
Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) are turning 40. But instead of celebrating, they're mired in a mid-life crisis with unruly kids, debt and unhappiness mounding. Pete's record label is failing and Debbie is unable to come to terms with her aging body. As Pete's 40th birthday party arrives, Pete and Debbie are going to have to rely on family, friends, employees, fitness trainers, aging rockers and ultimately each other to come to terms with life at age 40.... (Full plot summary below)
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Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) are turning 40. But instead of celebrating, they're mired in a mid-life crisis with unruly kids, debt and unhappiness mounding. Pete's record label is failing and Debbie is unable to come to terms with her aging body. As Pete's 40th birthday party arrives, Pete and Debbie are going to have to rely on family, friends, employees, fitness trainers, aging rockers and ultimately each other to come to terms with life at age 40.
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| Film Journal InternationalDaniel EaganThe Judd Apatow comedy formula might be wearing a little thin, but he still delivers more laughs than most of his competition. |
| We Got This CoveredJonathan LackThis Is 40 exhibits none of the pacing problems that held back Apatow's previous features, and builds to its simple, moving conclusion with extraordinary precision and clarity. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA frolicsome, funny, and thought-provoking film about a couple's midlife crises and how it affects their marriage, their family life, and their sense of themselves. |
| OK! MagazinePhil VillarrealJudd Apatow plunges the stage of life for all its ample misery, just the way he did adolescence in Freaks and Geeks and quarterlife angst in Undeclared and Knocked Up. |
| Metro Times (Detroit, MI)Corey HallThere is a profound tone deafness to This is 40, yet another overly long, overly whiney and overly crude exploration of Apatow's bloated ego... |
| Shared DarknessBrent SimonA mismanaged mess that feels less a panoramic study of modern adult- and familyhood and more like a series of tasked self-reflections for which its creator doesn't have the stomach. |
| MetroActiveRichard von BusackThis Is 40 (40 minutes too long, that is) is getting at something, but it doesn't get there by 40 miles-not more than 40 people outside L.A. will understand it. This is not a refinement of the frat-pack comedy as much as a tombstone for a subgenre. |
| AV ClubNoel MurrayA few broadly comic moments aside, This Is 40 also captures the rhythms and concerns of real life in ways that slicker Hollywood comedies don't. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaThe most satisfying example yet of why Judd Apatow's become such a formidable comedy brand in recent years. |
| Jam! MoviesJim SlotekThe characters' arc is ultimately sweet and self-aware. |