Superbad. Looks awesome!

This film look hilarious!

http://www.areyousuperbad.com/

I suggest you all watch the trailers. I am really glad to see a film coming from the US that doesn't cast 20+ year olds to play 16 and 17 year olds etc.

"I am McLovin"

Cant wait for this one

R rated trailer >

All audiences trailer >

Watch both, Unregistered!

it doesnt really matter how old u are, its how you look

I gotta see it. Thanks for that DVDGUY!!!!

That looks freakin' hilarious! I'll have to try to sneak in and see it when it comes out.

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I have been wanting to see this since i saw the all ages trailer and I AM SO HAPPY that its rated R because it would have turned out horribly otherwise and because i want it to explore more than the obvious crap that the other movies in the genre does and be hilarious
i have very high expectations for this movie especially since seth rogen is writing it and in it

I've heard good things, but it will have to wait till DVD.

Not ringin' my bell. Doesn't look like my cup o tea...

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And how old you act. Indeed.

The two stars are both older than they look.



Michael Cera, who played George Michael Bluth on "Arrested Development", was born in 1988. He just turned nineteen last month. But still, these are supposed to be two seventeen-year-olds just graduating from High School, so he's just about perfect. However, his co-star, Jonah Hill, who you may have seen in Accepted or Evan Almighty, was born in 1983. That's right, he'll turn twenty-four this December. But he still makes a very credible seventeen-year-old on screen.

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Superbad (2007, Greg Mottola)



I recently watched Superbad. It was alright. I don't much care for the subject matter, but I must admit it was a fresh breath of air to watch a film about high schoolers with actors that do look the age. The bit with the cops was the best thing the film had going for it. I enjoyed how they took stereotypes of police and went with it showing everything a cop should not be. However they took it way too far by the end of the flick. When they burn their own squad car, it was a bit too much.

I didn't find the overall story that engrossing either. Three teenagers attempting to get booze for a party isn't going to be anything remarkable... Nor is the idea that they're doing so in order to get laid by the girls they've got "the hots" for. I understand it's about style and dialogue. But there's only so much you can do with this type of film.

And of course Superbad shows that all teenagers care about is sex and beer. This may or may not be true. For some it certainly is. Certainly teenagers are the world's must sucesptable sponges to garbage and filth deemed "cool" by 40-year olds wearing suits and ties, trying to make easy money off of the consumer power of puberty. It must be fun to market products to dollar-shedding zombies covered in pimples and Hollister.

So it's a matter of both art immitating life and life immitating art. A teenager will see stuff like Superbad and want to fill in their part of how they're categorized. Meanwhile filmmakers observe teenagers and group them into this material. Must be a vicious cycle. I do recognize a lot of the kids I see on a daily basis in this film. Of course I realize the kids I see at work are modeling themselves off the way they're told to be. Shame. Shame. I have seen enough of these walking stereotypes of pop culture enter the classroom to make a person ill.

It would be nice to have a film that deals with high school from a different point of view or angle. So far there really isn't much. Aside from a couple John Hughes films, Rushmore, Rebel Without a Cause, and Gus Van Sant's disturbing Elephant, I can't think of a lot. While Superbad is mildly entertaining at times, especially the moments with the police, it's ultimately very hollow and routine of the genre. Another offshoot of the American Pie film that tries to outgross the previous entry in more ways than one.

Grade: C+

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i missed to watch this on the big screen, i'm waiting for it's dvd.

Umm . . . . I think I resent that, am I allowed to resent that? Being a teenager i mean?

Ok here i go, you say that Superbad shows the main characters to be shallow with no higher purpose than getting laid and no redeeming qualities.In the case of McLovin and Jonah Hill's character Seth , I agree with you to a certain extent.But with Michael cera's character I have to wholeheartedly disagree.Not only does he feel uncomfortable with the idea of getting a girl drunk so he can have sex with her,trying to get out of the plan several times, he also talks about respecting women several times.

So we've got a ratio of 2 immature misguided teens to 1 sensible and sensitive youngster.That seems fairly realistic to me.




(and Christopher Mintz-Plasse rocks my socks)

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I love this movie.

Also , if you can't see that Seth is highly unsure of himself then I guess your just missing a huge layer of the film. That scene is amazing when he gets to the party with all the alcohol.

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This movie is amazing!