Superbad is one of the best high school flicks I've seen in recent years. The movie centers around these two high school kids, Seth and Evan, played by Jonah Hill and Michael Cera. It's mostly a coming-of-age story about two boys dealing with the end of their comfortable, if somewhat unspectacular high school careers, but it has none of the cliches, stereotypes and unrealistic dialogues of typical high school flicks. Superbad is as real as they go.
Everything happens in one day in this movie, or two if you count the requisite "morning after" scene. Seth and Evan are determined snag the girls of their neverending sexual fantasies, with Seth being the more explicitly eager between the two. Their strategy? Secure the booze for the party of the year, aided in part by their fellow geekazoid Fogle, played brilliantly by Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and his fake ID card. Fogle's ID proclaims he's a 25-year old organ donor from Hawaii who goes by the cool, mysterious name of McLovin. Just that, McLovin.
The movie is peppered with words like cock pussy cock shit cunt fuck jerkoff. It's a freakin riot. The scenes where Seth was relating his childhood obsession of drawing dicks are especially classic. The poor boy would draw dicks at home, dicks with moustaches, dicks with cowboy costumes, superhero dicks, dicks dicks dicks. Picture this fat, curly haired boy drawing dicks. Ingenious. Then he grows up to be this fat, sexually frustrated, curly-haired boy who gets spat on by the other boys at school, as I imagine what really happens to other fat, sexually frustrated, curly-haired boys in high schools across America.
Kudos also to the two loveable cops played by SNL star Bill Hader and Seth Rogen himself, one of the scriptwriters of the story. These cops, like the other charaters, have pitch-perfect dialogue, and nowhere in the movie do any of the characters strain for laughs. All of them just make up this motley crew of klutzes and socially-inept fellows who just happen to come together for one unforgettable night. The movie has some gay subtexts, as buddy buddy flicks are wont to have (think Lord of the Rings). Allusions to gayness can either make me cringe or make me laugh. In this case, it makes me want to root for both of these losers. Directed by Judd Apatow, of Knocked Up fame, this movie is really raunchy and incredibly crass. It's also hilarious and sweet and most of all, it has heart, and that's really what makes Superbad supergood.
Everything happens in one day in this movie, or two if you count the requisite "morning after" scene. Seth and Evan are determined snag the girls of their neverending sexual fantasies, with Seth being the more explicitly eager between the two. Their strategy? Secure the booze for the party of the year, aided in part by their fellow geekazoid Fogle, played brilliantly by Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and his fake ID card. Fogle's ID proclaims he's a 25-year old organ donor from Hawaii who goes by the cool, mysterious name of McLovin. Just that, McLovin.
The movie is peppered with words like cock pussy cock shit cunt fuck jerkoff. It's a freakin riot. The scenes where Seth was relating his childhood obsession of drawing dicks are especially classic. The poor boy would draw dicks at home, dicks with moustaches, dicks with cowboy costumes, superhero dicks, dicks dicks dicks. Picture this fat, curly haired boy drawing dicks. Ingenious. Then he grows up to be this fat, sexually frustrated, curly-haired boy who gets spat on by the other boys at school, as I imagine what really happens to other fat, sexually frustrated, curly-haired boys in high schools across America.
Kudos also to the two loveable cops played by SNL star Bill Hader and Seth Rogen himself, one of the scriptwriters of the story. These cops, like the other charaters, have pitch-perfect dialogue, and nowhere in the movie do any of the characters strain for laughs. All of them just make up this motley crew of klutzes and socially-inept fellows who just happen to come together for one unforgettable night. The movie has some gay subtexts, as buddy buddy flicks are wont to have (think Lord of the Rings). Allusions to gayness can either make me cringe or make me laugh. In this case, it makes me want to root for both of these losers. Directed by Judd Apatow, of Knocked Up fame, this movie is really raunchy and incredibly crass. It's also hilarious and sweet and most of all, it has heart, and that's really what makes Superbad supergood.
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