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Superbad (DVD, 2007)
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This isn't the best movie I've ever seen in my years of movie-going, but it was hilarious. I fell in love with Michael Cera when I watched this movie, although McLovin keeps with me, many months after watching it. You'll find yourself quoting things out of this movie - I was a skeptic when I watched it, and I'm still quoting it now, over a year after it's release. It might not be the most family-friendly movie, but for getting together to watch a comedy, Superbad is a great choice. Judd Apatow films are generated towards a certain audience; those who can appreciate a lazy lifestyle, those who lead a lazy lifestyle, or those who think lazy (but witty) humor is funny. I give it a B+
'Superbad' is "Supergood." We have been graced with another Judd Apatow-produced raunchfest; with the truth of the way-above-average teen comedy far from disappointing. A movie arriving on a tide of comic enthusiasm. 'Superbad', which was directed from Greg Mottola (The Daytrippers) from a loquacious script by 'Knocked Up' star Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, has inumerably funny moments; so many in it's first acts alone. It's also blessed with a trio of superb comedic performances by its young leads that should secure them each long and healthy acting careers. The film has a dearth of truly original ideas. It's a picture that seems overly in love with every last one of its comic bits; whether they're amusing or merely nostalgic. Rogen and Goldberg first wrote the script when they were teens and it's clearly jammed with autobiography (they even name their leads Seth and Evan), and it shows that Mottola and Apatow did quite the "extra" cherry-picking to keep things moving swiftly as they always do. For Apatow, that's no great surprise, considering his last two efforts (as Writer/Director), 'Knocked Up' and 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin', brought a package filled with big-huge, audience-friendly laughs. While it's being touted as this decade's 'American Pie', 'Superbad' holds a one-day setting; making it more like a genitalia-obsessed 'American Graffiti', spiked with a boatload of cheerfully vulgar chatter. The movie follows a pair of childhood buds — the chubby, volatile, sex-crazed Seth (Jonah Hill) and the gentle, Dartmouth-bound Evan (Arrested Development's Michael Cera)— on a knuckle-headed mission to lose their virginity before senior year ends. Along with a third pal, the intrepid nerd Fogell (scene-stealer Christopher Mintz-Plasse), these high schoolers muddle their way through a wild and unique series of obstacles en route to a cool kids' party where said "virginity loss" seems like a sure thing. On this wacky journey, parts of Fogell's nerve-wracking assignments are to score the evening's booze which provides some major guffaws. The film gets so much mileage from this goofball's fake ID, which identifies him as a 25-year-old Hawaiian resident named "McLovin", it's practically its own character. Dually successful are the pair of assinine Cops; played by Rogen and SNL's Bill Hader, who endlessly intersect with Fogell. These so-called Law Enforcers are so irresponsible you hope it'll turn out they're not Cops after all. On the flip side, as the adorable classmates who horndogs Seth, Evan, and "McLovin" each set their sights on, Emma Stone, Martha MacIsaac, and Aviva are ideal, with MacIsaac's drunken seduction of Evan a go-for-broke treat. At the film's core is a poignant message about teen male friendships that smartly balances the bawdy nuttiness that surrounds it. It's a testament to Hill and Cera's acting abilities that they pull off their squishy final moments together as nicely as they do. If they're not best friends in real life, you could've fooled me. 5-Star A++++ Guaranteed Success !!!! Extremely Fun !!!!Read full review
It seems dated now and immature, but all of the actors, in particular Hill and Cera, give it a lot of appeal. This is a very funny movie, if you don't mind the material. I've always liked Emma Stone, and it was real nice to see her.
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Normally I love a good teen comedy. I have seen Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Porky's, Mallrats, Roadtrip, ..... more times than most people can tolerate. But this film was just horrible. The storyline was weak at best. It appeared to me that they were either attempting to remake "Dazed & Confused" or "The Stoned Age" or some film similar to these, but became lost in the process. There was even a scene or two that reminded me of the film "Supertroopers". If it was a straight to the internet film, I might give it a higher rating, but consider this was a major studio release, much more is expected. If you have never seen it before, it is worth watching once, but only if nothing is on the tube at all. (Hell even a rerun of "The Golden Girls" is better than this movie.) That is just my opinion on it. I know many people thought it was a great film, but I think I will stick with my type of comedy, and maybe stick "Grandma's Boy" into the DVD for the 200th time.Read full review
Superbad is stuck together out of pretty standard stuff. It’s another iteration on the Fast Times at Ridgemont High clone genre, another story about a pair of losers who want to get laid before they leave high school and set off for college. It tries, valiantly, to set itself apart from the pack by making the bosom buddy friendship between those losers the focal point of the film as a way of getting us invested in them, but personally I never bought it as anything other than a slightly more entertaining than usual teen raunch-com. The losers in question are Seth and Evan, played by Jonah Hill and Michael Cera respectively. Superbad follows them on a night of hunting booze and poon, that as they so often do, goes totally awry and leaves them lying in vomit somewhere. Both Hill and Cera are supremely talented comedic performers, but much of the time they’re completely wasted here on dialogue that can’t seem to get over a bad case of Tourette’s syndrome. It’s an R-rated raunch comedy so you expect a lot of vile, over the top profanity but Superbad takes it to an entirely new level; substituting frequent uses of the words “cock”, “balls”, and “fuck” for actual jokes. Profanity simply for the sake of profanity is only funny for about 5 minutes, unless you’re under 12 and have never watched cable television. Sadly, that seems to be all there is to the story of Seth and Evan, and while they have a few funny moments most of it is lost in superfluous cursing that says nothing and soon wears out its welcome.Read full review
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