Posted on 06/04/2007 10:50:30 AM PDT by finnman69
the crowd where I saw it was mixed and everyone was laughint out loud. In fact I missed some good lines there was so much laughing.
I saw The 40 Year Old Virgin 2 weeks ago. Lordy, I could not stop laughing! That was some funny shizzle!
I also have to disagree with the assessment that this hit rock bottom in crudity. Yes there are dirty jokes, lots of them. But the banter between the characters is just so so good, the writing was excellent. Almost every line was a memorable line. Very much in the style of wedding crashers and 40 year old virgin. refreshing to have a comedy w/o Will Ferrell BTW. Many actors from 40YOV are back in this movie.
Another comparison I made, is in real life this movie is not likely to happen, but isomehow the 40YOV story was.
Loved this movie.
I imagine it’s a stupid movie just like so many out there.
It sounds like a good exhibition of typical Boston-area college kids. Complete idiots who will eventually want everything that conservatism has to offer, but only “someday”.
While they are young, they pride themselves in liberal-everything, until forced to deal with the aftermath.
I love Steve Carell but 40 year old virgin was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. The F bomb was dropped so many times it was ridiculous and I’m no prude. I turned it off after 30 minutes.
It’s hilarious, but I hard a hard time getting past a young, beautiful, focused, ambitious Katherine Heigl going for the slacker, dope-addled Rogen character. She’d have been better off having the baby on her own.
She hit the nail on the head. There IS this very strong pro-life message, but they really went overboard with the graphic nature of some of the scenes. Also the profanity: the f-bomb just isn’t funny. The only times I’ve seen the f-bomb actually carry a funny scene came during “Planes Trains and Automobiles”, and “GlenGarry Glen Ross”.
But the continuous profanity kept draining my sympathy for these two. You root for Seth Rogan because you just know he’s going to come around, but getting there is so painful at times, it’s almost not worth the trip.
I’ve been a big fan of Judd Apatow since “Freaks and Geeks”, but I think he sold out to the “gross-out” genre instead of building a great movie around smart - not tasteless - dialogue and imagery.
I am embarrassed to say that I actually bought that movie.
I thought it was funny the first time, but the second time around, it was just too much....and I am not very picky at all.
I loved Wedding Crashers, Old School etc.
The Bruce Almighty sequel looks good though.
Agreed, totally unbelievable. But hilarious anyway.
It definitely was a chick flick in disguise.
Freaks and Geeks....I remember that. Great show.
Hilarious but meaningful movie. I saw it with a friend and will see it again with my husband soon—the movie is sort of repulsive in a lot of ways but it also definitely presents abortion as a repulsive, horrifying “solution.”
(I don’t use foul language, ever, but didn’t even notice the movie’s bad language, really.)
Hey, they went for it. It was a R rated movie, and it will still end up being a huge huge hit.
I didn’t think there was all that much cursing. Just a lot of dirty jokes and dirty references.
Agree, agree! Profane but smart, hilarious dialogue.
If you liked GlenGarry GlenRoss, you'll love this.
Glen & Gary & Glen & Ross (Warning: Extreme Profanity, but very funny)
I thought Ben’s transformation from uncouth loser to employed, protective, decent, nice guy was believable. By the end of the movie he was even actually attractive and worthy of the goddess in all respects. (And, for the record, this is a woman’s point of view.)
Yeah, I saw the previews for that - it looks cute but I’ll probably wait to rent it. At $10.00 a pop I’ve become a bit more discriminating in the movies I go to see.
What’s good about the movie is that its pro-life message is hip and potent and will be delivered to an audience that usually hears only the opposite.
Do you not have a local dollar theater? It costs 2.50 at a theater in Wichita with the movies coming out a month or so after they stop playing elsewhere.
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