Seth, Evan, & McLovin Come of Age

Rating: 7/10 (7 September 2007)

This is an R rated movie but it is funny enough that some teenagers have gone to it at least 5 times. While I have only seen it once, I think it is better than some films of this type but am not sure if it rises quite to the high 8 plus rating it has right now.
The film starts a little slow with Seth (Jonah Hill) picking up Evan (Michael Cera) at his house & checking out his mom (played by a shapely Stacey Edwards). The actor who plays Seth is actually about 25 years old, but the only time it shows to me is in a scene where he is huffing & puffing on the high school track trying to run. The rest of the time, he is believable as a high school senior. His swearing in the early sequences is a little over the top but does set the tone for later events.
McLovin(Christopher Mintz-Plasse) is actually 19 years old in real life & Evan is just slightly older. As for the girls, Becca (24 yr old Martha Mac Isaac) is older than the other actresses but really looks younger & hot. The youngest actress(Jules / Emma Stone) gets the black eye from Seth but she looks older than the others.
Getting away from these facts, the cast fits the story & acts very well together. The 2 cops (Bill Hader & Seth Rogen) are only slightly older than the rest of the cast but they play their roles well too. Their roles make the plot possible.
Seth & Evan get invited by their to be girlfriends to a party at the to be girlfriend of Seth. They even get Seth $100 dollars to buy booze. They find out McLovin is getting a fake ID so they give him the $100 to go & buy the booze at the Liquor store.
The store gets robbed, McLovin gets punched by the robber, the cops come to investigate, & this sets off an incredible chain of events which eventually the guys get the booze to Seth's girlfriends party. The events get quite funny. In fact, once the film gets past it's slow opening it has a good pace reminding me of Tom Hanks "Bachelor Party" from the 1980's in pacing.
The difference is this is a coming of age story of our males & 2 females. McLovin manages to get his fantasy alone too, but his story kind of gets dropped before the ending. I could see a sequel to this here as Evan & McLovin are supposed to be roomers when they go to college after this movie takes place.
Overall, I found the movie a bit of a soft-core teenager comedy with a lot of funny moments. Seth takes quite a bruising in this movie as a lot of things seem to collide with him throughout the film. It is a fantasy story as the girls the guys are dreaming about are also interested in the guys. Wow, when I was a teen I wish it had been that way for me.
There is a spot in the film where the continuity of where Evan is jumps out of place as he suddenly appears at a party with no explanation where he had gone in the previous sequence or how he arrived back at the party he was running away from in the previous sequence. That sequencing is the reason I only rate it a 7.