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Superbad is one of those really cool films which give you a dose of the life that American high school-ers experience. There is friendship, love, lust, crushes, fun with booze and a whole lot of things that would give you a nice feel-good quotient at the end of the movie.
The movie is basically the efforts made by Seth, Evan and Fogell to make a party, memorable. They feel that booze is the X-Factor that would get them laid with the chicks and make the party a remarkable one. Fogell gets a fake ID with the name McLovin to get the required booze. But on his adventure, he gets caught up with a couple of madcap cops, Slater and Michaels, who just want to have some boyish fun.
Seth and Evan also do their part to get the booze - they make an appearance at an adults' party and it is another crazy ride for them. They go through one helluva ride to finally make it to the party organized by Jules, Seth's crush. Becca and Evan also have a little thing for each other. At the party, Fogell also gets his share of tits and ass, well almost ...
In the end, the movie is as much about the intense friendship between Evan and Seth as it is about their natural growing process filled with fetishes toward the females.
The movie also introduces us to some classic terms like cock-blocking, guiding the cock and such. The screenplay is such a ride that you just can't help coming to the edge of your seats and travelling along with the main leads. You will actually envy the life that these kids are living. Hollywood party movies are always such an escapist ride. You just can't have such parties in your daily lives.
Jonah Hill, my man, he is such a natural. An uninhibited performer who goes all out and doesn't mind playing the fool. We can feel the intensity of his friendship when he carries his friend in the end to escape from the cops. That scene in the end, when the two friends lie down beside each other and repeatedly tell "I Love You" to each other is gay though. Hill's stunt-double actually takes some nasty falls as he is knocked over by cars on more than one instance. The scene when he dances with a girl who is in her monthly period and the efforts that he makes to remove the resultant blood stains from his pant are absolutely crazy. The way he walks around with beer in a couple of big cans is also pretty weird.
The scenes, when McLovin and the two cops go around the town painting it red with their antics, are again delightfully funny and escapist.
Among the other actors, Michael Cera is damn girly and delicate as Evan while Christopher Mintz-Plasee is a dude in his own nerdy way, as Fogell. The cops, played by Bill Hader and Seth Rogen (also one of the writers) give the boys a run for their money with their antics. The girls in the movie are all pretty and hot.
FINAL WORD: An all-time classic in the 'boys comedy' genre, meant for the hormone driven youth.
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