The 40 Year Old Virgin

Despite its dangerously dumb title The 40 Year Old Virgin is not the crude sex comedy you might expect. Steve Carell plays Andy Stitzer who suffers from the unfortunate affliction described in the title, and the world being what it is, has to find an urgent cure with a little help from his friends. Perhaps the title flags up the adult (as opposed to adolescent American Pie) nature of the problem, but the resolution is a little more complicated and intelligent, and Carell shows his genius as a comic actor to the full.