Superbad Critique

The critique I chose to write about was by Colin Covert from the Minneapolis Star Tribune, about the recently released movie Superbad. I chose to write about this review because the author seemed to have a smiliar view to mine on this film.

I had heard people talking about this film for months before I finally decided to go and see it. I haven't been to the theaters in a while but I am glad I finally got around to going there. I had fairly high expectations for the movie based on everything that I had already heard. When I was going to see the movie I was expecting it to compare to movies such as The 40 Year Old Virgin or Knocked Up. When I got to the movies I was very excited to see what was to come. After the first five minutes of the movie I knew that it was going to thouroughly enjoy this epic movie. As the movie went on I got more and more into it and couldn't take my eyes off the screen. I found every line of this movie to be hillarious and thought the scenes were genius! The critique that I read also had some of the same views as mine such as...

I hurt my face laughing at "Superbad,"

I totally agree with what Colin is saying. The laughs kept on flowing from everyone throughout the entire movie. This movie was a hillarious depiction of how I think the high school life actually is, with a little exaguration of course. Many of the ideas from this movie were what I would imagine actually happening in the high school life, such as a nerdy guy trying to impress a "hott" girl by promising to bring alcohol to her party. This movie was also of course full of things that could never happen such as the ride along with the two police officers. I found that to be one of the funniest parts of the movie because of all the police moives there are where all the officers are super serious and tights asses. It was good to get a break and have some laughs about the police.

The cast is perfection. Hill and Cera riff together so effortlessly that you
can believe they've spent years together developing their syncopated banter.

I also agree with this quote that speaks about that actors. These two actors totally hit the money on this film. All of the scenes with them together were perfect and so well executed. I totally forgot about that acting and thought of them as two real people on a ridiculous adventure. When a director can make the film seem so real I think they have suceeded in making a good film. The friendship that was shown in this movie was a wonderful depiction of how friendships play out on the last few months/weeks before the seperate for college. Obviously there isn't nessesarily so much drama but the basic idea of spliting up is true. I found this truth to build in to the true life experiences being shown on film. Overall this was a wonderful film and I reccomend it to anyone.