Superbad (2007)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Hilarious. Absolutely nails it.

[nymr83]

it was ok but not great. its not in the same league as "knocked up."

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I dunno about that, and I liked knocked up a lot too.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Finally saw it yesterday and it was just perfect.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Yeah, I completely dug this movie. Great usage of "vag" throughout.

[soupcan]

"She wants the 'P' in the 'V'!"

Saw it Friday night - liked it. A lot.

[Vic Sage]

i guess i'm getting old. I got about 1/2 way thru and had to turn it off. I liked KNOCKED UP alot more.

maybe i was just too tired.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm disappointed that esteemed cpf critic Norrid Radd likes so little about this guy's flix.

I find these movies generally hard to take at first -- they come off like they're all about laughs through vulgarity -- but by the end they've demonstrated real heart and humanity as well. This movie was in some ways like "Fast Times" in the way it revealed how awkward horny and confused high school kids are when it comes to sexuality.

[Vic Sage]

oh, i get what it was trying to do. And i'm sure if i had stuck with it, it would've paid off to some degree.

but unlike FAST TIMES, i just found the characters in SUPERBAD (while truthful in alot of ways) just so repellant, i didn't want to spend another conscious moment with them.

You have shown a higher tolerance for such characters over the years, so this probably wasn't a big deal to you. But i could not tolerate the company of that fat, brillo-haired, mono-maniacal walking dildo for another second

[metirish]

Watched this tonight, liked it a lot and pretty much laughed throughout the whole movie and had several flash back moments.

[metirish]

Watched this again Xmas night and liked it even more on second viewing.

"I'll be the Iron Chef of pounding vag"

[Farmer Ted]

Finally saw it last night On Demand. "Yeah, looks like a division sign." You can't make this shit up, really. Great music, too.

[Frayed Knot]

Vic Sage wrote: i guess i'm getting old. I got about 1/2 way thru and had to turn it off.

Lunchbucket wrote: I find these movies generally hard to take at first -- they come off like they're all about laughs through vulgarity -- but by the end they've demonstrated real heart and humanity as well

I finally got around to this one ... and I find myself agreeing with both of the above.
I was ready to his 'Eject' part way into it, but (after taking a break) stuck to it and it did get better as it went on.

I'm not as ga-ga as most of y'all but it did make a nice rally from the mid-point on - and the hottie-geek matchups weren't as tough to buy as the one in 'Knocked Up'.

[Edgy MD]

The thing about the huge asshole brillo protagonist is that you slowly --- yeah, too slowly perhaps --- see how much his bullshit is a fa�ade covering up teenage self-loathing, and what kind of friend his buddy must be to see through that and continue to tolerate him. There's co-dependence there, but something more.

And it gives a male version of what's going on in Ghost World --- two teenagers who've been constant companions since childhood coming painfully to terms with realizing that they'll have to find adult indentities on their own.

Yeah, his constant degrading sex talk and abuse of his only friends is repellant, but I can't look back at my teenage friends and say that I didn't know that guy.

A director has to be real careful to direct a movie like this --- but defensible it is. They portray the teenage sex obsession/awkwardness hand-in-hand with the reckless booziness, but make more particularly clear than most other movies how the latter is used explicitly to anaestsize kids through the former, and hints at just how tragic that is.

My main problem was the cops. They were funny as heck, but so surreal that they seemed to be out of a different movie.

Edited March 21, 2009 by Guest

[Guest themetfairy]

I saw it on cable recently. I thought it was good, but not great.

And I agree with Edgy that it did a good job of portraying the awkwardness of teenage sex.

Although, like most things, it's better in 30 seconds as done by bunnies.

[Fman99]

themetfairy wrote: I saw it on cable recently. I thought it was good, but not great. And I agree with Edgy that it did a good job of portraying the awkwardness of teenage sex. Although, like most things, it's better in 30 seconds as done by bunnies.

Oh I just lost 15 minutes of my life with those damn bunnies. They rule.

[Centerfield]

Those bunnies are awesome.

I thought the beginning was unbearable. The middle and end was much better, and makes it a worthwhile venture. Seth Rogen is much better when he is not the star of the movie, and I thought the cops/McLovin parts were the best.

Jules = cute.

[Fman99]

Watched this tonight on my Zune while on a 3 hour layover in an airport. It had some funny moments but large parts of it were boring to me.

I gave it a 6.