True, yes.
Although, I think your comparisons are slightly lacking. I mean, the point of the 40 year old virgin was that this guy was so nervous around women, that he had never been able to approach one for a date, never mind have intercourse with one. It wasn't called the 40 year old premature ejaculator, or the 40 year old erectile dysfunctional or the 40 year old who was unable to ejaculate.
Plus, he never experiments with men, as she does with women.
The main character in this film has had sex, or made love, whatever you want to call it, but she has never had an orgasm. This film has her sort of overcoming her problem at the beginning of the film, yet is unable to reach an orgasm when with a partner.
I agree that it doesn't seem funny, but then again it kinda doesn't focus on the fact that she cannot get an orgasm, but more on the fact that she isn't really in love with the guy she is married to.
I quite enjoyed the film, I dunno why, as I thought I would hate it and I didn't. That, and the fact that I could watch Parker Posey all day, as she was stunning in this film, really attractive, and way more interesting than Mischa Barton. I felt like shouting 'you idiot!' when her husband begins an affair with Barton's character. (Off topic, boy, has Mischa Barton's career gone nowhere. Those recent pictures of her looking emaciated are disturbing, to say the least.)
It could also have involved the husband more in the whole situation, maybe allow him to help also, but it does kinda send her out to do the work on her own. Ah well.
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9 years ago
I'm not sure what the main character's looks have to do with it being an enjoyable film. Content over vapid-ness is important.
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