Movie Review- Superbad

I did an earlier post about this film. The subject was how different the regular and R-rated trailers made the movie look. When I first saw the regular trailer I though the movie looked bad. Then I saw the R rated version on the Internet and the movie looked a lot funnier. Now I know why, because 95% of the funniness in the movie couldn't be shown in a regular trailer.

Superbad was one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long while. If you thought Knocked Up was raunchy then you ain't seen nothing yet. Superbad was really raunchy, it probably wins or comes close to #1 in a contest to fit the most swear words in a movie.

It was similar to Knocked Up but a more juvenile sense of humour. It took me a while to get interested but the high school types around me seemed to love it. There were a few segments that were really, really funny. It was also one of those movies where you miss parts because people are still laughing at the previous stuff.

I will say I though some of the jokes went a little too far. I would imagine some of the women in the audience were uncomfortable with some of the jokes and I wasn't crazy about the gay jokes either.

This will be playing at Western Film in a month or so.

What a difference the trailer can make -Superbad.

Superbad is a teen comedy coming out in August. I've seen the first PG trailer in theatres and thought it looked bad and had absolutely no interest in it. Today I watched the restricted trailer which does a much better job of promoting the film. One gets a much better idea what the film is actually about. One unusual thing, most times the trailer for adults is cleaned up by editing out the naughty bits. For the PG trailer they must have shot the same scenes with cleaner dialogue.

You may notice the beginning of the trailer has a MPAA rating notice in red, noting it's a restricted trailer. Most trailers have it in green marking a PG or G version. These are called Red Band and Green Band trailers. In the states they have to show the band in front of each trailer. Since we have a different ratings system we usually cut them off here.

Here's the PG trailer which sucks.




Here's the R trailer (coarse language) - this one is way funnier and I may actually go see the movie.



Another place in case youtube pulls it.

http://www.tribute.ca/features/superbad/