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100For 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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100Might be the most provocative teen sex comedy ever made; it is certainly one of the most convulsively funny.
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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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90As a "Revenge of the Nerds" redux, Superbad isn't perfect. But it's super close.
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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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90An uproarious and touching picture.
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88It 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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88The 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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83You 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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83A funny, boozy, ramshackle party.
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80Easily one of the funniest comedies of the year and one you wouldn't mind seeing again and again.
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80What 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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Mostly Superbad is as soulful and funky as its soundtrack.
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75In 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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75Superbad 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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75There 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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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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75Intermittently hilarious if also interminable.
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75It's mostly very crude, often very funny and a little bit smarter than you might otherwise think.
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75Side-splitting laughter, along with some powerful cringing, are likely to be audiences' dominant reactions.
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75What 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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75Superbad is just a great time, plain and simple.
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75Superbad 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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75Filled with nasty, nasty stuff.
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75The movie is best when everything is up in the air.
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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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70Its 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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70Horny is as horny does in the sweetly absurd high school comedy Superbad.
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70The 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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70Christopher 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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70The 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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63Not super, but not bad, the teen comedy, Superbad, is another comic dance across the hormonal minefield of late high school.
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60As 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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50As films about the young and the horny go, I preferred the smarter approach director Jeffrey Blitz takes in "Rocket Science."
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50Superbad 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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50To find that valuable truth, you have to dig through an avalanche of d--- jokes and strenuous slapstick.
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NapW.9The funniest film I've seen in years. I can't remember the last time I laughed so much.