These days, you can pretty much use the terms "buddy-comedy" and "Judd Apatow movie" interchangeably. The truth of the matter is, the guy has made a bunch of successful, hilarious (albeit sexist) films. While he's by no means the first person to pair a dorky guy with a lovely lady, there's no denying that the members of Apatow's mafia are some of the most beloved actors of the past decade. It should come to no surprise that one of his many protégés, Undeclared's Jay Baruchel, landed the starring role in She's Out of my League, the latest buddy-comedy to hit theaters. This film, however, boasts a different director, a cast of relatively fresh faces, and, remarkably, slightly less misogyny. Yay!

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The latest slightly-misogynistic-but-not-enough-to-be-unfunny buddy comedy, She's Out of My League, is miraculously not directed by Judd Apatow, but does star one of his discoveries, Jay Baruchel (Undeclared, Knocked Up, etc.). He plays Kirk Kettner, a frumpy-yet-happy airport security agent who catches the eye of a flawless girl and spends the duration of the film struggling to understand why such a perfect creature would be interested in him. In League's most memorable scene, Kirk's friends convince him to "manscape" his crotch, and (spoiler alert!) while we don't get any full frontal action (a la Jason Segel in Forgetting Sarah Mashall), we do see a shot of Kirk's entire backside. There's also a pretty gnarly scene in which, through a sequence of only-in-a-rom-com events, an enormous dog licks Kirk's (clothed) crotch to no avail. At a press junket this weekend, we spoke with Baruchel about acting in these humiliating scenes, as well as his experience co-starring in the upcoming Nicolas Cage film, The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Tags: Jay Baruchel, Nicholas Cage, She's Out of My League, The Sorcerer's Apprentice