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Superbad
Sony Pictures


7.3

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MPAA 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)

GENRE(S):	Comedy
WRITTEN BY:	Seth Rogen Evan Goldberg
DIRECTED BY:	Greg Mottola
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: December 4, 2007 Theatrical: August 17, 2007
RUNNING TIME:	114 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

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100

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.

100

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.

The average user rating for this movie is 7.3 (out of 10) based on 210 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Mark K. gave it a1:
I have no idea what anyone is talking about. This movie is LOUSY. No, it's not because it's foul-mouthed or loaded with dick jokes---(I couldn't care less about any of that, I'll laugh at that ) it's just NOT funny! I've never met anyone who acts like any of these characters. It's just another example of the Apatow bullshit machine that wants to have an endless stream of unfunny cock, sperm and menstrual blood jokes --then wants us to buy into it's stupid NON-DEVELOPED "caring" about these two guys and their friendship story . It's TERRIBLE writing disguised as heart ---and it's a phony BORE. You want a good movie about real people, try "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" or "Animal House" or "Clueless." Film critics: You should actually go back and watch some real comedies before praising unfunny junk like this. Have a little knowledge about what you are talking about --or as the characters in this lame movie would say ad nauseam, "Grow a pair."

Alex G. gave it an8:
Thank god this film was of pure excellence because the name could have provided critics with an insult, "this film was super...baaad" but its an amazing film, good work Rogen and Golberg.

Ja-cog-cob Pdude gave it an8:
It was the best movie ever!!! I liked the "superbad" scenes!

Brian M. gave it a10:
Everything about this film was amazing. don't listen to people who rate it lowly. they just think they're great because they didn't like it.

Pete H. gave it a3:
I was suckered by the hype. Loved 40 Year Old Virgin (as did my missus); Loved Knocked Up (as did my missus). Bought this full of anticipation after all the stellar reviews, set aside Sunday night (what a loser), settled down for a gutbusting laughfest and... er... couldn't believe how badly it sucked. In fact, I was so surprised at my negative reaction that I wondered if I'd been in some kind of dour mood without realising it and got a second opinion from my kid brother who loves the same nonsense (your Liebowskis, Anchormen, Taps etc) and was also massively pumped to watch the movie after the great reviews. His view: he was livid that he'd wasted two hours of his life that he'd never get back. Problems? Okay, here are a few: the main character is a c*ck. Not in a good, geeky, anti-hero kinda way. No, he's just a c*ck, in a fat, crass, thick angry whinging please-smack-me-in-the-mouth dish-it-out-but-can't-take-it-in-return kinda way. He's the thick, angry dude at a party that you just walk away from as fast as you can. And he's waaaaaaay too old for the role. His mate is as dull as a puddle so there's no comedy chemistry, just uninspired swearing met by empty puzzled/guilty looks. The whole McLovin thing was so fiercely try-hard and cynical. The cops' characters changed as the script required (one minute goofing, then psychopathic) but didn't amuse because of the drug-fuelled mood swings - it just seemed fake. The joy of the recent Apatow stuff has been that under the grotesquerie, the characters were oddly credible. This one, however, is nonsense. There's none of the Apatow goofing-around-great-fun-just-hanging-with-these-characters feel. There's none of the amiability of the benchmark for this sort of movie, American Pies 1 and 2 (and nothing to touch the brilliant set-piece gags from those movies); there's none of the inspired insanity of the better frathouse bashes like Animal House. It just doesn't deliver. And the bolt-on ending! WHY would that absolute raging hottie with a sensible head on her beautiful shoulders even look at Mr spiteful whiney aggressive oik, other than because the movie demanded that the two guys sorta "get the gal" at the end? Dude - weak. If I was meant to be rooting for him because he'd followed some long character arc... ah, no. 'Cos he didn't. He woke up hungover and feeling guilty because he'd been such a royal pain in the harris that even he'd spotted it. He inspired such antipathy in me, I would have much preferred it if the movie had ended with him falling in agonising slow motion down the long flight of stairs in that shopping mall. Would have been a two star review, but another star for the McLovin "it's in!" line, a solitary great moment that only underlined how duff the rest of this movie was. Everyone I have spoken to who has seen it agrees - rubbish film. Sorry folks, the critics all jumped a big emperor's clothes bandwagon. Save yourselves, it's too late for me.

Jonas H. gave it a9:
This is the best movie I've seen for a long time. I'd say it's even better and more funny than American Pie, even though I'm a great fan of those.

Nigel gave it a10:
best movie ever

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Superbad
Sony Pictures