Sunday, August 19, 2007

SEPARATION ANXIETY: Superbad is a worthy successor to the last-day-of-school movie genre, a lewd, raucous, warm and not even subtly homoerotic Bildungsroman that gave me a big pile of out-loud laughs last night. It is limited by the fact that it is very much a boy's movie -- by them and about them, with their female counterparts as mysterious to us as they are to Seth, Evan and McLovin. But given that, it's still honestly warm and sweet in ways that such films often aren't, and if you're a fan of erection jokes and seeing Jonah Hill fall down, you'll get more than your money's worth.

On a personal note, I might have been a lot cooler growing up had there been movie stars back then who looked like Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen. Just saying, is all.

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