Men are dicks. Especially when they’re trying to get one of their kind laid. It’s better yet (i.e. more sporting and therefore more dickish) when that one is a virgin. Best of all, when that one is a middle aged, bicycle using, figurine collecting serial nerd. Like Andy (Steve Carell). He works with David, Jay and Cal in an electrical store when they discover that Andy never quite got around to having sex. Now they understand that he’s not the potential postal-killer they once suspected him of being, the boys embark on a hilarious mission to pop the cherry of their new best friend. Cue rollicking adventure of misanthropy disguised as misogyny dripping in gross domestic humour. And deliciously gross it is. 40 Year Old Virgin is a teen romp for adults, Porky’s updated for mortgage belters with in-store pornography, dildos and waxing sessions. Reversing PC norms to tell non-PC jokes (it’s ok for dicks to be offensive because they’re dicks, ok:?), first time director Jude Apatow helms a script he co-wrote with Carell and largely succeeds. The crude jokes fly thick and fast while Andy’s character has enough curve to keep the emerging love story interesting. You come for the sex and stay for the romance yet, disappointingly, 40 Year Old Virgin blows its load too soon. When it becomes clear that there’s only really enough material for half a film, the view skews toward Andy’s stumbling relationship with his good woman (Catherie Keener). It’s all down-hill from there. Like the beer-n-pizza movie it is, 40 Year Old Virgin is a crowd pleaser, but one that leaves you hungry for more. // COLIN FRASER