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Superbad

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 36 critic reviews
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Based on 227 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
Seth Rogen
Evan Goldberg
Directed by: Greg Mottola
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 17, 2007
DVD: December 4, 2007
Running Time: 114 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for pervasive crude and sexual content, strong language, drinking, some drug use and a fantasy/comic violent image - all involving teens
Starring Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bill Hader, Seth Rogen, Emma Stone, Martha MacIsaac, and Aviva
Superbad is a coming-of-age cautionary tale about two socially inept teenage boys about to graduate high school. Theirs is a ridiculously dependent friendship--but now they've gotten into different colleges and are forced to contemplate life apart. Evan is sweet, smart, and generally terrified. Seth is foul-mouthed, volatile, and all-consumed with the topic of human sexuality. This is the story of their misguided attempts to reverse a lifelong losing streak with the ladies in one panic-driven night...that awful, humiliating night you cherish for the rest of your life. (Sony Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
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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.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
Might be the most provocative teen sex comedy ever made; it is certainly one of the most convulsively funny.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
As a "Revenge of the Nerds" redux, Superbad isn't perfect. But it's super close.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Michael Ferraro
Easily one of the funniest comedies of the year and one you wouldn’t mind seeing again and again.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Shawn Badgley
Mostly Superbad is as soulful and funky as its soundtrack.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
It's mostly very crude, often very funny and a little bit smarter than you might otherwise think.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Intermittently hilarious if also interminable.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Side-splitting laughter, along with some powerful cringing, are likely to be audiences' dominant reactions.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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."
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
Horny is as horny does in the sweetly absurd high school comedy Superbad.
Read Full Review >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."
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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."
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
To find that valuable truth, you have to dig through an avalanche of d--- jokes and strenuous slapstick.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.4 (out of 10) based on 227 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Bill S gave it a10:
The bottom line is this movie made me laugh out loud and a lot. I really enjoyed it.
UN B gave it a10:
The best movie ever! The movie is full of laughs, teen comedy, sex and a true coming-of-age story just like American Pie.
Todd B gave it a10:
One of the funniest movies I have ever seen. Bought the movie, and every time its on Cable I cant turn it off
Norman R gave it an8:
This movie is very funny at most. Although at most times scenes are going a bit too far, it's still an enjoyable movie. It's a movie worth watching
Ryan P gave it a7:
Definitely a lot of laugh out loud moments. Very amusing, very funny, money well spent.
Harry gave it a0:
No no no, everyday last year at school all i heard was how hilarious this movie was, how great it was so i finally rented it * wish i could get my 5 bucks back *. Pointless jokes that wernt even strong enough to make me laugh and i laugh at about anything. People stop applauding this movie! The only remotely entertaining part was the cops, and that didn't last long.
Clark W gave it a10:
This is the funniest movie I have ever seen. Michal Cera is at his awkward best, Johnah Hill is hilarious, and Seth Rogen will have you laughing untilt the end. What makes this movie so great is that for it is exactly how high school kids act and talk. It is the most quoatable movie ever, and is pure gold.
