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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