Highly Overrated But Still Good

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

This 2002 josh hartnett sex comedy revolves around his character just breaking it off with his girlfriend Vinessa Shaw and not being able to get over it, so he decides to go on a 40 day vow of celibacy. Of course this is already extremely hard for any person who normally has sex (self or with another person) on a regular basis. But it becomes even more difficult and complicated when he meets the woman of his dreams. Enter Shannyn Sossamon. They immediately hit it off when they meet and the two actors do have pretty good on screen romantic chemistry. I liked most of the performances in this movie. It features Vinessa Shaw (hocus pocus) as his ex girlfriend that caused this whole celibacy thing and it also has a young Maggie Gylanhaal. The plot is pretty predictable, well except for one event that takes place in the last act, something I didn't really care for, kinda disturbing in my opinion. The dialogue is thankfully free of any anti gay or sexist language. I was kind of surprised by this since typically movies like this which features a lot of male sexual talk usually has slang of a discriminatory nature. But thankfully josh hartnett's character is a good enough man to rise above crap like that. The movie doesn't really cover any new ground or surprise at all, but I was mostly entertained while watching it. I'd say if you like sex comedies but want one that's not as horribly crude as Van Wilder and doesn't have offensive language then this one may be for you. 7/10.

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.

This is mostly a superfluous movie based on a rather idiotic plot idea, with not much originality in the script and rather untalented actors. I have no idea why I even bothered watching it back then. But the main reason why I gave it the minimum rating was really the unbelievable awful ending.!!! Spoilers ahead !!!Yes I will spoil the ending.!!! Stop reading already if you don't want to get the end spoiled !!!The final actions in this movie is a rape of a man who was helplessly bound to the bed, by his ex-girlfriend, and than that man seriously having to apologize about that to his girlfriend, who instead of helping him blamed him for being a crime victim.If you are seriously having trouble understanding whats wrong this ending, then just invert the genders. A woman in the place of the man would have been a rape victim, and the man as a boyfriend would have the urge to run after the other man for some serious beating up.Personally, in the position of the man, I would have immediately called the police and filed my ex-girlfriend for rape. Also immediately dropped my current girlfriend for not helping me and even blaming me for getting raped while I was completely unable to fight back at all.It the exactly the same logic as those Islamic idiots who want to stone female rape victims to death for having committed adultery. But the script authors where seriously believing the audience would buy that. What the heck ? !!! End of spoilers !!!This is definitely one of the worst endings in all of movie history.

40 days and 40 nights is not a masterpiece. That has to be stated first. It's very shallow, filled with smut and a bad script. But I enjoyed it anyway. This is mainly because Josh Hartnett and Shannyn Sossamon had very good chemistry and it was fun to watch them together. The way they interact at the laundromat and on their first is just so natural and sweet that it nearly melted my heart. Next to that there were some mildly funny jokes. Not 'rolling-over-the-floor-laughing' but entertaining enough to put a smile on your lips. It's a movie to watch when you have a gigantic bucket of ice cream and you're in the mood for mindless entertainment. If you're the type of person who's afraid his/her I.Q points will drop drastically when watching this, avoid avoid avoid. For the rest of you, watch and be entertained.