Porkys and American Pie have nothing on Superbad

Rating: Null/10 (13 September 2007)

The teen sex comedy is back and in the fine tradition of countless, tasteless classics, Superbad picks up the fallen torch and uses the light from it to look for a way to get laid. The movie is not original or deep, but it is pretty damn funny. The young performers are great and actually look the parts they play and show some real acting ability. Hill is a regular part of the Seth Rogan mob that is ruling Hollywood comedies these days, while Sera is in his first big screen starring roles after years of TV work on Arrested Development. The real shock here is the teenager, Christopher Mintz-Plasse who is on-screen for the first time and is great.
The story here is simplicity, itself. It's two weeks to high school graduation and Seth (Jonah Hill) desperately wants to share some carnal moments with a girl, preferably Jules (Emma Stone). His best friend, Adam (Sera) has romantic aspirations for Becca (Martha MacIsaac) and the key to these dreams seems to be Jules' party for which they have offered to come up with the booze  a tricky offer when you are three years underage. The key to their plan is the hopeless, Fogell, (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), who has just bought a new fake ID, and gave himself an attention-grabbing new name to go along with it. The simple plan of having Fogell buy the booze and arriving at the party as heroes and stepping into the waiting arms of their intoxicated fantasy girls for an evening of new pleasures doesn't go as smoothly as they planned (obviously) and soon all three are off on a series of misadventures that include two police officers (Hader & Rogan), an armed robbery and a couple vehicle-pedestrian accidents.
This movie is not for everyone. This is an adolescent comedy from the same minds that came up with the 40 Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up. It's similar in mindset to Porky's and the American Pie series. If you enjoyed these movies, then Superbad will be a couple hours of groaning, giggling and loudly laughing at the high school antics that we were never dumb enough, desperate enough, or unlucky enough to engage in when we were in high school. Or so we claim, anyway.
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