Films like The 41–Year–Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It.

The 41–Year–Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It (2010) reads as Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / parody, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Strange Wilderness (2008) poster
1. Strange Wilderness2008

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Farce of the Penguins (2006) poster
2. Farce of the Penguins2006

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Date Movie (2006) poster
3. Date Movie2006

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5 (2014) poster
4. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .52014

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dirty Love (2005) poster
5. Dirty Love2005

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Spanish Movie (2009) poster
6. Spanish Movie2009

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dirty Movie (2011) poster
7. Dirty Movie2011

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films (2011) poster
8. Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films2011

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a heightened unreality.

Still Waiting... (2009) poster
9. Still Waiting...2009

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

FRED 3: Camp Fred (2012) poster
10. FRED 3: Camp Fred2012

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dance Flick (2009) poster
11. Dance Flick2009

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Not Cool (2014) poster
12. Not Cool2014

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are The 41–Year–Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It’s neighbours — where are yours?

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