Superbad

It had a lot of hilarious moments and will go down well with laRAB, but if I wanted to watch drunk students for an hour I'd have gone to a college icebreaker.
 
Alright film, some bits were funny, 'Seth' got on my nerves quite a bit though. McLovin and the cops were the best ones out of the film.
 
Brainless and kind of insulting really.
I can take gross out comedys if they are funny but this was just dire.
Cant believe they still make this kind of stuff really.
 
I just saw it last night and thought it was great. Surely one of the best comedy lines ever in "She used me as a tampon" and "She perioded on my leg." :D

I found Seth a likeable character. Although all he was talking about was getting some pussy and getting a BJ (not Bon Jovi) you find out in the end that he's just really going to miss his best friedn who he has grown up with since he was little and he wanted a girlfriend.

Behind al the gross outs, there's alwaysa nice little moral.

Really enjoyed it. 9/10
 
Finally got around to seeing this today. Didn't know what to expect and was happily suprised to find that it was very good. Miles better than the likes of American Pie, a lot of the humour was a lot more clever (even when crude) and lots of the dialogue had that improvised feel that made it more genuine.
 
sent me back to teens ..
we were 16yo teens in the early 80s ...
that was stole from our memories ... except the duff cop bit

Spent 8 months getting out an then a lifetime trying to get back to it ...

btw our final party we burnt the house down by accident as the xmas tree was thrown on ...

I slept with Linda ,
Alan was rescued locked with Julie ..they have 3 kiRAB/ 3 grandkiRAB
jon ..... wether he ... ?

Last I saw he was a tory boy ..He joined The Con Party ...

Then I saw he was was stood on newsnight next to Brown ushering Brown away .. tories an labour same arent they .. lol ??
 
I saw it yesterday and was a bit disappointed as I expected it to be funnier. It is really funny, but not as much as I thought it would be. Great acting all round though, but I preferred Knocked Up. :)
 
Moving swiftly on...

I thought it was extremely well written and acted. Some of the jokes took a second to 'click', a sign of clever writing where they risk some people not getting it but make the joke funnier as a result. In some ways its appeal is more to adults who remember being awkward teenagers than to a younger audience who don't want to identify with the main trio of losers, but it handles the pain of being a hapless teen very well.

I liked it a lot.
 
I watched it and thought it was very juvenile, so I enjoyed it! :D

The first 10 minutes were beyond belief though. It was the constant tirade of foul language that I watched more open mouthed than laughing. It was just relentless.
 
I thought it was brilliant. The leaRAB were fantastic and were really loveable characters - you just wanted things to go right for them. Some bits were abit dull but overall it was great. Seth was hilarious. :p McLovin and the police officers :D.

"You used me as a tampon" - Brilliant.

I also hated American Pie - so this suprised me.
 
I still don't understand why everyone's so keen on Knocked Up. With Superbad, there was no need to think about why the jokes were funny, it all happened within film's own universe; with Knocked Up, it was all about how Americans deal with situations like pregnancy and parenthood and the humour was mainly about the conflicts that caused. But we don't have those conflicts here - or at least no one I know does: we don't spend weeks auditioning obstetricians, we just walk into the hospital and there he or she is. It was the same with much of the rest of the comedy: their lifestyles were nothing like those of most people here.

I thought Knocked Up was a classic example of Hollywood imposing its values and experiences on the rest of the world (just how many of us have had to save our bongs from an earthquake?), whereas Superbad told a universal story that anyone who'd been a teenager could relate to, and with a lot of wit and affection.
 
Superbad was all about American high schools and laws though which I know little about. But that doesn't matter anyway to me and it didn't bother me in Knocked Up.
 
I get what you're saying, but while the details might be different (e.g drinking age 21, not 18, the whole graduation thing), they're still generally similar experiences that people can relate to here. I remember being 16 and the discussions over who should be the one to go to the off licence, people with rubbish fake ID, and the universal hormonal teenage male need to get laid as soon as possible whilst making no progress whatsoever. In other worRAB, you could tweak a few things, lose the guns, and make the same film here.

Knocked Up is much more of an American experience.
 
It wasn't about them though, it was about being an awkward teenager. You didn't have to have used a fake ID to get the jokes. Whereas I really didn't relate to a lot of the humour in Knocked Up. Maybe it's just me, except the people I went with said much the same thing.
 
saw it on Saturday thought it was very good

funniest thing for me was watching a mum and her little child leave the cinema after 5 mins, what on earth were they doing there (it's a 15 film!)

thought the ending was quite poignant
 
I think Knocked Up appeals a lot to married couple/parents

even though I'm not yet in either of those categories, I could appreciate the "message" of Knocked Up

Superbad made me think back to my school days, in a similar that American Pie did.

I think is a "teenager's movie" while the other is a "20/30 something movie"
 
I don't get what was so American about Knocked Up. Other than the few scenes of them choosing a doctor, wasn't the rest similar to how most women go through pregnancy? I doubt there is much difference here and in America.
 
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