This Is 40 - Movie Reviews (2024)

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 4, 2023

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 21, 2022

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 20, 2022

This is 40 does a fantastic job of balancing some salty humour with bittersweet drama. Intimate and easily identifiable, this is likely to strike a chord with Generation Xers everywhere.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 8, 2022

While there's humor to embellish the more serious elements of disgraceful aging and a marriage coming undone, it's not enough to be overwhelmingly hilarious.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 2, 2020

It is a film that falls victim to Apatow's most self-indulgent tendencies as a filmmaker.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

"This is 40" limps along, carried by the charm and charisma of Rudd and Mann, until it reaches a lazy, simple conclusion.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jul 11, 2020

If Apatow makes us squirm while we laugh along, then he's probably hit the nail right on the head, and he hits that mark dead on more often that not. It's one of his finest and most mature works to date.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 6, 2019

A roll-call of comic talent, none of whom are able to break free from their tired moulds.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 9, 2019

Apatow knows just how to make us laugh at things we might otherwise dread.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 18, 2018

The movie is sweet, funny and smart, on par with Apatow's other productions and resulting in a humorous, heartwarming holiday theatre pick.

Full Review | Oct 22, 2018

The film goes through spells where it pleases, others where it plods.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2018

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

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2017

Worth seeing but a bit of pruning wouldn't have gone amiss.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2017

It's a little silly, sometimes too pointed, and overly long, but at its heart are perceptive observations about the challenge of long-term relationships, raising a family, and turning 40 -- some of which will ring true for many of us.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 24, 2016

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

Full Review | May 5, 2016

Apatow's descent as a storyteller is continuing, and his ear for comedy isn't at its peak.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 17, 2016

There's a shrillness that is admirable in theory but rather off-putting in practice. It's just not very funny.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

If this is what 40 is like, someone needs a reality check.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 15, 2013

You get the impression this should have been called Here Are Some Things That Judd Apatow Is Thinking About Right Now, In No Particular Order.

Full Review | Jul 13, 2013