Superbad Critic Reviews

As films about the young and the horny go, I preferred the smarter approach director Jeffrey Blitz takes in "Rocket Science."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

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 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

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

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

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

As lurching, awkward, and dirty-minded as the three horny man-boys at its center--but not, in the end, quite as funny or endearing.Read the full review

Some of the patter is funny, but the movie lacks the clever plot developments and the character nuances of a classic like "American Graffiti." And it's missing the belly laughs of earlier raunchfests "American Pie" and "There's Something About Mary."Read the full review