just saw the 40 year old virgin
So I was driving back from My Mom's 62nd Birthday. I got caught in traffic 80 miles from home, so I decided to kill some time by seeing a movie.
I get to the theater at 7:40, there was a 7:35 showing of The 40 Year Old Virgin. Normally I would avoid a movie with the title The 40 Year Old Virgin. But my brother, Lorin, had liked the movie, so I took the plunge.
The movie started off with a dumb bonner joke, followed soon by an uncomfortable not especially funny poker scene. I was getting ready to make fun of my brother for his appalling taste in movies. I even started thinking of ways to work in living in LA with terrible movie choices. Then something startling happened. Something strange and frankly a little amazing. The movie started getting funny. Not just wincing at an uncomfortable situation (although there was some of that). This movie was really funny with genuine funny jokes and good gags. Then there was a touching romance as well. How was a movie called The 40 Year Old Virgin having interesting character development and really funny non-juvenile humor (well some juvenile humor too)?
The movie suffered a little from too many ending but the last ending was really funny (the other fake endings no so much). Usually when a movie has more then one ending I want to write the director telling him he has to choose when to end a movie and not have extra endings after he’s had what should have been a movie ending scene. But this time I thought the last ending made up for the annoyance of having extra endings.
This was the second time this summer I’ve gone into a movie and seen a movie much better then I was expecting (The Wedding Crashers was exhibit B). Now looking at the movie’s numbers I’m expecting to see The 40 Year Old Virgin 2 - Born Again Virginity, but who knows given how much better this movie was then I thought it would be maybe Born Again Virgin will be worth seeing.