The best of all of that era’s comedies, and one of the funniest teen movies ever" (25th anniversary)

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 26, 2022

The oftentimes outrageous dialogue and vulgar exchanges between stars Michael Cera and Jonah Hill are both wildly hilarious and genuinely portrayed.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 28, 2020

An intelligent and occasionally insightful look at the sometimes scary place we call the adolescent male mind.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 24, 2020

There are enough laughs to make it worth your time. It may not be super good, but it is good enough.

| Nov 21, 2019

Hysterically funny and also strangely poignant and heartfelt.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 6, 2019

... "Superbad" isn't perfect. But it's super close.

| Feb 7, 2018

Yes, Superbad is a boy's story, so a certain perspective should be expected, and it's not the cheerful filth that bothers me, nor even the conventional morality; it's the paternalism.

| Aug 23, 2017

... the love child of American Pie and Dazed and Confused.

| Feb 14, 2017

Superbad is a movie about partying and getting wasted and getting the girl, but as the night wears on, much wisdom is gained too, about self, friendship and the end of teenage innocence in all its wondrous, terrifying splendor.

| Aug 3, 2013

Beneath the swearing and the tampon jokes lies a sweet-hearted tale of three chums celebrating the end of their carefree high-school days.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 3, 2013

It's a simple tale about two horny kids not only on a quest for vodka, beer and sticky fumbling, but they're looking to find themselves in the process. I'll be damned if there's many people left in the cinema afterwards who won't relate to that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2012

Honest goodwill, fond observational detail and Greg Mottola's exuberant direction make the picture nigh on irresistible, but there are some missteps.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2010

The affable trajectory covers enough guffaws to balance out the flattest visuals this side of The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

| Aug 27, 2009

Like all Apatow productions, it's far too long but it has a winning combination of cleverly crude humor and genuine sweetness.

| Apr 3, 2009

What makes the film so appealing is the disconnect between what comes from the mouths of these hormone-addled pups and what's going on in their heads, where they're still clinging desperately to the innocence they're leaving behind.

| Oct 18, 2008

With Superbad, Rogen continues to show off his writing skills, delivering one of the most viciously funny movies since Super Troopers.

| Original Score: A | Oct 18, 2008

[Cera] has some of the best comic timing of anyone working in film today, a precocious sense of the awkward pauses and misread cues in which social panic resides.

| Sep 22, 2008

The comic-duo of Jonah Hill and Michael Cera reminded me of an immature, foul-mouthed Laurel & Hardy.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 4, 2008

even if Superbad's not much more than a teen comedy, it's the best teen comedy to come out in at least a decade. There's no shame in that.

| Jul 31, 2008

Thanks to Rogen and Apatow we can once again look forward to seeing R-rated comedies.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 22, 2008