This movie stands apart from Superbad

Rating: 9/10 (7 August 2008)

Everyone went into the theater (myself included) expecting to see another Superbad, just with a lot of weed humor. If it was another Superbad, it'd be just that, and all I'd have to say is if you liked Superbad go see this blah blah blah.
But, while there are similarities of course (just cause it's not Superbad doesn't mean the same guys didn't write it,) this movie is in a league of its own. The action scenes are really brutal, but the things that are happening to the characters in the midst of them are hysterical.
***SPOILERS IN CASE YOU DIDN'T SEE THE WARNING!!!!***
Seth Rogan gets part of his ear blown off, James Franco gets his foot caught in a broken windshield, and stabbed with a fork, and runs into a tree, Danny R. McBride gets shot like four times, it's insane! And yet you're cracking up the whole time. When James Franco got stabbed with a fork, I didn't cringe as much as crack up at how abruptly it happened, or how funny the things he and Seth started screaming when it happened. "He's a good pot dealer, he's my pot dealer!" "I'm the good guy!" while he's got a fork dangling in his right shoulder.
But, amidst the well put together action scenes, the plot is pretty intense. Two stoner's get caught up in a drug war, and just keep digging themselves deeper and deeper, until you're thinking how in the hell are they going to get out of it. The chain of events that the protagonists have to endure throughout this movie makes it that much better, and James Franco and Seth Rogan are HYSTERICAL (Franco was incomprehensibly funny, he truly has dimension as an actor.) Go see this movie, it is well worth it.