Product Description
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From the guy who brought you Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old
Virgin comes Superbad. Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera)
want nothing more than to lose their virginity before they head
off to college. To do that, though, they need to get liquor for
the big party that night. With the help of their friend Fogell,
a.k.a. McLovin (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), and his fake I.D., the
three of them go on a hilarious chase for that elusive booze,
dodging incompetent cops (Knocked Up's Seth Rogen and "Saturday
Night Live's" Bill Hader), angry neighbors and jealous
boyfriends.
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Striking a balance between raunch and sweetness is a tall order
for any film, but the Judd Apatow-produced Superbad manages to
serve up both in equal and satisfying portions without
undercutting a consistent stream of laugh-out-loud performances
and gags. Michael Cera (the sublime George Michael Bluth from
Arrested Development) and unstoppable scene-stealer Jonah Hill
(Apatow's Knocked Up) are lifelong pals who attempt to make up
for years of obscurity by getting into one blowout party before
parting ways for college; an rtunity presents itself in the
form of Hill's crush, the lovely Jules (Emma Stone), who wants
the boys to bring liquor to her shindig. What follows is a
combination road adventure and coming of age story as Cera and
Hill tackle crazed partygoers, a pair of overeager cops (played
by co-scripter and producer Seth Rogen and Saturday Night Live 's
Bill Hader), and the hard truth about girls and their own
emotional bond. The humor is crass and occasionally gross but
never mean-spirited, and Cera and Hill offer believable
performances as guys wholly unaware of their own potential, yet
ready to risk humiliation in order to find out. They're well
supported by a cast of Apatow regulars, including Kevin Corrigan,
Martin Starr, David Krumholtz, and Carla Gallo (and Stone and
Martha MacIsaac are terrific as their love interests), but the
film is completely shoplifted by newcomer Christopher
Mintz-Plasse as their uber-nerdy pal Fogell, whose fake ID handle
is among the movie's funniest gags. Classic funk fans should also
keep an ear out for the score by Lyle Workman, which features
such James Brown and P-Funk veterans as Bootsy Collins, Bernie
Worrell, and Clyde Stubblefield. --Paul Gaita
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Special features in this Two-Disc Unrated Extended Edition
include some delights, such as a making-of documentary that
explains how the film evolved over several years (the part of
Seth was originally going to be played by his namesake, Seth
Rogan). Further underscoring the long development process are
videos script readings from 2002 (featuring Rogan as Seth) and
2006 (with Hill in the role). The latter session is a
lot of fun: Hill, Cera, Mintz-Plasse and the others already had
their characters down before shooting began. Also in the special
features file is a gag reel, plus extended and deleted scenes (a
couple of which are really worth seeing), and something called
"Line-o-rama," which showcases rtunities actors had to
improvise lines of dialogue, for better or worse. --Tom Keogh
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