When Erotic Thrillers Go Wrong: The Failures Of ‘Jade’

“Be David Caruso in Jade.” 

This is the advice Seth Rogen’s character gives to Steve Carrell’s character about how (not to) pull women in the 2005 sex-comedy The 40-Year-Old Virgin. With this advice from a hapless, sex-crazed stoner in tow, Steve Carrell goes on, excruciatingly awkwardly, to chat up a woman, exhibiting a complete lack of basic social skills and sexual chemistry. Perhaps nothing has summed up Jade better.

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