40 Days And 40 Nights Reviews

A crime against humanity.

I was tempted to deficate in my hand and throw it at the screen throughout the ten minutes i endured this twaddle. Poor acting, poor premise, lame script. Hartnett and the girl are pretty but if you want eyecandy go to a strip club.

The lead was, erm, wooden

A confused and clumsy movie. A shame as it had a good premise and could have been a good romance, a clever comedy, or biting social satire.

The acting was terrible (the lead was, erm, wooden), the writing idiotic, and the filming boring.

A Chick Flick in Disguise?

Obviously meant to appeal to the American Pie (young, mostly male adolescent and adolescent minded) audience and probably does - the trailers certainly directed it at this group. However, it turned out to be a bit of a romantic comedy (with a few adolescent bits to keep the target audience almost happy).

I didn't expect it to be a masterpiece of cinematography, so once the brain was disengaged it wasn't actually too bad. Not as many laughs as other similar films, or perhaps I've just grown up a bit. And the story line? Made me wish I'd lived in San Francisco when I was that age! I've never had that much temptation in my life! So a bit unbelieveable from that point of view. Also the ex was a bit too much of a stereotype to be anything close to believable. Come to think of it, most of the characters were like that. Hmmm. American I suppose.

Worth watching if you've got nothing better to do. Don't expect too much!

[Highly rated reviewer]

Cool must-watch movie...

This is a so cool, must-watch movie, and oh so philosophical into the bargain. We all got a lot of laughs throughout but it has the added advantage of making you realise what is after all probably our greatest weakness. Great adult entertainment, just make sure the kids are tucked up in bed before they start asking lots of awkward questions.

40 Days & 40 Nights

Josh Hartnett is great in this film, playing a guy pushed to his limits by a bet which in the beginning seemed like a great idea but in reality turns out to be nearly the biggest mistake in his life.

Lots of laughs and a brilliant idea for a film.

Limp

40 Days... comes on like a rowdy teen sex comedy but quickly fades into a routine and fairly mirthless 'by the numbers' rom com.

Shame because its choc full of hot women and the lead guy is likeable. Bit of a wasted opportunity all round.

Rubbish!

Yeap it was total rubbish. The first 15 mins suggested it might pass as viewable, but we eventually had to switch it off through tedium. A very rare event for these film watching fans. A 7 for this is such a wasted 7!

A crime against humanity.

I was tempted to deficate in my hand and throw it at the screen throughout the ten minutes i endured this twaddle.

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The Worst Film I've Ever Seen

Not only is the whole film not funny but how do people miss the fact that someone was raped? And then had to apologise to the person who should care about them the most! I've never seen a worse film that was supposed to be funny and I can't understand how it got past writers, studios, producers, test audiences not to mention how the actors could make the film and not notice, is it just because a woman forced a man suddenly it doesn't count???

Average (Minor spoiler)

While charming and sincere this comedy never gets beyond it's original premise.

The rape scene at the end is appalling, but because this is a comedy it's glossed over, which inhonesty made me really angry because of the 'well at least he got laid' attitude of the whole movie.

On the whole though this was enjoyable and had a couple of really genuine moments and really good belly laughs.