Superbad Review

Wow I've not posted in a month! Normally I don't care because I don't think anyone reads, but thats untrue. Bjorn tells me he reads every day, therefore I must keep the blog going! On with the review:

After finding out Superbad was a Judd Apatow production I was instantly hooked. Apatow is on a movie making rampage right now and you have to soak it up before it runs dry, since all his movies are pretty much exactly the same I fear it will run dry someday soon. On the other hand, they are all great so keep a good thing going. Superbad is no exception, think of it as a younger version of Knocked Up.

The movie centers around Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) and their last few weeks in high school. They are best friends and outcasts (of course) that happen to get invited to a party being thrown by a hot girl, Jules (Emma Stone). Jules is under the impression Seth has a fake ID and asks him to get liquor for the party. The movie then becomes about Seth, Evan and their friend Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) adventures in their attempts to obtain this liquor. They have a whole entire party relying on them to get booze, so you can imagine the pressure!

Hill, Cera and Mintz-Plasse are great in this movie. The conversations between Evan and Seth are side splitting funny, as Seth's intense personality is perfectly complemented by Evan's easy going nature. Also featured in this movie are two cops, Officers Slater (Bill Hader) and Michales (Seth Rogan, who also wrote the movie). Slater and Michales aren't your normal cops, they drink on the job, abuse their police power and drive recklessly. Their scenes with Fogell are hilarious but it gets a little over the top towards the end.

The movie contains some realistic characters (besides the cops) and you actually think this could be a real high school and real high school students. Then we get to Fogell, who is destined to go down as the next "Pedro" (from Napoleon Dynamite fame) in pop culture. He has more personality and a greater impact on this movie then Pedro did on ND, and he is just great. Right off the bat you can tell Fogell is the crazy character of the movie and it only gets better as he gets himself a fake ID, in which he inexplicitly chooses "McLovin" for his name. The McLovin references are so awesome, well they are reason enough to go see the movie. Be prepared for some crude language thrown around by Seth, and be prepared for a good time. Just in case you are on the fence about seeing it, well I provide you with this youtube clip to change your mind (the R rated trailer you won't see in theaters):



Grade: B+