If the horrors of being a teenage boy were appreciated as much as the horrors of being a teenage girl. But too often, girls' plight is portrayed with earnestness and sensitivity, while the boys' is played for laughs. This film is just more of the same.

Michael Cera!

Michael Cera!

I curse the cancellation of "Arrested Development".

That is all.

And to the previous poster's point, I read another review that goes into some detail about the mishaps that befall at least one of the girls in the movie, so there is some of that. I thought "Mean Girls" captured some of the female high school experience, although I can only speak to its tangential points, since I was most assuredly *not* one of the Beautiful People. Actually, so did "Never Been Kissed" and in some ways "10 Things I Hate About You" in the way they handled the happy dorks, the desperate-to-not-be-dorks-dorks, the sensitive literature nerds, and the Angry Grrrls.

Do you think young guys are going to take their date (let alone go with their friends) to a movie that "sensitively" explores male insecurity? It would instantly be a "chick flick" at that point, and one that would make most young men uncomfortable. The humor allows both sexes to look at guys and "get" them, it's not a bad thing.

The closest thing I remember to a popular movie (and it was quite a while ago) that explored relationships between teenage boys was "Stand By Me", a Stephen King story. It still had to include a dead body and a mass vomit scene to be able to get the movie to be the kind of thing that had cross appeal.

Humor is not a bad way to look at serious subjects.

are always and only about heterosexuals. Gay kids--not to mention feelings--simply don't exist, except as one-joke side-character stereotypes. And so I cannot relate.

None of these teenage-romp movies ever reflected or illuminated my high-school years in the least.

And so I am dead bored. Same ol same ol.

I share your sentiments about Michael Cera and Arrested Development. I might have to go to this movie just to see him. But UGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!! this movie looks terrible. Saw the preview at The Simpsons Movie (which was only so-so, itself). I see a movie studio conference: "Okay guys, we got all that money out of American Pie. And then Napoleon Dynamite. We've got to put them together, somehow...somehow...I've got it! We'll make millions. Again! And make sure to film plenty of mildly raunchy stuff that will have to be cut, so we can released a second, unrated version after the initial DVD release has played out."

Personally, I thought Mean Girls was terrible, and only found a few good jokes in 10 Things I Hate About You (Juila Stiles being sent from the room for disrupting the class, even though she hadn't done anything). For me, the only teen movie that captured high school life correctly was Heathers.

I'm looking forward to seeing the movie even though my teenage years are a very dim memory indeed. The thing that's bothered me in the past two or three weeks, though, is that I've seen Jonah Hill interviewed on four or five talk shows about the movie as if he's the only star. But from Arrested Dev. alone, as well as the preview clips they run, Michael Cera is one fine young actor, and should be getting a little attention. why have the producers chosen to keep him out of the limelight altogether and have the barely interesting Hill do all the neat PR stuff? I'm just sayin', as everyone now keeps saying....

I understand in Superbad there is some fairly prominent subtext that one of the main characters might be gay. This may be a far cry from what you would like to see, Anonymous, but you may be hasty in throwing this movie on the pile of other teen sex comedies where everybody is 100% straight.

I Just went to see this movie with a 13 year old boy. He took out his cell phone and started playing downloaded games in the dark after the first 20 minutes. The film was crude in a lame and embarrassing way. And just not funny (there was very little laughter in the theater by victims of any age. But when people did laugh they seemed to be by guys over 40) I made a study of audience reaction in my desparate attempt to pass the time while I sacrificed myself for my young friend who so wanted to see this movie.

Afterwards I asked my young friend what did he think of the movie?..."ugh...creepy we should have left" Now he tells me.

Not only is the movie embarassing and bad it is also uneccessarily ugly to look at and to watch. So there is no sensory escape or distraction. You have to have been a real looser dweeb as a teenager to "see" your adolescence in this movie.

Fairly prominent subtext you say? Wow. Like, if I'm desperate for gay issues to be addressed, I can cherish this, while the straights in the audience likely remain oblivious (and I can also cherish my superiority for "getting it")? That gay themes will be co-opted into a shallow teen picture doesn't make it a better picture any more than addressing drug abuse tuned Diff'rent Strokes into quality television.

Why? In the past few days I heard innumerable reports of theaters going Calvinist on anyone who buys a ticket - multiple checking of ID's, questioning whether the adults with the children are their parents, acting like the customer is a criminal.

I hope people boycott this film. Honestly I do. Otherwise 19 year old Emo Slacker Ticket Dood or Qwanishaa the Ticket Ripper should get punched in the face. Hard.

Superbad is a silly, slightly raunchy look at one day in the life of high school kids. It doesn't aspire to mirror reality, nor should it. It's just a late-summer comedy written by two guys who came up with the idea for the movie when they were 13. If you don't want to see it, don't. But please, just lighten up.