Vulgar, mean spirited, demeaning to women, no redeeming value

Rating: 1/10 (12 October 2007)

I see a lot of movies, granted not gross-out teen movies, but the reviews for Superbad were good and it has connections to Knocked Up, which had much to enjoy. I never walk out of a movie, but I walked out of this one because of the language, subjects, characters, and situations. I agree these writers have some talent, but they don't have anything else: maturity, sensitivity, the ability to understand more than one point of view, nor any subtlety or sophistication, particularly with the English language. The humor is one note, mean, crude, vulgar, and demeaning to women. It shows that they began writing this movie when they were 13, it is at that level. I made it past the "when I get home I'll take a shower to clean this off me" point but when I found myself seriously thinking "I'll join a convent so I never have to talk to a man again", I left. I hope their mothers are as embarrassed as I was to have to see this drivel, and I hope other parents are smart enough to keep their teens from this type of entertainment. The industry does itself no credit when it produces movies like this, to say nothing of losing large segments of potential audience.