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Like most one night present action films, Superbad sets itself up for needing some real resolution and — since it's already running 110 — it hurries it through in three minutes, sucking a lot of the interesting possibilities from what it previously established.

Not exact matches

Nick Braun (Prom, TV's Poor Paul), Alison Brie (Scream 4, TV's Community), Brandon T. Jackson (Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, Tropic Thunder), Christopher Mintz - Plasse (Fright Night, Superbad) and Jay Pharoah (TV's Saturday Night Live, Lola Versus) are set to co-star in the film.

Also screened: Sadako Vs. Kayako (Grade: B --RRB-, an entertaining, teen - friendly marriage of the The Ring and The Grudge mythologies that (thank God) has a sense of humor about itself, even though its final confrontation is less than satisfying; Dearest Sister (Grade: C +), a poetic (and rather slow) meditation on class conflict couched in a ghost story from Laotian director Mattie Do; and Down Under (Grade: B --RRB-, a Superbad - style profane coming - of - age comedy set against the backdrop of the Cronulla race riots that took place in Sydney, Australia in Christmas 2005.

Superbad (R for profanity, sexuality, alcohol and drug use, a violent image, and pervasive crude content) Raunchy, coming - of - age comedy about a couple of inseparable, nerdy high school seniors (Jonah Hill and Michael Cera) who plan the perfect party in order to end their interminable losing streak and finally get the girls of their dreams before they set off in the Fall to different colleges.

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After Superbad and several episodes of Undeclared, director Greg Mottola seems dead set on using this growing - up - is - hard - to - do parable to cement his reputation as the screen's bard of postadolescent angst.

Superbad consequently sets itself apart through the quality and quantity of its manhood - themed humor.

If these scenes set themselves a lower bar than the unassumingly deft character work of the main story, with its lively attention to adolescent anxieties, «Superbad» at its best goes right through knockabout to land in deliciously obscene places — notably a staggering succession of doodles in which tumescent cocks take on various extraordinary guises.

However, Jonah Hill has rejected the playbook that was pre-written for him after Superbad and built a career unlike any actor Hollywood has ever seen by turning down typecast roles and specifically using key roles to springboard him to wider possibilities — thus setting him up as a serious dramatic actor, a major creative force, and an unexpected streetwear ambassador.

In the spirit of such classics as AMERICAN PIE, THE SURE THING and SUPERBAD, this wild romp follows Ian, Lance and their third musketeer, the spunky and gorgeous tomboy, FELICIA (Amanda Crew), as they set out in Ian's older brother's beloved ’69 GTO.

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The film, though apparently set in the present day, lacks the plugged - in vibrancy of recent teen films such as «Superbad» or the underrated «The Girl Next Door,» leaving «I Love You, Beth Cooper» feeling more like a sentimental look back than a more lively expression of contemporary youth.

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Imagine taking Superbad and setting it in tough, urban Los Angeles, and you begin to have an idea of what Dope is like, but it also stands on its own merits.