Know how I knew you were gay? You like Coldplay.

When I first saw a preview for The 40 Year Old Virgin I thought "oh god, this is going to be a total train wreck." The concept of the movie just sounds like an outright bad idea. The kind of thing guaranteed to be juvenile, unfunny and tedious. But then I started reading reviews, and they were good!

So I went to see it. And it was good!

I know. Seriously. I consider this to be a monumental achievement in film. This movie had so many ways it could have fallen over and been terrible, and they were all expertly avoided. I'm still in a bit of shock.

Some ground rules: this is low brow humor. Think Will Farrel in Old School (also known as: Will Farrel toned down so he doesn't overpower the material.) But the movie manages to be sweet with it's low brow humer. I never felt truly bad for the title character, and I never felt like the movie was making fun of him. The movie likes the guy, and even respects him a bit. That tone makes all the difference with a concept like this.

Plus, it helps that Steve Carell is frickin hilarious. I miss when he was on The Daily Show. Hopefully this movie will get him some more work and we can all laugh with him more in the future.

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