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- Nothing Goes RightObsessive QuestFriendshipLooking for SexTeenage LifeYouthFriendsDisorder more...
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- Comedy
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- Contemporary21st Century
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- USA
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- BlockbusterCritically Acclaimed
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- Grossout Humor
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- Talky
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Superbad, 2007
English
USA
Profile of Superbad
Superbad can be described as humorous, sexual, and sentimental. The plot revolves around looking for sex, an obsessive quest, and a situation where nothing goes right. Its comic aspect comes from grossout humor. Superbad's main genre is comedy. In terms of style, it is talky. In approach, it is not serious and realistic. Superbad is located in the USA. It takes place in contemporary times. The movie has received attention for being a blockbuster and critically acclaimed. Superbad is well suited for a date night, teens, and a boys' night. Note that it involves brief nudity, drugs/alcohol, and sexual content.
Summary of Superbad
Produced by Judd Apatow and co-written by Seth Rogen--both of 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN and KNOCKED UP fame--SUPERBAD is the story of two horny teenage geeks looking to lose their virginity before college. Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) are hoping to end high school on a high note, and when one of their crushes (Emma Hill) invites them to a graduation party, the boys are ecstatic. That is, until they become responsible for supplying the party with alcohol. They hurriedly concoct a scheme to use their friend Fogell's (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) horrendously fake ID, but trouble soon arises when Fogell becomes the victim of a liquor store robbery. The cops (Rogen and Bill Hader) show up, and the evening quickly disintegrates into a hilarious mess of misunderstandings, crackhead sing-alongs, and beer mixed with laundry detergent.
Hill is a riot as the wild-haired and foul-mouthed Seth, and Mintz-Plasse is great fun as the uber-geek Fogell. But Michael Cera (formerly of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT) steals the show as the sensitive and levelheaded Evan. His oddball line delivery and excellent comic timing make for some of the most bizarre but best moments of the film. The sexual humor can be pretty graphic at times, which is no doubt what earned the movie its R rating. Yet, despite gross-out jokes involving menstrual blood and penis drawings, SUPERBAD somehow manages to fly far above frat-boy, AMERICAN PIE-style humor. This is partly due to the comedic skill of the actors, but also because the characters--silly and absurd though they can be--are so well-written. Watching these bungling outcasts is a vivid reminder of the horrific lows and supreme highs of high school life, and their antics rather poignantly capture how age 18 can indeed be super bad, but also super good.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 17 August 2007 |
| Runtime: | 114 min |
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Critics Reviews
The Onion (A.V. Club)
A funny, boozy, ramshackle party.
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- by: Nathan Rabin
Rolling Stone
It helps that the fun doesn't stop. It helps even more that the pitch-perfect script doesn’t step out of character for a joke.
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- by: Peter Travers
Users Reviews
Superbad lives up to it's name. A sophmoronic comedy (middle school division) it slings fat jokes, weenie jokes etc non-stop in lieu of characters (Hill's is round only in morphology) and story. Maybe it gets wonderful after a while, as, for...
- 26.June.2010
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- by: Stephen Harris
- Stephen Harris rated this movie
0/10
When this came out one newspaper critic, who in retrospect maybe was a little high when he wrote it, raved about it being as big a landmark in comedy for our age as "The Graduate" was for its time. Oh, really? Wow. But I did not rush to...
- 29.March.2010
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- by: Democritus
- Democritus rated this movie6/10Okay
