Who cares if it's vulgar? This movie was awesome!

Rating: 8/10 (19 August 2008)

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg bring us one of the funniest teen comedies in years. Yet another Judd Apatow produced film with the usual cast and crew providing us with one of the funniest movies of 2007. Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) are best friends on the verge of graduating high school and they are given the opportunity to gain some popularity AND score with the girls they've adored for years...all they need to do is supply the booze for Jules's (Emma Stone) graduation party. The movie plays out over the course of one night as they try to score the alcohol by any means possible while everything that could go wrong, does.
This movie is hilarious! I've been a fan of Apatow and crew since their first feature and now we have a film co-written by one of the funniest actors in modern Hollywood (in my opinion), Seth Rogen. For the sensitive types out there, do yourself a favor and find entertainment elsewhere because this movie is definitely vulgar (though not to my desensitized mind). Curse words and sexual comments pretty much fill the nearly two hour running time (if you have the extended edition, which I recommend). Despite the excessive vulgarity, you can tell the movie doesn't rely on it for its comedy. There are a LOT of genuinely funny moments in this film and that's mostly due to the performances.
This film gathers a lot of great comedic talent in one place. I haven't seen much of Jonah Hill before but I thought he was great in the role of Seth, and Michael Cera subdued comedy was a perfect counter to Jonah's loud, angry rants. Christopher Mintz-Plasse makes his film debut as Fogell (aka McLovin) and his scenes are some of the best in the movie. As soon as he's joined by Seth Rogen and Bill Hader as the cops who pick him up, the McLovin subplot almost becomes it's own movie and you wish there was more. I would seriously love to see this group come together for another film (though not necessarily a sequel to this movie). Great comedic performances, a perfect cast, and a raunchy teenage sex story (with some heart, though some wouldn't believe it) come together to once again prove that Apatow and crew are on top of the Hollywood comedy scene.