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| ACTORS: | Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Michael Lehmann |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 March, 2002 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Miramax Home Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 786936180862 |
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Customer Reviews of 40 Days and 40 Nights
Surprisingly good. I was fairly dubious when a friend of mine asked me to go and see '40 days and 40 nights' with her. I figured she was there for Josh and the film would essentially be a vessel to appeal to the teenage-girl market. However the film pleasantly surprised me; it was witty, not overly gross and Josh Hartnett possessed comic poise.
The film's premise is really quite simple, Matt (Hartnett), a man whose been living a fairly vacuous life filled with romantic disappointment and meaningless sex decides the only way to get over his ex Nicole is to become celibate for a period of 40 days, coinciding with lent. However this proves to be very difficult as Matt falls for Erica (Shannon Sossamon) at the Laundromat. Compounded with this is every woman trying to break his vow, and every man betting on the day he'll break his celibacy.
What makes the film so funny is the series of ridiculous situations Matt finds himself in. Whilst this film is essentially one 90 minute long sex joke, it really does work. Unlike other teenpics ('American Pie', 'Road Trip') '40 days and 40 nights' has a slightly more classy approach to sex. Shock value is used at a bare minimum, and when it is it's pretty much unneeded. It is only these few moments that makes the film fall into cliched realms at times, but it is otherwise good.
Josh Hartnett is truly funny in this film. His embodiment of the slow demise of a man who is kept from sex is very funny. It was a gamble to do comedy for a man who is known for two epic war films ('Pearl Harbor', and 'Black Hawk Down'). Everyone must agree that the movement from war films to comedy is like mixing oil and water; but it works seamlessly. Other than Josh the supporting cast are all very funny, the betting scenes in particular are hilarious.
'40 days and 40 nights' is a very welcome and impressive film. Slightly more intelligent that the standard teenpic, but not intelligent enough to stop it being escapist, essentially low brow comedy. This is not only a base teenpic comedy, but also a romantic comedy. For a teenage audience the girls will love it for Josh, and the guys will love it for the girls who tempt him; and if you don't like films purely for face value '40 days and 40 nights' is a proficient comedy.
Shannyn shines...
This is a good movie - but not a great one since it suffers from several weaknesses.
The most positive aspects of this movie are its two leading stars: Josh Hartnett manages to deliver a surprisingly flawless comic performance, which I didn't expect from him since he's not exactly known to be a comedy actor. Well, he has proven me to be wrong! Shannyn Sossamon was equally great as his beautiful (though slightly offbeat) love interest. She definitely steals every scene she's in!
Among the things I disliked about this movie was the totally unsympathetic character of Hartnett's roommate ("portrayed" by the unsympathetic Paolo Costanzo who also managed to be the only negative thing I can recall about "Road Trip"). Maybe I just don't like Costanzo...sorry!
"40 Days..." main problem though is that the romance between Hartnett and Sossamon loses credibility since it never really gets time to develop. They meet twice in this laundromat and suddenly they're in love. In my opinion the writers should have given their two leading characters more time (and scenes together) to connect. What's so bad about a teen-comedy that runs 105 instead of 90 minutes???
By the way: I will never be able to really understand the ridiculous American rating system. This movie is (at least by European standards) absolutely harmless. It has been rated "12" in Germany which is the right thing to do. I watched it with the son of a colleague (he's 12) and I'm not afraid of him suffering any damages caused by this movie!
Whatever: I definitely enjoyed "40 Days and 40 Nights" and went to the movies twice to see it!
DONT RENT. DONT BUY. JUST BURN
Save yourself the 90-120 minutes and do something else with your life. Read a book, write a poem... or realize there is nothing funny about being raped. Just do not under any circumstances watch this film. It is a waste of perfectly good light and I believe it should never be encouraged.
Remember that they will stop making bad movies if we dont watch them.