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

| Feb 7, 2018

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

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

[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

This is the funniest picture since Borat, and more emotionally nuanced than you would expect.

| Jan 4, 2008

If you can stand the predatory assumptions, which are that girls are mere sex objects to most teenage boys, there's much more to this movie than the usual teen comedy. You can't help laughing even as you wince.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 14, 2007

The observation of their insecurity and antagonism is very accurate; my problem is that it's not all that funny.

| Sep 14, 2007

The film proves only that a Hollywood fixated on the slapstick potential of teenage growing pains is finding it harder than ever to say, "Bye, bye, American Pie".

| Sep 14, 2007

It's a film that makes American Pie seem sophisticated, and it will have cultural critics shaking their heads and muttering about the death of Western civilization. I loved it.

| Sep 14, 2007

It's pretty crass and pretty silly, but only a puritanical grump would deny it's funny.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 14, 2007

There are some excruciatingly funny moments but there are perhaps not as many laughs as you would hope for given the script's comedy pedigree.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 14, 2007

It's as if Mike Leigh decided to make a gross-out comedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2007

Doesn't quite have the insight of a classic, but it'll have you smirking for weeks.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2007

'Superbad' at its best goes right through knockabout to land in deliciously obscene places - notably a staggering succession of doodles in which tumescent cocks take on various extraordinary guises.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 14, 2007

The main idea behind Superbad is to put all the stupid things boys and girls do into one night of mayhem. Most of it is fuelled by drink and hormones and nearly all of it is from life.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 14, 2007

Equally hilarious and heartfelt, this is the best teen movie since American Pie and should make stars of the fantastic Cera and Hill.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2007

A critical mass of these kinds of flicks argues for a new subgenre: "nerdsploitation."

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 25, 2007

Even though it takes the low road, this guided tour of Loserville offers as many belly laughs as Knocked Up -- and that's saying a lot.

Full Review | Aug 18, 2007

Superbad is a funny, boozy, ramshackle party, but it's more likely to leave audiences with a tingly afterglow than a pounding hangover.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 17, 2007

Like attending a reunion or opening a yearbook, I know I'll be looking back fondly on Superbad for years to come, and laugh my ass off every time.

Full Review | Aug 17, 2007