Superbad (DVD)

My boyfriend and I can rarely agree on a film and our visit to Blockbuster at the weekend was no different. He chose Superbad, an American comedy which to me looked like an attempt at an American Pie or Road Trip kind of film. I wasn't exactly excited by the prospect of watching it but decided I'd humour him and give it a go... The Plot Superbad follows three American teenagers who are just about to graduate from high school and move onto college. The only problem is that they're still virgins, and the prospect of going to college with the V symbol displayed around their necks isn't even worth entertaining. When Jules, one of the hottest ...

'Superbad' isn't super bad-far from it, in fact it's pretty good, and even though it gets a little superslow and supersoso half-way through, it picks up just enough to deliver a fresh and needed comedy in what has been a very stale genre for a long time now. It's from the makers of the quirky, '40-year-old-Virgin' and the follow-up 'Knocked up', which I haven't seen the latter of the two and hear only good things about that one. You just can't get enough original film these days and if Knocked Up is anything like Superbad then ill be watching it. From its sharp and snappy 'Clerks' style dialogue opening and the rapid introduction to its equally funny and ...

I was always a fan of the American Pie films and although I know they are mainly targeted towards a teen audience but being young I do love a funny film and Superbad provides the laughs. As state before, you won’t like this if you’re past your teen years or hate immature high school films but if you’re younger and liked the American Pie films this will be right up your street. The films I had heard about through my friend, I had seen the posters on buses but wasn’t really sure what it was about. My friend recommended it to me and so I went to the Apple site to watch the trailer and it looked quite funny, not amazing but like it could be ok so I decided to take the risk ...