2008 Woodie Awards
'Virgin' gets it on with the box office
Chris Pierdomenico
Issue date: 9/6/05 Section: Entertainment
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After stealing scenes from Jim Carrey in 2003's "Bruce Almighty" and Will Ferrell in 2004's "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy," Steve Carrell has finally landed a starring role in one of this summer's funniest films.
Carrell plays Andy Stitzer, a single, middle-aged man who seems to have everything he could ever want in life. He has his own apartment laced from top to bottom with rare comic books and action figures still fresh and untouched by human hands. He has a comfortable job working as a sales clerk at an electronics store.
He spends his nights out watching "Survivor" or "The Apprentice" with his elderly neighbors upstairs. Not to mention, he gets plenty of exercise because he doesn't drive a car; he rides his bike everywhere.
Andy's friends from work know that he's not really much of a chick magnet, but they are really in for a shock when, during a poker game, Andy accidentally reveals that, for the past 40 years of his life, he has never had sex - he is still a virgin. Soon, all of his employees find out his secret and Andy becomes the subject of ridicule at his workplace. He flees, embarrassed and humiliated, but his friends attempt to make it up to him by promising him they can "get him laid."
After meeting a series of very strange women, Andy finds himself falling for a mother of three named Trish who works across the street.
Andy's friends rejoice that "this could be the one," but after Trish's kids walk in on them being intimate, Trish asks Andy if their relationship could be platonic: no sex at all, until their 20th date. Andy is delighted by this idea, considering that he has no experience and now has no pressure. But by the time the 20th date rolls around, will Trish accept Andy when she finds out he's a virgin? I walked into "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" anticipating Steve Carrell to play a character similar to the brain-dead Brick Tamlin from Anchorman.
At first I was a bit disappointed; "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" does not have the wall-to-wall laughout-loud gags that "Anchorman" did. While Brick Tamlin had me laughing till I cried, this was not the case with Andy Stitzer.
Carrell plays Andy Stitzer, a single, middle-aged man who seems to have everything he could ever want in life. He has his own apartment laced from top to bottom with rare comic books and action figures still fresh and untouched by human hands. He has a comfortable job working as a sales clerk at an electronics store.
He spends his nights out watching "Survivor" or "The Apprentice" with his elderly neighbors upstairs. Not to mention, he gets plenty of exercise because he doesn't drive a car; he rides his bike everywhere.
Andy's friends from work know that he's not really much of a chick magnet, but they are really in for a shock when, during a poker game, Andy accidentally reveals that, for the past 40 years of his life, he has never had sex - he is still a virgin. Soon, all of his employees find out his secret and Andy becomes the subject of ridicule at his workplace. He flees, embarrassed and humiliated, but his friends attempt to make it up to him by promising him they can "get him laid."
After meeting a series of very strange women, Andy finds himself falling for a mother of three named Trish who works across the street.
Andy's friends rejoice that "this could be the one," but after Trish's kids walk in on them being intimate, Trish asks Andy if their relationship could be platonic: no sex at all, until their 20th date. Andy is delighted by this idea, considering that he has no experience and now has no pressure. But by the time the 20th date rolls around, will Trish accept Andy when she finds out he's a virgin? I walked into "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" anticipating Steve Carrell to play a character similar to the brain-dead Brick Tamlin from Anchorman.
At first I was a bit disappointed; "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" does not have the wall-to-wall laughout-loud gags that "Anchorman" did. While Brick Tamlin had me laughing till I cried, this was not the case with Andy Stitzer.
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