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Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 204
Fresh: 179 | Rotten: 25
Deftly balancing vulgarity and sincerity while placing its protagonists in excessive situations, Superbad is an authentic take on friendship and the overarching awkwardness of the high school experience.
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 6
Deftly balancing vulgarity and sincerity while placing its protagonists in excessive situations, Superbad is an authentic take on friendship and the overarching awkwardness of the high school experience.
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Operating under the assumption that by procuring alcohol for an upcoming party they will finally be able to break their longstanding losing streak with the fairer sex, socially inept high school seniors Evan (Michael Cera) and Seth (Jonah Hill) set out to secure the adult beverages that could get them off of the geek list before they even attend college orientation. Evan is a bright young student whose outward sweetness belies his suffocating fear of heading off to college without his lifelong
Aug 17, 2007 Wide
Dec 4, 2007
$121.5M
Sony Pictures/Columbia
All Critics (204) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (186) | Rotten (26) | DVD (22)
What makes the film so appealing is the disconnect between what comes from the mouths of these hormone-addled pups and what's going on in their heads, where they're still clinging desperately to the innocence they're leaving behind.
[Cera] has some of the best comic timing of anyone working in film today, a precocious sense of the awkward pauses and misread cues in which social panic resides.
This is the funniest picture since Borat, and more emotionally nuanced than you would expect.
A critical mass of these kinds of flicks argues for a new subgenre: "nerdsploitation."
'Superbad': 'American Graffiti Redux,' only updated with the usual raunch and a major penis fixation
A four-letter raunch-a-rama with a heart.
Honest goodwill, fond observational detail and Greg Mottola's exuberant direction make the picture nigh on irresistible, but there are some missteps.
The affable trajectory covers enough guffaws to balance out the flattest visuals this side of The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Like all Apatow productions, it's far too long but it has a winning combination of cleverly crude humor and genuine sweetness.
The comic-duo of Jonah Hill and Michael Cera reminded me of an immature, foul-mouthed Laurel & Hardy.
even if Superbad's not much more than a teen comedy, it's the best teen comedy to come out in at least a decade. There's no shame in that.
Thanks to Rogen and Apatow we can once again look forward to seeing R-rated comedies.
a fresh air
Raunchy enough, but it lacks some of the subtle wit and verbal sophistication that has always distinguished Apatow's finest comedies.
Audiences who've laughed their asses off at Rogen's other work will be pleased to know that Superbad is not just another teen movie.
The thing that saves Superbad from being a profane waste of time is its urbane intelligence and above all, bracing honesty.
Although the cop characters run out of steam a bit towards the end, the metrosexual relationship between the leads stays fresh all the way through. Brilliant.
I laughed all thru this fun movie. Movies like this I generally dont like but had a blast watching this one.
May 4, 2008Super Reviewer
Pretty good, high school fun, with a nice say about honest living, really. It's got a heart!
May 5, 2012Super Reviewer
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