Superbad

Genre - Comedy
Year Released - 2007
Running Time - 113 minutes
Directed by Greg Mottola (it looks like this is his first big feature film)
Written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (who also wrote Pineapple Express - which I haven't seen yet, but am looking forward to. They also wrote the screenplay for the forthcoming The Green Hornet, due in 2010)
Cast Includes:
Jonah Hill (Grandma's Boy, Knocked Up, Evan Almighty, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall)
Michael Cera (Juno - he also plays Nick in Nick & Nora's Infinite Playlist, which I haven't seen yet)
Christopher Mintz-Plasse (this is his first movie)
Seth Rogen (Donnie Darko, The 40-Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, as well as Kevin Smith's up-coming Zack & Miri Make a Porno)
Bill Hader (You, Me, and Dupree, Knocked Up, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Pineapple Express, and Tropic Thunder)
Emma Stone
Martha MacIsaac (she will be in next year's Re-make of The Last House on the Left)

Rating: 5 Skulls

Plot Summary:

A high-school comedy about two best friends facing separation anxiety as they prepare to go off to college. Attempting to score alcohol for a party (believing that the babes will follow) the boys' evening quickly dissolves into chaos.

Seth Rogen is "the man"!

Review:

I just watched this movie, for the very first time, and found it to be absolutely hysterical ~ laugh-out-loud funny! [I watched this while my son was taking his nap, and I am surprised that he slept through my constant laughing!] :-)

If you have not yet seen this movie, I definitely recommend it, though be warned: it is extremely crude & raunchy, and it has a ton of language! (If you are easilly offended, then this movie is not for you!)
Aside from that though, the movie is superbly well written by Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg. Actually, the two main characters are named Seth & Evan - I wonder if Rogen & Goldberg were writing from experience :-)

Seth Rogen (who, I think, is one of the funniest actors out there) and Bill Hader play two dim-witted police offers, who are an absolute riot!

One of my favorite scenes in the movie is when Seth (the character/played by Jonah Hill) admits to his best friend Evan, that when he was younger he had an unhealthy obsession with drawing a certain part of the human anatomy. . . I had tears in my eyes, I was laughing so hard! :-)

Another favorite part is when the three friends (Seth, Evan, and Fogell - aka McLOVIN) attempt to score some alcohol from a Liquor store. . . 1st Seth and then Fogell. . . Too funny!!! This movie is one that can be watched repeatedly and will be just as funny, every time!


Jason