Superbad: DVD, Blu-ray movie Review (2007)

Actually, quite good.

The story hinges on three nebbish high school seniors invited to a party at which they agree to bring the alcohol. All of the alcohol.

Though nerdy Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) has scored a fake ID, the idea that these three teens offer to get the booze for scores of people proves the colossal mistake of their young lives. The trouble with the ID is that it states that Fogell is 25 years old and that he apparently has just one name--McLovin.

Let's be clear here. There is nothing about this slight reed of a boy that suggests he’s anywhere near the age of 25, and there certainly is nothing that hints that he ever could earn the name McLovin.

But that's what the ID says and so, thrown for a loop, lifelong best friends Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) decide to follow through with their promise to get the hooch and thus everyone loaded.

The idea isn't just that they'll at last be accepted by a student body that has shunned them for years, but that they also might catch the eye of a pretty girl or two. And wouldn't that be a sweet way to end their senior year?

In spite of the film's deluge of raunchy dialogue and sight gags, tender notes are struck.

The movie is less-successful in its addition of screenwriters Seth Rogen (star of Judd Apatow’s “Knocked Up”) and Evan Goldberg as an unlikely couple of wayward cops, so it’s good that the movie is very good at examining a lifelong friendship at a crossroads.

Seth and Evan are two unpopular kids who grew up to become two unpopular individuals. They always promised they'd go to the same college together, but Evan recently has been accepted into Dartmouth and he's going.

As for Seth, who favors the occasional display of mock masturbation, he isn't exactly Dartmouth material, which causes a rift between the two that leads to a drunken revelation best left for the surprise of the screen.

Rated R. Grade: B+

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