Frustrated TV writer turned red-hot feature-film writer-director Judd Apatow further refines the combination of gross-out frat-boy yucks and chick-flick feelings he first explored in his massively popular but overrated debut, THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN. And while not quite as funny or sweet as the Farrelly brothers at their best (THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY, STUCK ON YOU, ABOUT A BOY), it's a big improvement.
No longer living with his parents but surviving on the settlement he received when a mail truck accidentally ran over his foot 10 years earlier, chubby, schlubby out-of-work slacker Ben Stone (Undeclared's Seth Rogen) has little direction in life a...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
129 mins