What is superbad?

I don’t even know where to start with this movie review.

Remember the first time that you saw Fast Times at Ridgemount High?  Or Sixteen Candles?  Well, in twenty years people are going to be talking about the first time they saw Superbad.  It’s a classic and it’s the most original teen comedy I have ever seen. 

I guess there are two things about the movie that I want to touch on and they are both a little bit spoiler related.  The first is the Deus Ex Machina, the one event that caused the whole movie to happen.  In the film Fogell (McLovin) is buying booze for a party while Evan and Seth waited outside.  Fogell has the booze picked out and the cashier was going to sell it to him when all of a sudden WHAM! Fogell get’s knocked cold by a guy who proceeded to rob the cash register.  Soon the cops show up, Evan and Seth get freaked out and then the rest of the movie happens.  I think this moment is great because if Fogell did not get punched out then he would have gotten the booze and they would have gotten to the party and there would not have been a movie.  But it did happen and it was fantastic.

The second thing I wanted to talk about was the lack of cliche in the film.  The girls in the film invite these geeks to their party and the whole film you expect tragedy.  Becca talks nicely to Evan but the giggling from her friends makes you think there is something terrible going on…. but there isn’t.  The girls actually like our heroes.  That’s damn good ballsy film making.

That being said Superbad is very vulgar and it’s not the type of film I would recommend to my wife (or her sister) but I would force this film on anyone who loves good comedy and doesn’t mind the occasional (read:Constant) vulgar joke.

-Joshsc