Andy Stitzer (Steve Carell), the 40 year old virgin wakes up with a noticeable erection. He walks to the toilet but finds it hard to ‘go’ because of the erection. He finishes his business by having to lean forward. Then he walks around the house still with his morning ‘boner’. This is a great start to the movie as the laughs have already come out.
After a healthy breakfast he sets off to work on his bicycle seeing he has no car or drivers licence. He arrives at work and has a chat to his fellow work mate Cal (Seth Rogan) about the weekend. Cal was in Mexico with a few friends and they went to a ‘show’ where there was a horse ‘making love’ to a woman. It wasn’t as he expected, he actually felt kind of bad for the girl. Andy then tells Cal about his weekend. How he felt like an egg-salad sandwich so badly that he went to the shop to buy a dozen eggs and then spent 3 – 3 and a half hours making it and once he had made it he didn’t feel like it any more, plus he had no bread. This outlines the fact that Andy is lonely and doesn’t go out he just stays at home trying to fill in time.
This gets the whole movie started. Cal and fellow work colleagues David (Paul Rudd) and Jay (Romany Malco) are discussing their poker game they have organised in the store without Paula (Jayne Lynch the owner of the stores) consent. They are short one person for the game so they invite Andy although cautious of his personality because they think he might be a serial killer. After a night of drinking and poker the four work colleagues discuss their sexual experiences. After Andy’s comment about breasts feeling like ‘a bag of sand’ they soon realise that Andy is a ’40 year-old virgin’. Willing to help Andy ‘score’ the work colleagues start taking him out on weekends drinking and meeting girls. Andy meets divorced and single mother Trish, owner of the ‘we sell your stuff on EBay’ store across from where he works, they begin dating and decide to hold off on sex until the 20th date. Andy gets into many troubles due to this situation.
The film stereotypes the kind of life a ’40 year-old virgin’ may lead. After the 18th date Trish is ready to have sex with Andy, still unaware that he is a virgin. She is willing to give Andy two ‘free passes’ but Andy is still unsure and unready. Trish takes it as Andy just isn’t interested in him. After a huge fight between the two Andy finds himself drunk in a room with a ‘freak’ girl of which he met at the bookstore across from his work. This ‘freak’ girl is into pleasuring herself with a shower hose. He realises his true love is for Trish so he leaves the ‘freak’ to pleasure herself.
I found the film absolutely hilarious from start to end, I was crying with laughter throughout the whole movie, and the language that was used associated to sex and virginity was very clever. I was interested in the way his unopened collectable action figures represented his virginity and how it is ‘kept in its box’ to higher its value. If I was unhappy with anything it would be the ending. I found it a bit ‘corny’ because it changed thew whole mood of the movie.
I recommend this film to any ‘sex freaks’ or even any elderly-middle aged virgins out there. I would also recommend it to anyone in the mood for a great laugh which would mainly be the people aged 15 onwards. I wouldn’t advise any ‘prudes’ or people who are offended by sexual references to watch this movie.
