Superbad is a movie about partying and getting wasted and getting the girl, but as the night wears on, much wisdom is gained too, about self, friendship and the end of teenage innocence in all its wondrous, terrifying splendor.
– Scott Foundas,
Village Voice,
3 Aug 2013
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What makes the film so appealing is the disconnect between what comes from the mouths of these hormone-addled pups and what's going on in their heads, where they're still clinging desperately to the innocence they're leaving behind.
– Bob Mondello,
NPR.org,
18 Oct 2008
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[Cera] has some of the best comic timing of anyone working in film today, a precocious sense of the awkward pauses and misread cues in which social panic resides.
– Christopher Orr,
The New Republic,
22 Sep 2008
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This is the funniest picture since Borat, and more emotionally nuanced than you would expect.
– Tom Charity,
CNN.com,
4 Jan 2008
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'Superbad' at its best goes right through knockabout to land in deliciously obscene places - notably a staggering succession of doodles in which tumescent cocks take on various extraordinary guises.