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==Plot==
==Plot==
Evan ([[Michael Cera|Cera]]) and Seth ([[Jonah Hill|Hill]]) are close friends preparing to leave high school. Seth is invited to a party by Jules ([[Emma Stone|Stone]]) and agrees to provide the alcohol, using their friend Fogell’s ([[Christopher Mintz-Plasse|Mintz-Plasse]]) [[Identity document forgery|fake ID]].
Evan ([[Michael Cera]]) and Seth ([[Jonah Hill]]) are close friends who have known each other since they were eight years old preparing to leave high school to go to separate colleges. The film opens to the two on their way to school on the third to last Friday of the school year. Right before leaving the duo are greeted by Evan's mother who voices a concern that they will miss each other when they are at different schools. Seth and Even awkwardly tell her that they won't miss each other at all. Before school Seth parks his car in the staff parking lot and the two walk over to a convenience store to get drinks before class. Seth and Even go on to talk about the girls they think they would be able to have sex with before they go to college. Seth talks about his crush, Jules ([[Emma Stone]]) and Evan talks about his, Becca ([[Martha MacIsaac]]).


While purchasing the alcohol Fogell is assaulted during a robbery. Two police officers - Slater ([[Bill Hader|Hader]]) and Michaels ([[Seth Rogen|Rogen]]) - arrive on the scene to question the clerk and Fogell about the robbery, they offer him a lift to the party but make numerous stops first. Evan and Seth see the police car outside of the convenience store and assume that Fogell is being arrested for attempting to buy alcohol. While deciding what to do, Seth is hit by a car and the driver ([[Joe Lo Truglio|Lo Truglio]]) takes them to a party where they can find alcohol. While there they are involved in a fight and flee the party.
Seth gets partnered up with Jules in [[Home Economics]] which is when Jules tells about a party she was thinking about throwing and invites Seth to come. Seth immediately goes to talk to Evan about it, but they are interrupted when Evan's friend, Fogell ([[Christopher Mintz-Plasse]])walks in the class to tell them an embellished story about a girl he saw in the hallway. Seth (who doesn't like Fogell) makes fun of Fogell until he brings up that he would be getting a [[Identity document forgery|fake ID]]. Seth then tells Fogell about the party and says that he should help them get alcohol. Fogell agrees and tells them he'd be getting the ID at lunch. While talking to Jules, to impress her, he lets her know he'd have a fake ID and offers to buy the alcohol for the party. She gives him $100 and he runs to the soccer field to tell Evan, who is in [[P.E.]]. Seth tells Evan and goes on about a plan to get their crushes their alcohol, get them drunk, hook up with them, make them their girlfriends for the summer and go to college being good at having sex. Realizing this means he may have a chance to get with Becca before college, Evan asks her if he could get her a drink. Becca tells Evan how sweet he is and asks for "Goldslick Vodka".


Fogell, Evan and Seth flee the officers and arrive at Jules’ party. While there Evan pairs off with Becca ([[Martha MacIsaac|MacIsaac]]), Fogell pairs off with Nicola (Aviva Farber), and Seth attempts to pair off with Jules. The party is broken up by officers Slater and Michaels. The following day Seth and Evan meet Becca and Jules at the mall and they finally pair off successfully.
Seth and Evan meet up with Fogell after school to look at his new fake ID. Seth becomes skeptical of the ID because of the liberties Fogell took when filling out the ID, most notably changing his name to "McLovin". Seth now finds himself without a car because it was towed for being in the staff parking lot. In order to avert punishment from his parents he goes to Evan's house and changes into some of Evan's dad's clothing. While purchasing the alcohol, Fogell is punched during a robbery. Two fairly clueless police officers -- Slater ([[Bill Hader]]) and Michaels ([[Seth Rogen]]) -- arrive on the scene to question the clerk and Fogell about the robbery. Evan and Seth see the police car outside the convenience store and assume Fogell is being arrested for attempting to buy alcohol. While deciding what to do, Seth is hit by a car, and the driver ([[Joe Lo Truglio]]) a nervous shady man tells them he will do anything if they won't report him. Seth tells him that he will be reported if he doesn't get money (to make up for the $100 he believes that Fogell has just lost) or alcohol for the party. The man offers to take them to a separate party where they can find alcohol. Meanwhile the officers offer Fogell a lift to the party, convinced that his ID is real and he is a 25-year-old named McLovin. The police tell him that there is a very slim chance that the criminal will be caught. The officers take Fogell to a bar where they arrest a drunken man and stay for about an hour for drinks and conversation.

