Superbad Is Aptly Titled

Rating: 1/10 (13 March 2008)

It is indeed "superbad", possibly one of the worst movies I've seen...and I've seen plenty. The two people who brainstormed this whole script at 13 have hopefully matured since then. The plot was nothing new...there are lots of movies out there about horny teens who desperately want to score. Very few scenes were, in my humble opinion, laugh-out-loud funny.
I'm in my early 20's and I love crude humor but this movie seemed like it was trying too hard. After a while, the "f-bomb" and constant references to sex started to be annoying. Some lewdness is cool but this was completely overdone. Movies don't have to be full of crap to be funny. And speaking from a woman's perspective, it is impossible to bleed (menstrual blood) on guys from simply dancing with them. The movie was trash. I love comedy and I can appreciate old stuff like Porky's, which was pretty crude in its own way. This movie was a complete miss.
I liked Evan (Michael Cera) in the movie "Juno". He is pretty talented, for what it's worth. He constantly has that deer in headlights look about him. Out of all the people in this film, I felt like both he and Fogell/McLovin (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) were the true actors. They did well in their respective roles considering how bad it all was. The character of Seth (Jonah Hill) was unlikeable for the most part. I found him selfish, obnoxious, disrespectful and a terrible friend to Evan. He had a foul mouth, anger problems, and a screwed-up attitude towards girls. However, his human side did show at times so you realize he isn't a complete jerk...just painfully insecure because he wants this girl Jules to like him and because Evan is his only real friend. Had some things been different, my review probably wouldn't be as harsh.