Writer-director Nolan Lebovitz's debut film Dr. Benny might amuse people who find the idea of a 28-year-old virgin gynecologist inherently funny. But Lebovitz squanders what minor possibilities his premise offers, wasting Timothy Dowling's likable turn as the shy physician, and blowing off a sensitive examination of how anatomical expertise and romantic attraction relate. Instead, he milks laughs by having characters end every other sentence with the word "vagina," a.k.a. "the snack shop next to the garbage dump." Dr. Benny is uniformly broad: Lebovitz relies on forced perspectives and whizzy camera moves, and he gives minor characters wacky ethnic accents in order to ramp up the zany. The hero's hang-up involves his inability to talk to women, but the fact that he has no trouble chatting with his overweight receptionist indicates where Lebovitz's head is at where female desirability is concerned. (Further cues: When Dowling talks about the best-looking vaginas, they're inevitably attached to gorgeous women. What luck!) Dowling meets love interest Jennifer Jostyn early in the movie, but he's already beholden to the theories of a Tyler Durden-esque sex guru played by Josh Holloway, whose explanations of how to attract women by "manipulating energy" boil down to the old cliché of chicks digging aloof bad boys. Dowling does attract more women when he starts acting like he doesn't care, but the one woman he really wants doesn't fit into Holloway's program. All the sex-therapy and "energy" stuff is a contrived barrier to the leads' true love, and while it's far from the dumbest obstacle in romantic-comedy history, it doesn't enrich the story, especially since so many character-based impediments might have been explored. Lebovitz never really explains how his meek doctor became the way he is, or how he got his own practice at 28, or why a decent-looking professional with a good personality can't get a date. Aside from some nice chemistry between Dowling and Jostyn, Dr. Benny lacks any spark of personal feeling, a fatal flaw in a movie that isn't attempting anything more ambitious than that.