Superbad

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

For pure laughs, for the experience of just sitting in a chair and breaking up every minute or so, Superbad is 2007's most successful comedy.

New York Magazine David Edelstein

Might be the most provocative teen sex comedy ever made; it is certainly one of the most convulsively funny.

Newsweek David Ansen

As a "Revenge of the Nerds" redux, Superbad isn't perfect. But it's super close.

The New Yorker David Denby

An uproarious and touching picture.

Village Voice Scott Foundas

Superbad is duly ribald and often achingly funny, brewed from the now-familiar Apatow house blend of go-for-broke slapstick and instantly quotable, potty-mouthed dialogue.

Wall Street Journal Joanne Kaufman

What's most memorable, most striking about Superbad is the canny evocation of male friendship in all its richness and complexity.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

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.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The movie is astonishingly foul-mouthed, but in a fluent, confident way where the point isn't the dirty words, but the flow and rhythm, and the deep, sad yearning they represent.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

A funny, boozy, ramshackle party.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

You don't have to be a teenager to appreciate the raunchy humor and the uninhibited overkill of Seth's porn-obsessed chatter, though it probably helps to be a guy.

Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

What with everyone so focused on the raunchiness, it comes as a complete surprise to find that Superbad is in fact a love story.

Film Threat Michael Ferraro

Easily one of the funniest comedies of the year and one you wouldn’t mind seeing again and again.

Austin Chronicle Shawn Badgley

Mostly Superbad is as soulful and funky as its soundtrack.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Superbad is cute if you like guys who aren't even remotely bad, in a coming-of-age tale so old-fashioned the girls might just as well be wearing bloomers.

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

In this teen-boy universe, sex is everywhere and nowhere, it's oozing out of every pop culture pore and every other insane boast, yet the idea of figuring out how to talk to girls without turning into a yutz remains elusive.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

What if Quentin Tarantino collaborated with John Hughes on a teen comedy? Superbad is a decent approximation of what the result might be.

TV Guide Ken Fox

It's mostly very crude, often very funny and a little bit smarter than you might otherwise think.

New York Post Linda Stasi

Super-vulgar, ridiculously sophomoric, horribly nasty and so hilarious you’ll probably squirt Diet Coke out of your nose within the first 20 minutes.

Premiere Eric Alt

Superbad is just a great time, plain and simple.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

Superbad never forgets the lesson one learns when looking back on one's awkward youth: Cool isn't just where society dictates; it is also where you find it.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

There is a hint of sentimentality among the pals at the end, but not enough to offset the film's harmless combination of camaraderie and wished-for - oh, how they wish for it - debauchery.

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

Intermittently hilarious if also interminable.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

Filled with nasty, nasty stuff.

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

The movie is best when everything is up in the air.

USA Today Claudia Puig

Side-splitting laughter, along with some powerful cringing, are likely to be audiences' dominant reactions.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

Its pleasures and charms lie in its very crudeness, in the way the characters' thoughts begin in their d---s and spill out of their mouths, completely bypassing their brains.

The Hollywood Reporter Stephen Farber

Some of the patter is funny, but the movie lacks the clever plot developments and the character nuances of a classic like "American Graffiti." And it's missing the belly laughs of earlier raunchfests "American Pie" and "There's Something About Mary."

Variety Todd McCarthy

The bawdy jokes score big points, but it's the rueful acknowledgement of adolescent embarrassment and humiliation that most distinguishes Superbad, another ultra-raunchy and commercial sex comedy from the Judd Apatow laugh factory.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

The movie loses credibility with the arrival of Rogen and Bill Hader as two uniformed patrolmen who are drunker and crazier than any high schooler could ever get, but the variety of complications thrown at the three pubescent heroes raises this a cut above most raunchy comedies.

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

Horny is as horny does in the sweetly absurd high school comedy Superbad.

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

Christopher Mintz-Plasse steals the movie in his screen debut as a nerd di tutti nerds, a kid whose fake I.D. reads "McLovin."

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

Not super, but not bad, the teen comedy, Superbad, is another comic dance across the hormonal minefield of late high school.

Slate Dana Stevens

As lurching, awkward, and dirty-minded as the three horny man-boys at its center--but not, in the end, quite as funny or endearing.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

As films about the young and the horny go, I preferred the smarter approach director Jeffrey Blitz takes in "Rocket Science."

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

Superbad simply isn't. It isn't super, as it intersperses crudely funny gags with an equal number of dry spots. It isn't ever truly bad, because even the lame segments pass quickly.

Time Richard Corliss

To find that valuable truth, you have to dig through an avalanche of d--- jokes and strenuous slapstick.