the movie was made to make people laugh.
entire theatres laughed CONSTANTLY through the film...barely getting a chance to regain their composure, for even just a few seconds.

if that doesn't deserve a positive review, i don't know what does.

It was way better than Knocked Up. I haven't laughed so hard at a movie in ages. But the writer needs to stop pairing his heroes with women way out of their league.

Matt, I'm really surprised you saw it, considering your reaction to Knocked Up. Kudos, good sir. Kudos.

Just to clarify, tho, and because I'm an obsessive compulsive jackass, Knocked Up was written by Judd Apatow, while Superbad was written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. So different writers. However! I thank all three of them for acknowledging that sometimes jackassy guys do end up with women who are way, way out of their league. That does happen in real life, and it's happened to me, and christ, is it ever awesome.

I thought it was hilarious, but it was one of the first movies of this sort that really reminded me that I am, in fact, a 25-year-old woman, not a 17-year-old boy. I mean, should I still be laughing at all these dick jokes? I mean, of course I should, they're funny and somehow smart.

and funny guys get girls...deal with it.

I saw both Superbad and Knocked Up this weekend (for the second and third times, respectively). I'm going to do something radical here and disagree with Matt—I think Knocked Up is the stronger of the two films. I liked Superbad a lot, but there were a lot of scenes that just should've been funnier than they were (Bill Hader didn't pull his weight, as far as I'm concerned). It was very awkward-boy centric, which is charming and adorable, but I couldn't relate to it at all. Plus both films had sort of meandering, unnecessary subplots (the random hipster party they crash in Superbad that seemed to serve no function other than to allow Michael Cera to sing--brilliant!--and the gyno hunt/doctor switcharoo in Knocked Up), and the one in Knocked Up was far more substantial. Ultimately, I guess I think grown-up relationships are more interesting than teenage boys trying to get a piece (though, granted, Superbad is at its core a pretty sweet buddy movie).

Erik: Are they different writers? Oh. Sorry. Well this writer's better. And for the record I don't think you're a Jackassy type of guy. Stop doing yourself down.

Alison: Are we getting into the Knocked Up conversation again?

http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/2007/06/good_morning_news_67.php

Must we?

Matt: I'd rather slam my fingers repeatedly in a desk drawer.

I was wondering what that noise was, coming from next door.

I finally saw Knocked Up for the first time this weekend... so if you two decide to get into it again, I'm ready!!

Your friend Dali sounds hot.

I thought Superbad was hilarious, but it could have been more hilarious if it didn't turn into American Pie three quarters of the way through. As soon as they get to the party the movie stops being about the jokes. The jokes are still in there, but while previously this was a comedy about teen sex, now it is a teen sex movie that occassionally makes jokes.

Superbad may be quoted for a while, but I don't think anything will ever be as annoying as the amateur Austin Powers impressions, which are still going on and show no sign of slowing. Like, ever. Realistically, people have pretty much stopped with the Napoleon Dynamite and Borat shit, but I don't think I've gone a full day without hearing some idiot yell out "Yeah, baby!" in ten years.

And so the McLovin' overkill begins.

Per Matt D.'s comment about pairing men with women who are way out of their league, David D. of the new yorker wrote some stuff about it a few weeks ago. Older rom coms, he writes, tended to match up the guys and gals - they challenged one another with their intelligence and wit - while contemporary ones tend to pair developmentally arrested men with smart, humorless women. And for some reason the women are all for it... or they feel it's their only option. or something. Knocked Up, According to Jim, and such -- they're popular, so this idea must be tapping straight into some sort of zeitgeist.

I was ready to not like Knocked Up (I thought it would be too farty... plus, Erik loved it too much). But then I read Denby's article and felt like I'd be missing something by not seeing it. So I saw it last Fri., and I thought it was good!

Anyway, there's that article to read.

Thanks for posting that link. I'll read it later, instead of working.