When they arrive Seth and Evan go through the house to find some beer until a fight breaks out between the man who owns the house and the man that drove them there (who is generally unwelcome at the party). After the fight the party comes back into the house and both Evan and Seth get distracted from the task at hand. Seth finds himself dancing with a drunk girl and has to find a bathroom to clean off the menstrual blood that she wipes on his leg. Evan goes to a closed room to call Becca and finds himself locked in as a group of men have closed it off to snort [[cocaine]]. In the basement Seth finds a refrigerator filled with beer and uses two laundry detergent bottles to smuggle alcohol out of the party. The two find each other and flee after a fight breaks out between Seth and the man engaged to the girl who bled on Seth's leg.
When far enough from the party Seth yells at Evan for not having his back and Evan gets him back for putting him in that dangerous situation. In the midst of the argument Seth complains that Evan is deserting him with Fogell to go to a different college. Officers Slater and Michaels are driving around with Fogell in the back when they accidentally hit Seth with the police car, damaging the windshield. They get out and blame it on Seth and Evan, making them lie face down on the ground and hold hands. Fogell steps out of the cop car and sees Seth and Evan and they look at each other deeply confused. Evan stands up and runs with Officer Michaels chasing. Then Fogell and Seth run the opposite direction and somehow meet up on the street.

The three find a bus that will take them to the party. When they get on the bus Fogell is noticed by the drunken man from the bar who had escaped from the back of the police car. The man starts a fight with Fogell and reaches for one of the bags from the liquor store. Evan gets in a fight tugging over the Goldslick he got for Becca. The bottle shatters hitting the ground and the boys are kicked off the bus with all of their alcohol. Evan resolves that he doesn't need to get Becca drunk and he will just tell her how he feels.

Eventually, the boys make it to Jules' party and Evan finds an already very drunk Becca rambling on about how she's going to hook up with Evan. Evan feels that it isn't ethically right for him to have sex with Becca as she is drunk so he goes to a bathroom to drink. Seth becomes the life of the party as he has provided all of the alcohol and entertains with shots and stories of the preceding events of his night. Fogell sees Nicola, the girl that he had talked about in Home-ec, and begins to talk to her and dance with her. Evan goes out to talk to Becca. She takes him up to a bedroom and she begins to awkwardly undress Evan and herself as Evan drunkenly tries and tells her how he feels about her. When she is about to let Evan have sex with her Evan realizes this isn't how he wanted it to be. He didn't want to be some drunken hook-up so he turns her down and she throws up all over the bed. Jules finds Seth to thank him for bringing the alcohol and they talk for a while. Seth drunkenly attempts to kiss her and she pushes him away. She tells Seth that she doesn't drink and she would rather wait until they were both sober to kiss. Seth gets sad because he now believes he screwed up his whole plan. As Jules is consoling him he falls over and hits her in the face.

Officers Michael and Slater come to break up the party and walk in on Fogell while he is just starting to have sex with Nicola. Nicola leaves and the officers tell him that they knew he was underage, but didn't say anything about it because they saw a little of themselves in him. To make it up the police officers pretend to arrest him while he pretends to resist, leading onlookers to conclude he's tough. To avoid problems about the damaged police car they make up a story about junkies stealing the car and destroying it for which Fogell is willing to make a false statement. Officer Slater shows off doing donuts with car and slams it into a pole. The police then torch the car and let Fogell shoot at it for one last thrill.

