Superbad

By: Tyler Henderson Hill

Monday August 06, 2007

Super funny?
When I first saw the title for this movie, Superbad, I wasn’t too excited. It sounded like it would be some really lame comedy. Then I saw the trailer for it though, and I got really excited. Actor Jonah Hill has a starring role. Fans will recognize him from the recent movie Knocked Up and from Accepted. He played histerically funny characters in those movies and it looks like he is going to do the same in this film. Also from Knocked Up is Seth Rogen, who not only is in the film but also co-wrote it. Producer Judd Apatow has produced such films as Anchorman and Talladega Nights, while he wrote and directed Knocked Up and The Forty Year Old Virgin. These guys have a pretty good background of making funny movies, and now they’ve come together for Superbad.

Superbad is a high school film in which two friends, Jonah Hill and Michael Cera, another young actor, must deal with their high school years coming to an end. Written by Rogen and his friend Evan Goldberg, they say that it is based on their high school experiences; they tried to make it as close to the real thing as possible. To me, this sounds promising. This movie won’t be just another high school movie with all the cliché groups of friends and the “traditional” pecking order of students. In fact, that was one of the goals of the movie, to make the film about real high school experiences.

The film concentrates on how the two friends have to face going to separate colleges. That is with out a doubt one of the hardest things about high school, is how your group of friends can be split up when everyone leaves for college. Apatow puts it nicely when he says that “that’s how you know you’re growing up; you don’t have those people to depend on anymore.” These two friends turn that fear into an obsession to accomplish something before they leave. The obsession is over, what else, high school girls. Now that part of the film may be a little cliché, but I’m willing to accept that for what else the movie has to offer. A version of what high school was actually like for some people. That’s not all the film has to offer however.

I predict that this movie is going to offer some truly outrageous humor. With all of the far out humor experience that the actors and producer have, it’s pretty much a sure thing. I expect the actors to do a great job pulling off this high school comedy and I’m preparing myself to laugh out loud in the theater. When the film comes out on August 17th, make sure you go see it.