5 Romance Films Aimed At Men

4. The 40 Year Old Virgin

40-year-old-bir In a premise that could so easily have been an American Pie-esque "hahaha, lets all laugh at the virgin" adolescencefest, The 40 Year Old Virgin is a surprisingly smart film. It may make us laugh at the geekiness of Steve Carrell's Andy, his action figure collection and his inability to talk to women being prime examples, but no more than any other comedy lead out there. The one thing it doesn't make us laugh at however, is his virginity. Rather than making jokes at the expense of the situation he has left himself in for the past four decades, it instead brings to the fore all those situations that he and his colleagues are putting him in due to their discovery of it. Working with a group of red blooded males as he does, those situations vary from simply asking questions to "tackle drunk bitches". Needless to say Jay's more extreme examples don't go well for anyone involved, and it is perhaps by doing the opposite of what his new found friends advise that works for him. With what could possibly be one of the only on-screen relationships based solely on romance and not sex, Andy's budding romance with Trish is both embarrassingly funny and heart warming at the same time. Thanks to his new found bromance, Andy does finally use it rather than lose it, but with the one person that everyone has to agree is right for him.
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