Metacritic reviews

Buoyantly clever and amusing.

Virgin is astoundingly astute but also wondrously clever, written with more care and joy than any hundred comedies to come out of Hollywood in years.

It's an unconscionably funny sex farce that, by its end, turns into a tender and honest romance, an acute portrait of loneliness and, believe it or not, a musical. This is a movie Blake Edwards might have made.

Rude, raunchy, uproarious, yet with elements that are surprisingly sweet.

Funny and realistically romantic, but almost never at the same time.

Steve Carell, best known as a team player on "The Daily Show," "The Office" and such movies as "Anchorman," earns top-banana status as Andy. He is flat-out hilarious.

The Virgin script occasionally resets a gold standard for refined crudery.

Crude, sophomorically homophobic but frequently funny, pic also overstays its welcome a bit and indulges in some juvenile excesses. All told, though, The 40 Year Old Virgin delivers enough belly laughs.

Sticking to one joke in an unconscionably long film makes for a very stale, witless and repetitive comedy.

Funny in its deplorable way.