Self-indulgent and sophomoric...

Rating: 5/10 (29 December 2013)

...Seth "Superbad" Rogen and Evan "ditto" Goldberg's relentlessly self- referential apocalyptic comedy has moments of genuine humor that are often neutered with juvenile excess. The opportunities for biting satire are subsumed by rampant dick jokes and similar puerile comedic fluff. The relationships of the characters never ring true no matter how wedded to reality they may supposedly be, the skewering of Michael Cera, figuratively and literally, being a prime example of such notes of falsehood.
It's a shame, really, because the potential was there. I don't quite feel that I wasted my time with this one, but I know that it won't be too long before I've forgotten it completely. I should have just watched "Dogma" again, and if you haven't seen either one, that's the better choice.