Superbad (DVD)

• Category:  Video  »  Comedy  »  Comedy, General
• Format: DVD
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. & Canada only.)  Learn more about DVD formats.
  
• Number of Discs: 1
• UPC/EAN: 043396194755
• WAPI (Tower ID): 111463857
• Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• Release Date: December 4, 2007
• Average Customer Review:  (1 customer review)
• Tower.com Sales Rank: #371 in Movies (See Top 100 Movies Bestsellers)
• #36 in Comedy (See Top 100 Comedy Bestsellers)
• #36 in Comedy, General (See Top 100 Comedy, General Bestsellers)

•  [Superbad - Official Movie Site] 
  
•  [Superbad - Movie Trailer] 
  
•  [Superbad - Wikipedia Entry ] 
  

Total Film, 10/01/2007, p.54, 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] rapid-fire gag machine....SUPERBAD is a relentless rib-assault that sure-footedly blends gross-outs, flashbacks, fantasy asides and a full quiver of zingers."

Los Angeles Times, 08/17/2007, "Wide-eyed and sincere as it is hilariously, unrepentantly profane, the movie aims to express what it's like to stare down the barrel of your first foray into adulthood, and it's not afraid to be honest about it."

Sight and Sound, 11/01/2007, p.78, "[A] raucous party movie....The picture is dominated by three plucky young actors."

Uncut, 10/01/2007, p.128, 4 stars out of 5 -- "Think AMERICAN GRAFFITI meets AMERICAN PIE at the crossroads where John Hughes meets John Landis....It's embarrassingly funny..."

Empire, 10/01/2007, p.46, 4 stars out of 5 -- "Think of this best as a younger sibling to KNOCKED UP....The characters are just as well-drawn and the situations as oddly relatable."

New York Times, 08/17/2007, p.E1-E15, "[S]weetly absurd....[The] setups and camerawork serve the characters unobtrusively, as do the homey production design and costumes."

Rolling Stone, 08/23/2007, p.76, 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "SUPERBAD is superfun across the board....It helps that the fun doesn't stop. It helps even more that the pitch-perfect script doesn't step out of character for a joke."

USA Today, 08/17/2007, p.11D, 3 stars out of 4 -- "[A]bsurdly comic. Gross-out humor abounds....Side-splitting laughter, along with some powerful cringing, are likely to be audiences' dominant reactions."

Box Office, 09/01/2007, p.112, "It's funny, but there's something meaningful going on....[The film] has at its core a certain verisimilitude that is endearing -- even sweet."

Entertainment Weekly, 08/31/2007, p.110, "Apatow directs with an adult understanding of and affection for teen hormonal rhythms....SUPERBAD is cute if you like guys who aren't even remotely bad..." -- Grade: B

Theatrical Release: August 17, 2007

DVD Features:

Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
Subtitles - English, French - Optional
Subtitles - English - Closed Captioned
Additional Release Material:
Additional Unrated Footage
Audio Commentary
Behind the Scenes - The Making of SUPERBAD
Deleted and Extended Scenes
Featurettes - 1. LINE-O-RAMA
2. COP CAR CONFESSIONS - Ride along with Clark County's Finest
3. ORIGINAL TABLE READ 2002 - with Seth Rogan
4. PINEAPPLE EXPRESS - Exclusive First Look
Gag Reel
Interactive Features:
Menus - Featuring Seth's Doodles

Produced by Judd Apatow and co-written by Seth Rogen--both of 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN and KNOCKED UP fame--SUPERBAD is the story of two horny teenage geeks looking to lose their virginity before college. Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) are hoping to end high school on a high note, and when one of their crushes (Emma Hill) invites them to a graduation party, the boys are ecstatic. That is, until they become responsible for supplying the party with alcohol. They hurriedly concoct a scheme to use their friend Fogell's (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) horrendously fake ID, but trouble soon arises when Fogell becomes the victim of a liquor store robbery. The cops (Rogen and Bill Hader) show up, and the evening quickly disintegrates into a hilarious mess of misunderstandings, crackhead sing-alongs, and beer mixed with laundry detergent.

Hill is a riot as the wild-haired and foul-mouthed Seth, and Mintz-Plasse is great fun as the uber-geek Fogell. But Michael Cera (formerly of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT) steals the show as the sensitive and levelheaded Evan. His oddball line delivery and excellent comic timing make for some of the most bizarre but best moments of the film. The sexual humor can be pretty graphic at times, which is no doubt what earned the movie its R rating. Yet, despite gross-out jokes involving menstrual blood and penis drawings, SUPERBAD somehow manages to fly far above frat-boy, AMERICAN PIE-style humor. This is partly due to the comedic skill of the actors, but also because the characters--silly and absurd though they can be--are so well-written. Watching these bungling outcasts is a vivid reminder of the horrific lows and supreme highs of high school life, and their antics rather poignantly capture how age 18 can indeed be super bad, but also super good.

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