American Pie sort of transposed into adulthood

March 11th, 2011    Posted in jewelry

Forget the title, obviously. In the recent American comedies (Wedding Crashers, Fun with Dick …), it is often behind the worst tracks (the translation does not help) that lie the most beautiful gems, jewelry precision, humor and tenderness ( and tenderness? brothel!), no French director has managed to match for ages (with the exception of Michel Hazanavicius and OSS 117), even in the wettest dreams. Wet dreams, it is precisely the subject of 40 Year-Old Virgin, those of a good guy, Andy Stitzer (played by Steve Carell) working in a hi-fi store as stock manager – he did not even privileged to be a salesman – which, as stated blandly title at age 40, is still a virgin.

American Pie sort of transposed into adulthood, 40 Year-Old Virgin incorporates most of the codes: a loser, archetypal nerd nice belated collecting action figures of super heroes, must necessarily lose his virginity, aided by his band mates (ie coworkers). Riding the wave “single in need of love” – ​​Hitch to make me feel not beautiful, there are countless avatars of this kind of comedy on both sides of the Atlantic – Judd Apatow, whose name is the credits of many recent successes as a producer and screenwriter (The Cable Guy, Ricky Bobby: King of the circuit, The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Dick and Jane) manages to overcome the two slag usually the kind that block: an infantile regression side, the other clumsy sentimentality. Like the Farrelly Brothers, whose influence is felt at every level, the strength of Apatow is not to choose between these two states: it combines them to reach beyond them. Gags to below the belt (the hero of morning erections …), almost always hilarious succession of romantic scenes with a rare tenderness, which draw, without pathos or demagoguery, sexual misery of our time together time that its possible resolution.