This Is 40

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This Is 40

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Released Dec 21, 2012

2h 14m

Romance

Comedy

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After many years of marriage, Pete (Paul Rudd) is the sole male in a household that includes his wife, Debbie (Leslie Mann), and two young daughters (Iris Apatow, Maude Apatow). As Pete struggles to keep his record label afloat, he and Debbie navigate a three-week course of sex and romance, career victories and financial hardships, aging parents and maturing children. They'll have to learn to forgive, forget and enjoy the rest of their lives -- before they kill each other.

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Critics Consensus

Judd Apatow definitely delivers funny and perceptive scenes in This is 40, even if they are buried in aimless self-indulgence.

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Candice Frederick

Reel Talk Online

It's like if Knocked Up was instead titled This is 35, and This is 40 were chapter two. It's just redundant.

Rated: C+

Sep 7, 2017

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J. Hoberman

Tablet

This Is 40 is intermittently funny, frequently embarrassing and, at 134 minutes, quite a bit too long.

May 5, 2016

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

It is, in its quieter way, more pointlessly indulgent than The Matrix Revolutions.

Rated: 1/5

Feb 15, 2013

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

You either take it as 134 long minutes of sweet-hearted comedy with martial strife mixed in or vice versa, namely a two-hour-plus argument between Mommy and Daddy.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 4, 2023

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Danielle Solzman

Solzy at the Movies

Despite the funny moments in This Is 40, the running time and the parts that do not age well are not doing the film any favors as it turns ten years old.

Rated: 3/5

Dec 21, 2022

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Contains enough truth about marriages and families to outweigh the irritating details of the family’s financial situation and the film’s seemingly aimless structure.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 20, 2022

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D'vante J

I couldn’t finish this movie, it’s so unwatchable.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/25

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Cooper B

Everyone is such an asshole, Pete and Debbie are the most insufferable people I've ever seen, I'm not even finished with the movie and I hate all of it, the only likeable characters are the kids and desi, some of it is funny but the rest is just rich assholes be annoying and rude to everyone around them, overall sucks 🤮

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/18/25

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Jay S

An awful movie about awful, spoiled, horrible people behaving horribly to each other and teaching their children to do the same. The only likable character is an authentically superficial escort. What was Judd Apatow thinking? Why write a script with only despicable characters? Was he trying to influence people to hate L.A.? If so, then it's a great movie. Otherwise it is a monumentally bad one.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/30/25

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Alyxia E

One of a handful of films with ratings on RT that I wildly disagree with, but one I saw for the first time before I saw how it was rated here. Thoroughly enjoyed it three times in the last 12 years, and not inclined to watch movies more than once. Love Leslie Mann, Paul Rudd and several others in the cast so much, including Melissa McCarthy's contributions. [Didn't know until the second viewing that Mann and Apatow's own daughters played the girls in the movie. Seemed like they were real sisters on screen not only because they are, but equally because they carry their roles with skill, talent, and ease. Always a big fan of their folks -guess I'm sick in the head too. ;-)

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/12/25

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Andrea K

The acting is fine in the movie. There are scenes that made me chuckle. Most of it felt disjointed and relying on shallow, cliché characters behaving in ways that didn't feel real for characters that are 40. I found myself at times wondering who was watching the kids as the two parents were off doing their own thing. Other times, I found myself wondering who much time was left in the movie. It was way too long.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/19/24

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Ernest B

We know three things for sure: the sun will rise in the east, it will set in the west, and Judd Apatow will always make an otherwise good movie 40 minutes too long.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

07/31/24

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Synopsis

After many years of marriage, Pete (Paul Rudd) is the sole male in a household that includes his wife, Debbie (Leslie Mann), and two young daughters (Iris Apatow, Maude Apatow). As Pete struggles to keep his record label afloat, he and Debbie navigate a three-week course of sex and romance, career victories and financial hardships, aging parents and maturing children. They'll have to learn to forgive, forget and enjoy the rest of their lives -- before they kill each other.

Director: Judd Apatow
Producer: Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel, Clayton Townsend
Screenwriter: Judd Apatow
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Apatow Company
Rating: R (Pervasive Language|Crude Humor|Sexual Content|Some Drug Material)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 21, 2012, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 23, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $67.5M
Runtime: 2h 14m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby SRD, DTS

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