After the party is over, Seth carries Evan half way home because Evan briefly passes out just before Slater and Michaels arrive, they decide to sleep over at Evan's house where they drunkenly declare their love for each other and reconcile after tensions erupted due to their impeding separation when college begins. The next day the two go to the mall where they run into Becca and Jules. They are there so Becca can buy Jules a new comforter for the one she threw up on and for Jules to buy some makeup to cover her black eye. Seth agrees to buy the makeup for Jules while Evan goes with Becca to buy a comforter. They separate with their respective crushes and the film ends with a shot of Seth slowly disappearing down an escalator smiling back at Evan while they each talk to the girls.


==Cast==
==Cast==

Revision as of 13:27, 10 January 2008

Superbad
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGreg Mottola
Written byEvan Goldberg
Seth Rogen
Produced byJudd Apatow
Evan Goldberg
Shauna Robertson
Seth Rogen
StarringJonah Hill
Michael Cera
Chris Mintz-Plasse
Bill Hader
Seth Rogen
CinematographyRuss T. Alsobrook
Edited byGeritt Moyer
Music byLyle Workman
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Apatow Productions
Release dates
August 17, 2007
Running time
Theatrical cut
114 min.
Unrated cut
118 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$20 million[1]
Box office$166,705,541 (worldwide)

Superbad is a 2007 comedy film written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who began writing the script when they were 13 years old.[2] The film's main characters have the same first names as Rogen and Goldberg. The film is directed by former television director Greg Mottola and is produced by Judd Apatow, previously known for directing The 40 Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up.

The film was a critical and commercial success, inspiring comparisons to Apatow's previous film, Knocked Up, which was released earlier in the summer.

Plot

Evan (Cera) and Seth (Hill) are close friends preparing to leave high school. Seth is invited to a party by Jules (Stone) and agrees to provide the alcohol, using their friend Fogell’s (Mintz-Plasse) fake ID.

While purchasing the alcohol Fogell is assaulted during a robbery. Two police officers - Slater (Hader) and Michaels (Rogen) - arrive on the scene to question the clerk and Fogell about the robbery, they offer him a lift to the party but make numerous stops first. Evan and Seth see the police car outside of the convenience store and assume that Fogell is being arrested for attempting to buy alcohol. While deciding what to do, Seth is hit by a car and the driver (Lo Truglio) takes them to a party where they can find alcohol. While there they are involved in a fight and flee the party.

Fogell, Evan and Seth flee the officers and arrive at Jules’ party. While there Evan pairs off with Becca (MacIsaac), Fogell pairs off with Nicola (Aviva Farber), and Seth attempts to pair off with Jules. The party is broken up by officers Slater and Michaels. The following day Seth and Evan meet Becca and Jules at the mall and they finally pair off successfully.

Cast

Reception

According to Box Office Mojo, the film opened at #1 at the U.S. box office, grossing $33,052,411 in its opening weekend in 2,948 theaters with an average of $11,212 per theater.[3] The film stayed at #1 the second week, grossing $18,044,369.[3] As of January 3, 2008, the film has grossed an estimated $121,463,226 domestically, and $48,101,378 overseas, for a total of $169,564,604 worldwide. Compared to the relatively small budget of $20 million, the film was a huge success. [1] The film is the highest grossing high school comedy of all time. [4]

As of October 11, 2007, the film-critics aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes listed 87% positive reviews based on 174 reviews (151 "fresh", 23 "rotten") with the consensus that it was "an authentic take on the awkwardness of the high school experience." It also has an 86% Cream Of The Crop rating. [5] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 76% based on 36 reviews.[6].

Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle called it 2007's most successful comedy.[7] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 1/2 stars (out of 4) and said "The movie reminded me a little of National Lampoon's Animal House, except that it's more mature, as all movies are."[8] Carina Chocano of the Los Angeles Times said "Physically, Hill and Cera recall the classic comic duos -- Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, Aykroyd and Belushi. But they are contemporary kids, sophisticated and sensitive to nuance"; he added, "I hope it's not damning the movie with the wrong kind of praise to say that for a film so deliriously smutty, Superbad is supercute".[9] Sean Burns of Philadelphia Weekly said "2007: the year Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen saved movie comedy", a reference to Knocked Up which was released in June.[10] Devin Gordon of Newsweek said "As a Revenge of the Nerds redux, Superbad isn't perfect. But it's super close."[11]

Stephen Farber of The Hollywood Reporter, conversely, compared the film to the similar single-day structure of American Graffiti and Dazed and Confused, but that "it doesn't have the smarts or the depths of those ensemble comedies".[12] Adam Graham of The Detroit News said, "the cops belong in a bad Police Academy sequel, not this movie", and also that the film "falls short of teen-classic status."[13] Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel called the film "super-derivative", "super-raunchy", and "Freaks & Geeks: Uncensored". Moore went on to say the film shamelessly steals from movies such as Can't Hardly Wait and American Graffiti. He also said, "Like Knocked Up, this is a comedy they don't know how to end. The energy flags as it overstays its welcome."[14] Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe said the film "has a degree more sophistication than Revenge of the Nerds and American Pie, and less than the underrated House Party". Morris also said, "the few smart observations could have come from an episode of one of [Apatow's] TV shows" and "I wanted to find this as funny as audiences did".[15]

Top ten lists

The film appeared on several critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2007.[16]

Release

Soundtrack

Main article: Superbad (soundtrack)

Original music for the film was composed by Lyle Workman. A soundtrack to the film was released on August 7, 2007.

Blu-ray Disc and DVD release

The film was released December 4, 2007 on both high-definition Blu-ray Disc and standard DVD in rated (113 min.) and unrated (118 min.) editions, and in an unrated extended Blu-ray Disc two-disc edition with special features including deleted scenes and bloopers. The Blu-ray edition has a feature "SuperMeter" that counts the obscenities while you watch the movie and also includes a special scene during the credits in which the character Fogell displays a phone number written on cardboard most likely as a producer prank.[17]

References

  1. ^ a b "Superbad (2007)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2007-09-24.
  2. ^ Dylan Callaghan (2007-08-17). "It's Funnier With People". Writer's Guild of America. Retrieved 2007-11-05. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ a b "Superbad (2007) - Weekend Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2007-09-24.
  4. ^ Box Office Mojo: Charts - High School Comedy
  5. ^ Rotten Tomatoes: Superbad Retrieved 2007-09-03
  6. ^ Metacritic: Superbad Retrieved 2007-09-03
  7. ^ Mick LaSalle (2007-08-17). "Review: Teens on a mission to buy booze in 'Superbad'". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2007-08-19. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  8. ^ Roger Ebert (2007-08-16). ":: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Superbad". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2007-08-19. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  9. ^ Carina Chocano (2007-08-17). "'Superbad's' teen raunch isn't what's shocking; it's the love story". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2007-08-19. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  10. ^ Sean Burns. "Geek Outlook". Philadelphia Weekly. Retrieved 2007-08-19.
  11. ^ Devin Gordon (Aug. 20-27, 2007 issue). "Revenge of the Nerds". Newsweek. Retrieved 2007-08-21. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ^ Stephen Farber (2007-08-07). "Superbad". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2007-08-21. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  13. ^ Adam Graham (2007-08-16). "Laughable roles". The Detroit News. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
  14. ^ Roger Moore (2007-08-17). "'Superbad' is super-derivative". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 2007-08-21. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  15. ^ Wesley Morris (2007-08-17). ""It's a nerd, he's in pain -- it's Superbad"". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2007-08-21. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  16. ^ "Metacritic: 2007 Film Critic Top Ten Lists". Metacritic. Retrieved 2008-01-05.
  17. ^ http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/superbad.html
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