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Review: 40 Days and 40 Nights (no spoilers)

yllus

Elite Member & Lifer
Just so you know, I never give away major plot points in my reviews, so rest easy on that account. That said, here's the story on this movie.

Cast: A group of unknowns spearheaded by Josh Hartnett of Pearl Harbour and Black Hawk Down fame. Others: Shannyn Sossamon, Vinessa Shaw, Monet Mazur, Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Synopsis: Having dogged his last serious relationship to death, Matt Sullivan (Harnett) is having trouble putting his mental game back together to move on and focus on new things (read: women). With things in his sex life finally, um, climaxing in total disaster, Matt is hit with divine inspiration - to take a personal vow giving up sex and all things sex-related for 40 days during Lent.

What makes this movie hysterical and charming is a combination of actor/actress charm, storyline and camera work. The guy is always on the run in between sequences, and he does a fair bit of tripping and falling on his ass. It's pretty funny. 🙂

There's a lot of built-in suspense to a movie with this kind of plot and that works great for keeping you interested throughout the movie. Expect a LOT of really sweet 🙂P) sexual innuendo, they stacked on hot 24-ish female actresses in tiny little summer things like nothing else. God, would I love working at Matt's company! 😀 This is probably the date movie of the year, as long as the girl you're with doesn't mind you muttering the occasional "holy hell" during any number of interesting scenes...

Action = Of the adult kind, a fair bit. 😛
Nudity = Lots!
Plot = Simple and enchanting.
Acting = Perfect, everyone played their roles to a tee.

Bottom line? It's the perfect movie to complement an evening out with your lady of the night. I did a lot of laugh-out-loud'ing and so did everyone else in the theatre (only about half full, is that because of high ticket prices these days?). Enjoyable and relaxing, go check this one out.

Official sully rating (between -4 and 12): A 7 if you're young, lonely and don't need to be reminded of people falling in love. A 10 if you have someone to take with you to watch the movie. 🙂

Edit: To add thumbs-up thread icon.
 
saw it with the GF yesterday, wouldnt recommend it. Stupid, unrealistic, and full of situations that just...wont happen. :disgust: Nice movie for some eye candy...but plot sucks.
 


<< Stupid, unrealistic, and full of situations that just...wont happen. Nice movie for some eye candy...but plot sucks. >>



Where'd you get the idea it was realistic?
 


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<< Stupid, unrealistic, and full of situations that just...wont happen. Nice movie for some eye candy...but plot sucks. >>



Where'd you get the idea it was realistic?
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I didnt. Where did you get that idea?
 


<< saw it with the GF yesterday, wouldnt recommend it. Stupid, unrealistic, and full of situations that just...wont happen. :disgust: Nice movie for some eye candy...but plot sucks. >>




hmm... when did you last see a realistic movie??
 


<< Shannyn Sossamon is hot >>


You got that right...And Ebert liked it so that's good enough for me to see it this weekend
 


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<< saw it with the GF yesterday, wouldnt recommend it. Stupid, unrealistic, and full of situations that just...wont happen. :disgust: Nice movie for some eye candy...but plot sucks. >>




hmm... when did you last see a realistic movie??
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2 nights ago.
 
very good date movie. the girl i was with kept grabbin at my arm because she thinks josh hartnett was so hot and made mention of it everytime he was on screen. But hey, at least she was grabbin and holding MY arm 🙂
 


<< Shannyn Sossamon is hot, but the movie has too many bad reviews for my liking. I'll wait for DVD... >>




She was hot enough for me to sit through A Knights Tale and that didn't even have any nudity in it.
 
I don't agree with this being a date movie.

I would TOTALLY recommend watching this movie with a bunch of guy friends. It's GEEEAARATEE!!!
 
i saw it with the wife on openning weekend, she loved the movie. it was pretty funny, we both enjoyed it. as for the reviews....you guys need to also realize that alot of these critics are on their little high horses and think this type of movie is childish or whatever because it revolves around sex. not to mention these damn critics are also old bitter bastards. any young person should be able to get a good laugh out of this movie and enjoy it.

 
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