= 4 stars

Starring Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Directed by Greg Mottola

Synopsis

Two sex-obsessed, loser high-school seniors try to score booze for a party. Hilarity ensues.

The Good

• Definitely some classic, hilarious scenes. My favorites involved the scrawny, nerdy kid Fogell aka “McLovin” (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) petrified of buying liquor, and his misadventures with two cops. Coming in a close second are Evan’s (Michael Cera) party singing and the Seth’s (Jonah Hill) boorish behavior in general.
• Captures the awkward teenage condition: fantasizing about adult behavior like sex, buying liquor, and hanging out in bars. There’s that universal teen feeling that buying liquor while underage is some quest tantamount to the Holy Grail.
• Also funny is how how the kids are totally incompetent with women, so they over compensate with crass sexual expression. The ultimate moral is how a fulfilling relationship is “all that other stuff” - not just the horizontal mambo.

The Bad

• The amped up sex humor was rather off-putting at first. As with Knocked Up, this disc was the “Unrated” version so I may have inadvertently guzzled the 40 ouncer.

Conclusion

What I found funny was how all the “adult” stuff these kids lust after are in actuality, rather mundane activities to those well above legal age. Therefore, the slow motion segment where the three boys converge on the liquor store as if it’s a heist out of Ocean’s Eleven had me cracking up. What it means to be a grown up is so completely missed when you’re under twenty, and that humorous observation is surprisingly, enough to base an entire funny movie on.

IMBD: Superbad
Wikipedia: Superbad
Rotten Tomatoes: Superbad 87%

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