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(1 - 45) of 45 OFCS Rating: 89% Fresh Page   1   A "As much as it may scare a lot of parents out there, anyone who has been through the rigors and craziness of contemporary high school will find something to identify with."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 3.5/5 "If you ever wondered what Sixteen Candles...would look and sound like fashioned after the aesthetic mindset of someone like Kevin Smith, Superbad is the answer"   PopMatters   Bill Gibron A- "Captures the mysterious pit of erection-led shame that lies deep inside every self-conscious young man...the most truthful portrayal of uncut teenage thinking put to the screen since Fast Times at Ridgemont High."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf A- "The comic inventions at play are so beyond the pale, and yet so within the realm of teenage possibility, that we follow imaginary emotional arcs of pubescent experience. This is fun stuff."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "High school virgins equipped with attitude and wit and resentment, they are, at the same time, kids who have no idea how to manage being high school virgins."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 4/5 "You'll have to take about 15 showers to get the taint of "Superbad" out of your system, but laughter is almost guaranteed."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 2.5/4 "It's only when the characters are split up during the film's episodic mid-section that one's interest starts to flag..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C+ "[I] found the slapstick jokes silly but not funny; that the girls were just used as ciphers, representing temptation for the fellas; and that it ends with a gooey finish that fails to make the comedy as relevant as it seems to think it is."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/4 "Superbad is a successful laugher, no doubt about it, but what lingers afterwards is the poignancy of childhoods reaching an end."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman A- "I've seen a few movies that were a little funnier, but I don't think I've ever seen so many individual performances that brought more laughs than these three do."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 4/4 "Superbad winds up being the best single night comedy since Martin Scorsese's After Hours. You may just be compelled to stick around for the next showing because comedies this great are all too rare."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress 3/4 "Yet another in a fine line of the coming of age buddy comedies..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. 3/4 "...subversively spry...one will come away with a strange sense of raunchy resonance that hasn't been quite felt before in aimless fratboy flatulent farces."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C "Thrives on rowdiness and raunchiness and celebrates the infantilism of the male side of the species as a source of boundless humor."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A raunchy teen comedy flick about parties and having sex that really wants to say something about male friendship."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "Maybe I would have been better off seeing Superbad before it became an instant cult classic."   Film and Felt   Gabe Leibowitz B+ "Superbad is one long coitus interruptus, a dry-dream nightmare."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 3/4 "The movie is frequently amusing and occasionally uproarious."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3.5/5 "Perfectly honest about the late adolescent male experience, in all its hilarious ugliness."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 7/10 "A guided tour of what it's like to live in the crucible of dealing with teenage hormones, impulses, desires, and curiosities while always having your self-esteem put at risk."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 8/10 "It’s the film’s consistent and creative humor that keeps this comedic motor chugging away, along with the palpable chemistry between all of the teenagers."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 9/10 "The best comedy of the summer."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 5/5 "Formulaically, Superbad is nothing you've never seen before: what makes it special is that wonderful and miraculous alchemy of the words, Apatow's craft, and 3 leads who are simply beyond compare."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 3.5/4.0 "... a humanizing comedy built around the coming-of-age absurdity of actually getting whatever it is you think you want."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 3.5/4 "I don't think I've ever identified this much with a high school movie."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest B+ "...a teen sex comedy that finds funny in the low brow while being very smart about it."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/3 "Rogen y Goldberg salvan una comedia de tres al cuarto mezclando sin tapujos alusiones a los Beatles y Ciudadano Kane con imágenes -mentales- de prepucios y fornicio"   Off-Off-Critica   MalaBesta 3.5/4 "The film is rude and crude, but it's truthful about those elements, about its characters, and, above all, about the experience of being young and stupid."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "This is why Hollywood mostly sucks: Corporate movies are getting made from scripts written by 13-year-olds who went on to drop out of high school."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "Ribald repartée is the engine that drives the script, and the lead duo are nimble with the often-foul one-liners and fearless with the go-for-broke comic situations."   Mr. Brown's Movies   Michael Dequina 4/5 "Superbad is easily one of the funniest comedies of the year and one you wouldn't mind seeing again and again."   Film Threat   Michael Ferraro 3.5/4 "This is the kind of comedy that causes you to throw your head back, stomp your feet, and pound on the armrest. The laughs are so big that your whole body reacts, not just your mouth."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ "Their almost Tourette-ish stream of endless obscenities, vivid and imaginative as they are, are less an expression of their actual interests and intentions than they are a sort of terrified incantation to ward off their greatest fear: humiliation."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 3/4 "No film in the history of cinema has displayed as much interest in male genitalia."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 4/5 "Effortlessly combines the outrageous adventure plot with some strikingly serious subtext about friends growing up and growing apart."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/5 "At its best it's naggingly and obscenely funny, but its 'heart' fails to convince."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves B+ "Its keen sense of self-criticism makes it the superbaddest one of all."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick B "Somehow, the unlikely combination of crass comedy and romance really works."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B "Think Porky's meldied with Fast Times at Ridgemont High, wth Superbad taking the foul language and obsession with sex of the former and the coming-of-age scenarios of the latter."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford B+ "... a smart evocation of teenage insecurity and the irrational acts raging hormones can inspire."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 3/5 "Clumsily falters when its leads are separated, but sparkles when vulgar Hill, deadpan Cera, and spastic Mintz-Plasse playfully improvise together."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 3.5/4 "a fresh air"   sbs.is   Stefan Birgir Stefansson "The movie doesn't need any superfluous redeeming qualities: Its pleasures and charms lie in its very crudeness, in the way the characters' thoughts begin in their dicks and spill out of their mouths, completely bypassing their brains."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 8/10 "I find myself reflecting not upon the hilarity (of which there is more than enough here), but upon how desperately sad so much of the film is behind the booze and boob jokes."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 2.5/4 "It is what it is."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 45) of 45 OFCS Rating: 89% Fresh Page   1