Film Review

Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007)

This sweetly absurd high school comedy “Superbad”, Is a funny tale of three horny, geeks in high school trying to stay together in their last year of high school and last year of a ludicrously dependant friendship before moving off to separate colleges therefore having to contemplate life apart. Evan is an adorable boy, and smart but seems to be terrified of the opposite sex, whereas his best mate Seth seems to be foul-mouthed, impulsive, and is only obsessive over girls. Also tagging along is their awkward third wheel, a bespectacled wanksta named Fogell a.k.a. “McLovin.” Attempts to try to defeat the fact that they are all still virgins ends in a misguided attempt to advance on their objects of affection in just a panic-driven night.
Actor Seth Rogan that also co-writed and starred in this film, obviously put input from his other comedies that he has starred in, for instance “knocked up”, He keeps the same type of humour used the film and introduces it into this but using his own geeky twists. This comedy of a invigorating nature, about the various indignities that “coolness” demands, be it drunkenly smacking your head into the only interested girl’s face or even befriending a load of cokeheads in a basement that insist you sing to them some soul music. When Superbad nudges fun at that pointlessness, its appealing. Beyond the central arguing trio, there are gauzy areas, such as the pair of dumbass cops (one of them being Seth Rogan) and the usual lust objects.