Superbad is a surprisingly sentimental story of two socially inept friends who live in each other’s back pockets but must now contemplate the different paths their futures must take.
Accepted into different colleges, pals Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) try to ignore their impending separation by getting trashed at a party hosted by beautiful classmate Jules (Emma Stone).
In order to impress the girls, they boldly promise to provide the alcohol for the party, with a little help from geeky sidekick Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), who has managed to procure a fake ID card.
Seth and Evan venture out into the night, hoping to find a liquor store that will accept Fogell as an upstanding 25-year-old from Hawaii called McLovin.
Fogell’s nervous attempt to buy a trolley full of booze ends in disaster.
Superbad is a fitfully amusing cautionary tale that ricochets at full pelt between gross-out humour and touching self-reflection.
