If short on surprises, the screenplay has a fair share of snappy patter.
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02/28/02
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
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Reviews Counted:133
Fresh:50
Rotten:83
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: As romantic comedies go, 40 Days and 40 Nights is smutty, sexist, and puerile.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $37,885,539
Synopsis: Matt (Josh Hartnett) is having a hard time moving on six months after his relationship with bombshell Nicole (Vinessa Shaw) ended. He finds himself involved in empty physical relationships that are... [More]
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon, Vinessa Shaw, Monet Mazur
Director: Michael Lehmann
Reviews for 40 Days and 40 Nights
121 - 140 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Although not without its share of laughs, 40 Days is almost pornographic.
02/28/02
A young man vows to give up sex for Lent. Why? Because he's in a Miramax comedy that requires an immediately graspable premise.
02/28/02
Screenwriter Rob Perez knows as much about both self-discipline and Catholicism as I know about echocardiography.
02/28/02
A truly wretched sex comedy, or should we say non-sex comedy.
02/28/02
A remarkably sniggering, tawdry sex comedy...so gross and smutty that perhaps a trenchcoat should be required apparel for every audience member.
02/28/02
Shows that smutty and adorable don't mix.
02/28/02
The joke is yanked, inflated, stretched and strung out over the film's 93 minutes.
02/28/02
Even [Hartnett] can't overcome the lameness of the movie's increasingly obvious attempts to make horniness seem funny.
02/28/02
Pushes the envelope in the same goodhearted way the first "American Pie" did, relying on a pitch-perfect cast of characters to deliver some memorable one-liners.
02/28/02
There’s certainly a place for lightweight-yet-entertaining romantic piffle, and 40 Days and 40 Nights most assuredly qualifies as that.
02/28/02
It's risque, lewd, worthy of Balzac, 90-plus minutes of pretty hilarious smut.
02/28/02
A fairly perfunctory sex comedy, which is too bad because the premise is amusing.
02/28/02
Essentially as meaty as a Saturday Night Live skit-turned-feature film but is also mercifully short and pretty well-paced.
02/28/02
Along with its share of cheap comedy, it delivers a decent love story, perceptive comment on sexuality and relationships, and a breakout performance by Josh Hartnett.
02/28/02
Just a kinder, gentler teensploitation comedy, but Hartnett's Matt, at least, invites the audience to graduate to something better.
02/28/02
40 Days and 40 Nights is raunchy, and graphic, and sometimes even funny, but its attitude makes it a difficult film to enjoy.
02/28/02
...delightfully surprising freshness and soul where all the hackneyed conventions usually are.
02/27/02
Lehmann, far from the glory days of Heathers, has made a movie about a hard-on, in which he relentlessly pounds a flaccid premise.
02/27/02
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