Funniest teen movie since American Pie!

Rating: 7/10 (20 September 2007)

Seth Rogen & Judd Apatow are fast becoming then new comedy superstars in Hollywood. They've given us THE 40-YEAR OLD VIRGIN AND KNOCKED UP, and now they are back with SUPERBAD. While not hitting the heights of the previous movies still has more laughs in it than a lot of movies out there, and is certainly the funniest teen movie since the American Pie trilogy.
The plot sees Seth and Evan setting about trying to loose their virginity before heading off to separate colleges. Seth plans to get the girls drunk and then find one that will sleep with him. Evan gets caught up with this, although he has one girl in mind, Becca, a girl he has a crush on. Seth agrees to buy the drink for the party, and for this he uses another friend: Fogell. Fogell has got himself a fake ID, calling himself McLovin, and they plan to use this to go buy the alcohol.....
I won't say anymore about the plot, but what follows is simply some of the funniest scenes this year. We get 2 of the most untrustworthy cops ever seen, more willing to break laws than enforce them. Evan and Seth get side-tracked into a different party, which leads to a hysterical sequence involving blood on his pants... Evan finds himself having to sing for some hard men, and Fogell becomes best pals with the cops!
Rogen,who co-wrote the movie, and appears as one of the cops, knows that for a movie like this to work, for the gross-out moments and humour to work, you have to have characters that are both interesting and fun, and this movie is full of them. Even the female characters, who don't get as much screen time as the guys, are fully developed.
But the real secret of this movie, is that it covers something you don't see often in movies, and that is the relationships between teen boys, who are best friends and growing-up and maybe apart for good.
The young cast all do very well, but the 3 main leads, Jonah Hill (Seth), Michael Cera (Evan) and Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Fogell) are all brilliant.
Overall a truly funny movie about teen boys that will have you in stitches.