Superbad

The hilariousness of this movie has been talked about for a year. Finally I got around to seeing it. It was wonderful. Some parts of the movie were immature. These parts of the movie were my guilty pleasures. There was a lot of filthy humor but there was also intelligent humor.

Held against movies like Van Wilder 2: The rise of Taj, Superbad is a king of its genre. It depicted what to me would be an ideal high school senior year evening, and it depicted three different types from three different perspectives.

The movie is constantly bombarding the audience with jokes and funny situations. Conflicts and obstacles are numerous. On the one hand there is the overall obstacle of fitting in to the social scene. This creates conflicts with classmates and leads the the obstacle of buying alcohol without being 21. This then leads to conflicts with police and people at other parties. Then on top of it all there are the conflicts between Evan and Seth (the two main characters). Evan got into Dartmouth and Seth didn't. Seth feels like Evan is abandoning him. He also takes his anger out on Mclovin who did get into Dartmouth.

Jonah Hill is hilarious and Michael Cera's humor is indescribable. They make you remember some of your more awkward high school years (which is not too difficult for me considering that my more awkward high school years were last week).

Superbad loses some points because it is always easy to get laughs from humor about sex and drugs. These laughs are cheap laughs. As leader of improv troupe I explain improv's universal goal of integrity. Staying away from humor about sex and drugs leads to smarter humor and smarter improv that can be more enjoyable to both audience and improviser.

Final Rating: 4.5