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Superbad (2007)

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Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 205
Fresh: 180 | 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.

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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 48
Fresh: 42 | 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

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Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg

Dec 4, 2007

$121.5M

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All Critics (206) | Top Critics (48) | Fresh (187) | 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.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: NPR.org
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[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.

September 22, 2008 Full Review Source: The New Republic
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This is the funniest picture since Borat, and more emotionally nuanced than you would expect.

January 4, 2008 Full Review Source: CNN.com
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'Superbad' at its best goes right through knockabout to land in deliciously obscene places - notably a staggering succession of doodles in which tumescent cocks take on various extraordinary guises.

September 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out
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A critical mass of these kinds of flicks argues for a new subgenre: "nerdsploitation."

August 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Denver Post | Comment (1)
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'Superbad': 'American Graffiti Redux,' only updated with the usual raunch and a major penis fixation

August 24, 2007 Full Review Source: Passionate Moviegoer | Comment (1)
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It's a simple tale about two horny kids not only on a quest for vodka, beer and sticky fumbling, but they're looking to find themselves in the process. I'll be damned if there's many people left in the cinema afterwards who won't relate to that.

November 3, 2012 Full Review Source: TheShiznit.co.uk
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Honest goodwill, fond observational detail and Greg Mottola's exuberant direction make the picture nigh on irresistible, but there are some missteps.

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Sight and Sound
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The affable trajectory covers enough guffaws to balance out the flattest visuals this side of The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion
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Like all Apatow productions, it's far too long but it has a winning combination of cleverly crude humor and genuine sweetness.

April 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
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The comic-duo of Jonah Hill and Michael Cera reminded me of an immature, foul-mouthed Laurel & Hardy.

September 4, 2008 Full Review Source: The Scorecard Review
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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.

July 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Paste Magazine | Comments (3)
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Thanks to Rogen and Apatow we can once again look forward to seeing R-rated comedies.

July 22, 2008 Full Review Source: Watertown Daily Times | Comments (3)
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a fresh air

April 24, 2008

Raunchy enough, but it lacks some of the subtle wit and verbal sophistication that has always distinguished Apatow's finest comedies.

April 10, 2008 | Comments (13)
San Francisco Examiner

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.

March 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Washington City Paper | Comment (1)
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The thing that saves Superbad from being a profane waste of time is its urbane intelligence and above all, bracing honesty.

February 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Colorado Springs Gazette | Comment (1)
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Audience Reviews for Superbad

I laughed all thru this fun movie. Movies like this I generally dont like but had a blast watching this one.
May 4, 2008
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This takes a page from Sixteen Candles, updates it for 2007, and elevates it to the max in this hysterical and heartfelt tale about some losers trying to have one epic final party before graduating and moving on to the next step.

It's quite a simple set up: Evan and Seth have a chance to finally get laid, and all it's gonna take is a bunch of booze. That's where geek Fogell comes in. He's got a fake ID, but what should be a quick trip to the liquor store turns into a wild adventure that nuts keeps getting nuttier and nuttier as it progresses.

I've enjoyed this movie ever since I first saw it, and with each viewing, I've come to appreciate it more and more, and it has really grown on me as being truly brilliant. I'm not kidding. This is one of the best films of its decade, and really is more than just a vulgar teen comedy. It is quite bawdy, but it's hilarious, well written, has tons of heart and character, and is done rather thoughtfully and intelligently, which is great since it sure doesn't seem like it would be this way initially.

Christopher Mintze-Plasse steals the show as Fogell, better known by his ID name of McLovin, Emma Stone made her terrific debut her as the object of Seth's affection, Michael Cera puts another notch in his belt as the straightman Evan, and Jonah Hill owns as the larger than life Seth. Let's not forget the great supporting roles by Bill Hader and Seth Rogen as the world's most inept but cool cops, and great That Guys like Kevin Corrigan and Joe Lo Truglio.

Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen's script is dynamite, and really captures teen life (especially the wild side) quite nicely, Greg Mottola provides some great direction, and the music is just wonderful. It also makes me smile that the film owes a few debts to the 70s, specifically blaxploitation.

All in all, this truly is a gem. It's unbelievably funny, surprising, and utterly charming...even when it's being lewd. Now that says something.
August 27, 2007
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    1. Seth: I am truly jealous you got to suck on those tits when you were a baby.
    2. Evan: Yeah, well, at least you got to suck on your dad's dick.
    – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
    1. Seth: [imitating Becca] Oh Evan, thank you for bringing that lube for my pussy. I never would've been able to handle your four inch dick inside my pussy without that gigantic bottle of lube.
    – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
    1. Evan: I heard she got breast reduction surgery.
    2. Seth: What? That's like slapping God across the face for giving you a beautiful gift.
    3. Evan: She had back problems, man.
    – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
    1. Officer Slater: McLovin? Were you violating that young girl? Were you violating her with your penis?
    – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
    1. Fogell: You still haven't told him that we're rooming together?
    2. Evan: Fogell, shut the fuck up. And take off that vest. You look like Aladdin.
    – Submitted by Kelly E (3 months ago)
    1. Seth: No one's gotten a hand job in cargo shorts since Nam!
    – Submitted by Trevor M (4 months ago)

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