*I also have to mention:
- the writers: Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg - and as the names of the lead characters suggest, the story is loosely based on their experience;
- and producer: Judd Apatow - because you definitely see his touch in the final product
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This one is an "oldie" (damn, time flies!) but I have to get it off my chest. If I weren't too sure about this movie I would try to point off that this is kind of my quilty pleasure, something like if you caught me listening to Rihanna or Katy Perry (not that I do!) - BUT NO! I think this is one of the greatest comedies ever, The Big Lebowski of our decade!
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The hilarious fake ID scene
The story is about two inseparable high school seniors - Seth and Evan, played by Jonah Hill and Michael Cera. It features all the main anxieties of that stage of life - trying to stand up for yourself, moving away for college and leaving your friends behind, having uncertain future ... but the top of the priorities is to finally get laid to get the guts to look future fellow students in the eye. Then all of the other stuff will sort of fall into place.
There are three weeks of school left and that means not much more time to mingle. And being unpopular is one more disadvantage. All they seem to have left is one party that would determine their whole summer. That was the plan:
"She's gonna be at the party, and she's gonna be drunk, and she likes me at least a little, enough to get with me. At the very least I'll make out with her, two weeks hand job, month blow job, whatever whatever. And then, I make her my girlfriend. And I've got like two solid months of sex. By the time college rolls around I'll be like the Iron Chef of pounding vaj."
What it is - an honest comedy with many hilarious twists and turns. The air seems to be electrified by Seth's hysterical attempts to make the plan work. From when we meet our the characters it's all about getting to that party and bringing booze for everyone while being underage. And every minute delivers! It features one of the best cop duo in the movie history (Bill Hader and Seth Rogen), amazing performance of Joe Lo Truglio as the creepy "Francis the driver", Emma Stone's first performance in a movie and last but not least - the geeky star of the show Fogell aka McLovin' (Christopher Mintz-Plasse).
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Would you believe this is a 25 year-old Hawaiian organ donor, named McLovin? (Maybe if you were a stressed out saleswoman who has a veterinary exam the next day ...)
The conversations and the situations are so well thought and the script is just bombastic - it doesn't hold back! There are talks about boobs, blowjobs, erections, semen, even the lube that are stretching from supermarket to school, from telephone to face-to-face conversation, from one lecture to another ... I think this movie as a whole is a testament of what "shitload of shit" you have to do as a teenager to fit in. While it is probably also the time of your life.
Everytime I put the DVD on (yeah, I totally bought the DVD!) and the 60s/70s funk starts to play my face turns into one big smile ... and then I laugh my ass off while remembering some of that bittersweet feelings of leaving high school.
my rating: 10/10*
*this is classic!
Another one of my fauvorite scenes from the movie:
What do you think about Superbad? Is the language too vulgar?
