Critic Reviews
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100
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
For pure laughs, for the experience of just sitting in a chair and breaking up every minute or so, Superbad is 2007's most successful comedy.
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90
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Wall Street Journal
What's most memorable, most striking about Superbad is the canny evocation of male friendship in all its richness and complexity.
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88
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The movie is astonishingly foul-mouthed, but in a fluent, confident way where the point isn't the dirty words, but the flow and rhythm, and the deep, sad yearning they represent.
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88
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
It helps that the fun doesn't stop. It helps even more that the pitch-perfect script doesn't step out of character for a joke.
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80
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Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
What with everyone so focused on the raunchiness, it comes as a complete surprise to find that Superbad is in fact a love story.
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75
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Superbad is cute if you like guys who aren't even remotely bad, in a coming-of-age tale so old-fashioned the girls might just as well be wearing bloomers.
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75
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USA Today Claudia Puig
Side-splitting laughter, along with some powerful cringing, are likely to be audiences' dominant reactions.
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75
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Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Intermittently hilarious if also interminable.
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75
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New York Daily News Jack Mathews
There is a hint of sentimentality among the pals at the end, but not enough to offset the film's harmless combination of camaraderie and wished-for - oh, how they wish for it - debauchery.
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75
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Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
In this teen-boy universe, sex is everywhere and nowhere, it's oozing out of every pop culture pore and every other insane boast, yet the idea of figuring out how to talk to girls without turning into a yutz remains elusive.
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70
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The Hollywood Reporter
Some of the patter is funny, but the movie lacks the clever plot developments and the character nuances of a classic like "American Graffiti." And it's missing the belly laughs of earlier raunchfests "American Pie" and "There's Something About Mary."
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