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Superbad

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Superbad reviews
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7.4 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 36 critic reviews
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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)

What The Critics Said

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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.

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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.

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90

Newsweek David Ansen

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

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90

The New Yorker David Denby

An uproarious and touching picture.

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90

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.

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90

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.

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88

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.

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88

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.

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83

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

A funny, boozy, ramshackle party.

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83

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.

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80

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.

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80

Film Threat Michael Ferraro

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

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78

Austin Chronicle Shawn Badgley

Mostly Superbad is as soulful and funky as its soundtrack.

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75

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.

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75

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.

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75

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.

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75

TV Guide Ken Fox

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

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75

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.

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75

Premiere Eric Alt

Superbad is just a great time, plain and simple.

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75

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.

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75

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.

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75

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

Intermittently hilarious if also interminable.

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75

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

Filled with nasty, nasty stuff.

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75

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

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

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75

USA Today Claudia Puig

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

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70

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.

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70

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."

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70

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.

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70

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.

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70

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

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

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70

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."

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63

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.

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60

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.

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50

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."

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50

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.

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50

Time Richard Corliss

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

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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.

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