Funniest Movie I’ve Seen in a While
When The 40-Year-Old Virgin first came out, I wanted to see it. I think I’m pretty good at judging a movie based on its trailer, and that one seemed funny to me. But then I read a bunch of lukewarm reviews, and then none of my friends thought it looked funny, so I didn’t see it, after all.
Until last week, when I rented the uncut, unrated version from the DVD rental place.
Dude – that move was so effing funny. I mean, I see why critics didn’t want to say as much. They didn’t want to admit that they found crass humor funny. (Or else, they really, really didn’t.) But I can admit that I do, so, if you’re like me and you don’t mind bad words in your comedy, you should totally rent and watch The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Every single person in the movie was hilarious. Steve Carell rocked. Seth Rogen, who I’ve loved since Freaks and Geeks, rocked. Mr. Romany Malco rocked. Paul Rudd, my former secret boyfriend (secret only to himself), made me want to take him back again.
I forced my friends to watch it with us Monday night, and I think it’s now going to replace Pulp FIction as their most-quoted film. (“That is a tasty burger” gets replaced by “Hey, hey, hey, motherfuckah!!“)
The best part is the bonus scenes, which give the impression that a lot of the script was ad libbed, and which contain some of the best lines. I’m only going to tell you one, okay? In the real movie, there’s a part where Paul Rudd’s character is looking at a DVD of The Bourne Supremacy, okay? And he says something like, “I used to think Matt Damon was sort of a Streisand, but he’s rocking this movie.” Or something like that, okay? So then, in the deleted scenes, we see him trying out a bunch of different versions of that line. “I used to think Matt Damon was a cake-eater, but…” (Shout-out to Clueless.) “I used to think Matt Damon was a…” and he says a couple of other things denoting an absence of masculinity, right? Then, cool as hell, with his trademark Paul-Rudd eye crinkling, he finishes with, “I used to think Matt Damon was a Project Fag-light, but…”
Okay, maybe you had to be there. But I laughed my ass off, and I bet Matt Damon did, too.
Summing up: If you liked Wedding Crashers, then you will *love* The 40-Year-Old Virgin. And, if you didn’t, then just don’t read this entry, okay? I am, apparently, as the cranky old critic said, an 18-year-old boy.
