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Superbad (2007) DVD Review
Superbad (2007) DVD Credits:
Superbad (2007) Directed by:
Greg Mottola
Superbad (2007) Written by:
Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
Superbad (2007) Cast:
Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Bill Hader
Superbad (2007) Released by:
Not available at this time
Region:
1
Superbad (2007) DVD Release Date:
4th December 2007
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Superbad (2007) Synopsis:

"Superbad" revolves around two co-dependent high school seniors (Hill and Cera) who set out to score alcohol for a party, believing that girls will then hook up with them and they will be ready for college. But as the night grows more chaotic, overcoming their separation anxiety becomes a greater challenge than getting the girls.

Superbad (2007) DVD Review:

Seth Rogen is a long-time collaborator with producer Judd Apatow, who has cast him in everything he has directed and now has begun a behind-the-scenes collaboration with the actor as well. After the success of Knocked Up, after Apatow’s many fights to cast Rogen, the young actor became a huge success, allowing him and his childhood friend Evan Goldberg to finally get their script made. Superbad is a teen comedy, but fortunately Rogen’s time with Apatow has taught him something, because as vulgar and explicit as the dialogue is in the film there is a sensitivity and honesty in it as well.

In Superbad teens are portrayed as teens, and often that is a disturbing and uncomfortable sight to witness. What makes the film so realistic, aside from the friendship between seniors Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera), is that it is as uncomfortable as high school really is. The two guys nearly always end up saying or doing the wrong thing, but just like real life, especially when they are interacting with girls.

Taking place essentially all in one day and evening, Superbad follows these two friends and their awkward friend Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) in an attempt to get alcohol for a party in order to hook up with girls they are interested in. Fogell has a fake I.D. but when his transaction is interrupted by a hold-up he ends up spending the evening with two absurdly irresponsible police officers.

Just as Alfred Hitchcock had a hang-up about the police, often portraying them as bumbling fools, Rogen and Goldberg seem to have similar if not more scathing tendencies. In their next film, Pinapple Express, two stoners are able to escape an absurd police woman with the help of a few slushies, and in Superbad the two police officers (one played by Rogen and the other by Saturday Night Live’s Bill Hader) spend the evening breaking the law more than enforcing it. Meanwhile Evan and Seth are on their own trying to find alcohol, and the irony is that they don’t even need the one thing they think they must bring in order to get the girl.

The most remarkable of the special features is the one that will be irrelevant in less than a year, and that is the exclusive first look of Pinapple Express. It is a scene taken directly from the film, and one that will wisely have fans in anyone who is already a fan of Superbad. The other special features are almost as impressive, with a number of hilarious deleted scenes. The film itself is unrated and extended, but the additional footage is actually rather minimal, and a lot of the extra footage on the DVD is just of alternate takes with different versions of essentially the same scenes. This can be funny at times, but the scenes with Hader and Rogen drag on for much longer than necessary for the DVD.

The featurettes include a strange documentation of an animal guy, like you would see on late-night television with spiders and snakes, who comes to set for Jonah Hill. There is also a making-of featurette and footage from a 2002 table read of the film with Rogen reading the part of Seth. The footage piles up, and it is impressive, although it is more impressive how much of what they wanted to put in the film actually made it in the theatrical cut. Some of these features are exclusive to the two-disc edition, but the single disc makes certain the most important features are included.

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Superbad (2007) DVD review written by: Ryan Izay

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