The pair are looking at selling their fine home to pay off their debts and secure money for their family. She has lunch with her biological father Oliver (John Lithgow), a spinal surgeon, once every year but never remembers to call her on her birthday. She spends time making lists of things to do to make herself and her husband and family happy, but never seems able to put forth the effort to do so. Her fashion store has been cheated of $12,000 by one of its employees. Oh, and he gets a hemorrhoid.ĭebbie dislikes that her body is beginning to sag in places that it used to be tight. Pete wants nothing more than to eat whatever he wants, whenever he wants without his wife bitching at him for it. Pete's father Larry (Albert Brooks) guilts him into providing him with large sums of money to take care of his new wife and a set of triplets. He spends loads of time on the toilet (no pun intended) pretending to pinch one off while playing Scrabble and Bejeweled. Pete has been taking Viagra for 2 years to have sex with his wife. Unfortunately, their issues don't end there. Pete (Paul Rudd) runs a struggling vintage record company, and Debbie (Leslie Mann) owns a chic retail boutique with employee issues. The couple have two kids - one daughter who just hit puberty and another of elementary school age - and are turning 40 years old, that age where you are no longer young and everything seems to be changing as you begin to pass the hill's peak. This is 40 is centered around the lives of Knocked Up's Pete and Debbie. Sure, there are moments that caused me to laugh and others that made me smile, smirk, or chuckle, but if this is truly what 40 years old is going to be like, then count me out. Though marketed as a comedy, This is 40 just isn't very funny. But This is 40 was, simply stated, a bit of a disappointment. I still haven't seen Funny People, so I will withhold judgment on that one until I get the chance to watch it. Then you followed that up two years later with Knocked Up, yet another funny and charming piece of filmmaking with quite a bit of character development and depth. What happened, man? In 2005, you gave us The 40-Year-Old Virgin, easily one of the funniest and most charming films of the last decade. For some reason, there's an emoticon of a panda doing push-ups.
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