40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)

Let's be realistic.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

A nice teenager film. the good point - the chemistry between Shannyn Sossamon and Josh Hartnett. in rest, the expectation of the end of celibate and the love story evolution. but , like many films of same genre, many flaws, a sacred event of a Christian life as pretext, unrealistic situations, teen humor, a not real inspired end. sure, for a precise target , it is the perfect choice. but , for the other categories , it remains a too easy film.

After his girlfriend dumps him Matt goes through a lot of meaningless sex that makes him feel bad,so in order to give himself time to recover he decides to give up sex and anything to do with sex for Lent.I liked the idea, but the movie ended up being a disappointment.Josh Hartnett is pretty bad in this movie. I can't think of any other movies with him, but considering that I know his name he did a few, so he might be a good actor. But this movie really doesn't show it. I wonder if he even knew it was a comedy, because he sure didn't act as if he did.Actually besides having a more or less original idea for a romantic comedy the movie didn't go too far from it. The joke was pretty much the same all through 90 minutes. And it was also stupid. It was the kind of sentiment I would expect for a teen movie, but the characters in this one were in their 20's, the whole "omg the poor guy can't live without sex" thing is just dumb. And this is what the whole movie was about, exaggerated and annoying.Also, while I think sex themed comedies can be very funny. Only this one was trying to be romantic, and this is what made her sexual theme fail. Some of the jokes were off, and seemed more vulgar than funny for the genre. Actually the only time I laughed was at the Bagel Boy.The story was not well thought through. It makes no sense whatsoever to me why Erica was mad at Matt about the whole abstinence thing. It's not like he decided not to have sex ever again in his life, or that it was a personal insult to her or that he was supposed to tell everything about himself on one date only. Silly. Same as the ending. I don't want to spoil, but what happened with Nicole was in no way funny. And it was also pretty unnecessary, one could have done it better without it.

I'm not really sure why I never watched this when it first came out. All my friends had crushes on Josh Hartnett, so they rushed to watch it. I on the other hand never made it through, but I did manage to go see Hollywood Homicide in the theater. Anyway, this movie is full of people from the late 90s that were huge, that now I'm not sure what they are up to. Shannyn Sossamon, Paulo Costanzo, Michael C. Maronna, Vinessa Shaw. Okay, I have seen them in some other things, but they are not nearly as big as they were back then. Quick summary, Matt is having trouble sleeping with random women because he is hung up on his ex, Nicole. He decides to give up all things sexual related for Lent, to kind of cleanse the pallet. RomComs being what they are, he almost immediately meets a girl that he could really be into. It wouldn't be such a huge deal, except he has given up all forms of sexual activity, including kissing and masturbation. Holding off on sleeping with someone for a little over a month doesn't seem that crazy, but not even a good night kiss?!?! Long story short, I'm not sure if it was really that god, or if it just made me nostalgic for the time when I was as free as the characters.

I am so sick of seeing these boring comedies with no real story, no real laughs and horrible actors. Why waste your time.So a boy is obsessed with his ex girlfriend and he tries to get over her by having sex with lots of other girls, but he has trouble being with other women cause he's haunted by his ex. He then decides he's going to become celibate and all of his co-workers know he's a horn dog so they start a betting pool to see if he can make the entire 40 days he had set out to go.During this time he meets another girl and finds hes falling for her and he tells her he doesn't have sex which freaks her out, and meanwhile all the girls in on the bet try to seduce him and his ex comes back into his life and yada yada - predictable yawn-fest with no laughs.Josh Hartnett kinda sucks as an actor, hes a young talentless Tommy Lee Jones look-a-like and then we have co-stars like Shannyn Sossamon, who is a boring Angelina Jolie wanna be and Paulo Costanzo who is a younger looking annoying Jon Stewart look-a-like and then god forbid that I compare the horrible Maggie Gyllenhaal to anyone because no one is that special brand of ugly that she is - she looks like a grandma and isn't even 30.This movie was stupid and worthless, I never got his motives and I don't think it was cute and sweet enough to be considered romantic comedy, and it wasn't young enough to be a teen comedy and no one over 17 would wanna watch it, so who's the audience... 2 stars and thats being generous.