Reviewed by

Christopher Armstead

‘The 41-Year Old Virgin who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and felt Superbad about it’. Yes, a spoof movie about movies that are almost spoofs in their own right, and this is a movie that is pretty darned awful. But, and while we do hate to continually beat up on Spoof Masters Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg, this movie is still funnier than their spoof movies ‘Date Movie’, ‘Epic Movie’, ‘Meet the Spartans’ and ‘Disaster Movie’ combined. Mind you we wouldn’t shat on Seltzer and Friedberg if their spoof flicks had gone the route of Straight to DVD where they belong, just like this movie, but those cats are getting millions to make horrific theatrically released movies while the creators of ‘The 41 Year Old Virgin’ only received a pittance to offend my senses.

So Judd Apatow is the target of the spoofsation today, though other films will be aimed at for our filmmakers comedy efforts, such as ‘Benjamin Button’ and ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ just to name a few. Andy (Bryan Callen) is a virgin, a fact that gives much joy to his friends Seth (Stephen Kramer Glickman), Jonah (Steven Simms), Sanjay (Frank Maharajh) and the reverse aging Blaqguy - played by numerous black guys.

Naturally the first order of business is to get Andy laid which involves numerous scenes from the movies that film is making fun of, and while this is happening all kinds of other things are taking place such as Jonah and McAnalovin (Austin Michael Scott) trying to score liquor to engage in sexual relations as they try to be Superbad.

Trudging forward Andy meets the love of his life Kim, played by Noreen DeWulf who does seem to be getting incrementally hotter with each successive movie I see her in. Unfortunately for Andy, Kim has to run off to Maui but then he meets Sarah (Micrea Monroe) who he knocks up, kind of, not really, which leads to other stuff… Oh what the hell. Let’s just end this here.

Actually attempting to describe this movie, as I have just learned, is damn near impossible because there’s really nothing to say, since it’s all over the place

with almost nothing leading to anywhere. More heinously it violates Armstead’s First Rule of Comedy, the only comedy rule I think should actually exist and that, if you don’t know, is ‘Dookey isn’t Funny’. If you have a scene of dookey in your movie then get rid of it. Dookey isn’t funny. Never has been, never will be. While this rule explicitly only relates to dookey, director Craig Moss has taken it upon himself to exploit every conceivable avenue of human secretion in his attempts to make us laugh. And while the movie did make me laugh on occasion, I gotta say that none of those laughs came as a result of a human secretion. Farts, belches, urine, projectile vomit, blood, ejaculation, scat and more were all here and none of these secretions worked out to be funny. And I hope you aren’t allergic to watching a lot of prosthetic penises on display. At least I hope they were prosthetic...

Now as bad as this movie was, and believe me when I tell you that it was indeed terrible, as I mentioned there were occasions that it did make me laugh. The problem with that as it might relate to you is that it is pretty easy to make me laugh so take that with a grain of salt, but there were occasions when the movie was actually funny. I particularly like the ‘Michael Bay Camera Sweep’ the director pulled off on Officers Beat and Yo Ass and McAnalovin’. That Camera Sweep that Michael Bay uses all the gattdamn time in his movies was pretty cool when I saw it the first time in the movie ‘Bad Boys’ but has become exponentially less cool with each successive movie he uses it in. I also dug the ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ final dance number at the end. You might not know this but I was actually in a Bollywood movie. The when and where’s of that we will keep secret but it did happen. There were a couple of other little things that were funny in this movie but truly it wasn’t near enough to override the overall theme of unfunniness.

But as bad as it was it was funnier than ‘Date Movie’ and its brethren. And now I see those same guys are now making a ‘Twilight’ Spoof which I assume would help the funny situation if you’ve seen a ‘Twilight’ movie which I have not. This is good for me because that means I won’t to go see that movie. And remember rule number one… ‘Dookey isn’t Funny’. Never has been, never will be.