Superbad Critic Reviews

For pure laughs, for the experience of just sitting in a chair and breaking up every minute or so, Superbad is 2007's most successful comedy.Read the full review

What's most memorable, most striking about Superbad is the canny evocation of male friendship in all its richness and complexity.Read the full review

The movie is astonishingly foul-mouthed, but in a fluent, confident way where the point isn't the dirty words, but the flow and rhythm, and the deep, sad yearning they represent.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

A funny, boozy, ramshackle party.Read the full review

What with everyone so focused on the raunchiness, it comes as a complete surprise to find that Superbad is in fact a love story.Read the full review

Side-splitting laughter, along with some powerful cringing, are likely to be audiences' dominant reactions.Read the full review

Superbad is cute if you like guys who aren't even remotely bad, in a coming-of-age tale so old-fashioned the girls might just as well be wearing bloomers.Read the full review

What if Quentin Tarantino collaborated with John Hughes on a teen comedy? Superbad is a decent approximation of what the result might be.Read the full review