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John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 14 2007 08:54 PM

Hilarious. Absolutely nails it.

Nymr83 Dec 14 2007 09:04 PM

it was ok but not great. its not in the same league as "knocked up."

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 14 2007 09:19 PM

I dunno about that, and I liked knocked up a lot too.

OlerudOwned Dec 15 2007 01:50 PM

Finally saw it yesterday and it was just perfect.

A Boy Named Seo Dec 15 2007 02:28 PM

Yeah, I completely dug this movie. Great usage of "vag" throughout.

soupcan Dec 16 2007 08:40 PM

"She wants the 'P' in the 'V'!" Saw it Friday night - liked it. A lot.

Vic Sage Dec 17 2007 08:25 AM

i guess i'm getting old. I got about 1/2 way thru and had to turn it off. I liked KNOCKED UP alot more. maybe i was just too tired.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 17 2007 08:39 AM

I'm disappointed that esteemed cpf critic Norrid Radd likes so little about this guy's flix. I find these movies generally hard to take at first -- they come off like they're all about laughs through vulgarity -- but by the end they've demonstrated real heart and humanity as well. This movie was in some ways like "Fast Times" in the way it revealed how awkward horny and confused high school kids are when it comes to sexuality.

Vic Sage Dec 17 2007 12:37 PM

oh, i get what it was trying to do. And i'm sure if i had stuck with it, it would've paid off to some degree. but unlike FAST TIMES, i just found the characters in SUPERBAD (while truthful in alot of ways) just so repellant, i didn't want to spend another conscious moment with them. You have shown a higher tolerance for such characters over the years, so this probably wasn't a big deal to you. But i could not tolerate the company of that fat, brillo-haired, mono-maniacal walking dildo for another second

metirish Dec 22 2007 09:46 PM

Watched this tonight, liked it a lot and pretty much laughed throughout the whole movie and had several flash back moments.

metirish Dec 27 2007 04:34 AM

Watched this again Xmas night and liked it even more on second viewing. "I'll be the Iron Chef of pounding vag"

Farmer Ted Feb 10 2008 08:31 PM

Finally saw it last night On Demand. "Yeah, looks like a division sign." You can't make this shit up, really. Great music, too.

Frayed Knot Feb 18 2008 08:16 PM

Vic Sage wrote: i guess i'm getting old. I got about 1/2 way thru and had to turn it off. Lunchbucket wrote: I find these movies generally hard to take at first -- they come off like they're all about laughs through vulgarity -- but by the end they've demonstrated real heart and humanity as well I finally got around to this one ... and I find myself agreeing with both of the above. I was ready to his 'Eject' part way into it, but (after taking a break) stuck to it and it did get better as it went on. I'm not as ga-ga as most of y'all but it did make a nice rally from the mid-point on - and the hottie-geek matchups weren't as tough to buy as the one in 'Knocked Up'.

Edgy MD Mar 21 2009 01:54 PM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Mar 23 2009 12:17 PM

The thing about the huge asshole brillo protagonist is that you slowly --- yeah, too slowly perhaps --- see how much his bullshit is a façade covering up teenage self-loathing, and what kind of friend his buddy must be to see through that and continue to tolerate him. There's co-dependence there, but something more. And it gives a male version of what's going on in Ghost World --- two teenagers who've been constant companions since childhood coming painfully to terms with realizing that they'll have to find adult indentities on their own. Yeah, his constant degrading sex talk and abuse of his only friends is repellant, but I can't look back at my teenage friends and say that I didn't know that guy. A director has to be real careful to direct a movie like this --- but defensible it is. They portray the teenage sex obsession/awkwardness hand-in-hand with the reckless booziness, but make more particularly clear than most other movies how the latter is used explicitly to anaestsize kids through the former, and hints at just how tragic that is. My main problem was the cops. They were funny as heck, but so surreal that they seemed to be out of a different movie.

themetfairy Mar 21 2009 02:13 PM

I saw it on cable recently. I thought it was good, but not great. And I agree with Edgy that it did a good job of portraying the awkwardness of teenage sex. Although, like most things, it's better in 30 seconds as done by bunnies.

Fman99 Mar 23 2009 12:05 PM

themetfairy wrote: I saw it on cable recently. I thought it was good, but not great. And I agree with Edgy that it did a good job of portraying the awkwardness of teenage sex. Although, like most things, it's better in 30 seconds as done by bunnies. Oh I just lost 15 minutes of my life with those damn bunnies. They rule.

Centerfield Mar 31 2009 11:15 AM

Those bunnies are awesome. I thought the beginning was unbearable. The middle and end was much better, and makes it a worthwhile venture. Seth Rogen is much better when he is not the star of the movie, and I thought the cops/McLovin parts were the best. Jules = cute.

Fman99 Jun 15 2009 10:26 PM

Watched this tonight on my Zune while on a 3 hour layover in an airport. It had some funny moments but large parts of it were boring to me. I gave it a 6.