Superbad tells the story of two best friends Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) in their last weeks of high schools with their virginities still in tact. But when a girl who Seth has a massive crush on invites them to her party they see it as an opportunity to get laid. That is until they are responsible for buying alcohol for the party. They team up with fellow class loser Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) who recently acquired himself a fake ID. Their lives are then blown out of proportion when Fogell gets arrested by the cops (Seth Rogen and Bill Hader) and Seth and Evan?s friendship is pushed to the edge. Is it just me or does that sound like the average lame teen comedy?
First Thoughts
After watching the trailer my impression was that it is going to be another comedy like the incredibly poor ?Scary Movie? series or ?Not another Teen Movie.? Though at the same time it looked like it could turn out to be another film like ?Napoleon Dynamite? but I think one NP movie is enough. Also the humour shown in the teaser looked like idiotic slapstick comedy, which is way to common in American movies these days. So when I finally arrived at the cinema to watch this movie I was in mixed emotions over whether this movie was going to be average or just amazingly poor.
The Movie
The movie started of slowly with not much happening though the comedy was there even though it wasn't gut busting hilarity. When the film properly gets underway the laughs keep coming and coming none stop. Though some of jokes are stupid and targeted at the less intelligent members of the audience there is also a lot witty humour, which can make the smartererererer viewers laugh. The plot never gets boring either as it changes between the main characters and their situations often. The ending is also very good though I was disappointed when there was no character tie up for Fogell.
Acting Performance
Michael Cera did very well as the nervous wreck Evan though out of the three main characters he was the least convincing. Jonah hill who played the foul mouthed Seth who made the majority of the crowd laugh after everyone of his jokes. Though without a doubt Mintz-Plasse stole the show on his screen debut as Fogell the complete loser who thinks he is to cool for school. The combination between him, Rogen and Hader was pure comedy gold and every time they went off screen you just couldn?t wait for them to come back.
Overall
As many of the reviews say this is by far the best comedy of the year up there with such modern comedies as Napoleon Dynamite and Little Miss Sunshine. This film is recommended for any group of teenage friends no matter what social group you fit into, it is bound to make you wet yourself with laughter. Though I would advice adults to stay away as this really is a teen comedy and most of the matters addressed in it are for the youth.
In Conclusion a very entertaining movie!
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Great film! Good review too, although maybe it'd benefit from cleaning up a few of the spelling mistakes you've made - type your review into Word forst, then copy and paste it into Ciao, and you'll get the benefits of a spell-checker on your review.
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Advantages: Best comedy that i have ever seen! Definatly my favourite by far! Disadvantages: There aren't any! I loved every single part of this purchase, even happy handing over money for it
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