Movies

Superbad Review

Superbad is a movie about awkward teens coping with high school and their lack of popularity (like so many others). The big difference here is that this film is so over the top insane and crude that it’s much worse than most high school movies. By way of comparison, it makes American Pie look like a family film.

 

The plot is simple, a couple of best friends in high school (with a third in tow), all very low on the popularity totem pole, plan on using a fake ID to buy booze for a party being held by one of the most popular girls in school. They think that if they can come through with the alcohol, the two girls the most desire will make them men just before their final year ends. Along the way, they run into muggers, cops, psychotic college partiers and a host of other oddball characters.

 

Seth Rogen’s writing (and Judd Apatow’s contribution) here is evident, simply because this movie is so crude and rude and fully deserves it’s 18A/R rating. Nonetheless, it is very funny. Seth Rogen also does an excellent job as a rookie policeman who inadvertently helps the guys buy the alcohol.