Score! Reviewing the reviews: 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin'

Given the offbeat topic, you’d think it would be easy to come up with a clever, sardonic headline for a review The 40 Year-Old Virgin. Unfortunately, many writers came up with the same clever headline, so what looked like ”virgin territory” was anything but, as you’ll see below.

• Great Minds Think Alike:
• New York Daily News: It’s funny ‘Virgin’ territory
• Boston Globe: Crass but funny, comedy perceptively explores ‘Virgin’ territory
• San Francisco Chronicle: Hilarious farce explores virgin territory
• Philadelphia Inquirer: Virgin territory for comedy
• Louisville Courier-Journal: Comedy ventures into virgin territory
• Kansas City Star: ‘Virgin’ territory

• He shoots…:
• Santa Cruz Sentinel: ‘Virgin’ Scores
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Leading man Carell scores big in ‘Virgin’

• Twice the bang:
• Village Voice: The Opposite of Sex — These boots were made for knockin’: Steve Carell finally loses his virginity in fratty chick flick
• Dallas Observer: Cherry on Top — ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin’ gets a heart-on while telling wonderfully dirty jokes
• (Warning: this link contains profanity.)

• Channeling Madonna:
• Ottawa Citizen: Touched for the very first time
• Myrtle Beach Sun News: ‘Virgin’ has trouble finding groove

• Nudge nudge, wink wink:
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Better to abstain from ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin’
• USA Today: ’40-Year-Old Virgin’ makes out quite nicely
• Lawrence Journal-World: ’40-Year-Old Virgin’ consummates comic concept
• Akron Beacon Journal: Bedtime Story
• Chicago Tribune: Worth Waiting For: ‘Virgin’ a showcase for Steve Carell
• Los Angeles Daily News: Give it up for this ‘Virgin’

• Wait a minute, you’ll get it, sort of:
• New York Post: Nothing to celibate
• Philadelphia Weekly: Virgin Records

• Cream of the crop:
• National Post (Canada): The Thrill of the Chaste
• Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Virgin Mirth
• Montreal Gazette: Pure as the driven schmo
• L.A. Weekly: Sex and the Pocket Protector

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