kid, so you watch it and blame your parents. It's a touching story of a man never been touched, and his goal will touch the people who will care for him...non-sexually speaking, of course.
This is Del Keyes, saying "NO, KELLY CLARKSON!!"
Description of The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Andy Stitzer (Steve Carell) has gone 40 years without "doing it." Now his pals are making it their mission to help him score... fast! Can he survive their hilariously bad advice? Will he land in the arms of the way-too-experienced or the way-too-drunk? Or can he find true love where he least expects - from a gorgeous grandmother (Catherine Keener)? With additional footage too bold for theaters, The 40-Year-Old Virgin now packs even more outrageous comedy! Starring: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Leslie Mann, Jane Lynch, Jonah Hill, Loudon Wainwright Directed by: Judd ApatowBestsellers in DVD
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