The film The Fourty Year Old Virgin fills one with dread. A movie about a 40 year old overgrown geek, Andy Stitzer played by Steve Carell, whose co-workers suddenly decide that they must help him bust his cherry.

And yet, this film managed to be funny without being disgusting or insulting. It did not resort to cheap and stupid laughs, instead it managed to reach the line, dance on it like a tightrope walker and stay on it. The first 3/4 of the film are about the desperate attempts Andy takes to finally rectify a 25 year old itch. The last 1/4 of the film is a romantic commedy. The first 3/4 is better, but the last 1/4 satisfies the moviegoer.

This is a fun movie, that’s a date flick for the happily married or happily settled …