Superbad Critic Reviews

Christopher Mintz-Plasse steals the movie in his screen debut as a nerd di tutti nerds, a kid whose fake I.D. reads "McLovin."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

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

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

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

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

Horny is as horny does in the sweetly absurd high school comedy Superbad.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