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...supposed to be a meritocracy. It's for the good-looking and the born-to-famous-parents and those brave enough to make out sloppily on reality shows. At the very least, the merely talented are supposed to spend years struggling until they're discovered. But Seth Rogen--a fat, awkwardly old-man-ish 16-year-old kid in Vancouver--went to his first local audition and got hired on NBC's Freaks and Geeks. And now, having just turned 25, he is the lead in one of this summer's biggest romantic movies. By the end of next year...
...first time you'll see Rogen will be as the angelic, dopey face on the posters for next month's Knocked Up, a movie written and directed by Judd Apatow, the guy who cast him for Freaks and Geeks. It's the same strategy Apatow used to sell his movie The 40 Year-Old Virgin: Put a huge unknown face in the middle of a billboard and hope people get curious. But at least Virgin's Steve Carell looked vaguely like a handsome leading man. Rogen doesn't. So the arc of his career makes little sense to anyone, including...
Andy clerks in an electronics store, and his co-workers (Paul Rudd, Romany Malco and Seth Rogen)--once they discover his chaste condition--become determined to cure it. But although they are experienced, they're not what anyone would call mature. No less than Andy, they live in fear of women, although they express it as contempt. Emotional virgins, they would be incapable of offering, as he does, a plausible and rather wistful little speech about how he happened to give up in his efforts to woo and win girls. (Instead he has built up a world-class collection...
Carell is Andy, who stars in the film’s title role. Andy lives in an apartment full of friends (in other words, collectible action figures) and works at Smart Tech, a Circuit City-style store. When his co-workers David (Paul Rudd), Cal (Seth Rogen), and Jay (Romany Malco) learn his about his embarrassingly uneventful sexual history, they set out on a mission to get Andy laid. Andy is reluctant but starts to think about conquering his sexual anxiety when he meets Trish (Catherine Keener...
Despite Carell’s top-billing, this is much more an ensemble piece. It doesn’t hurt that Rudd, Rogen—who Apatow mined from the aforementioned TV shows—and relative unknown Malco are natural comedians. Rogen portrays the sarcastic semi-tough guy with just the right attitude. Rudd plays a sensitive but jaded and spurned lover/stalker as a combination of his character in Anchorman and just about every other nice-guy role Rudd does. Malco is given the hardest task—to portray the overused stock character, “playa?...