Superbad (2007)
- If you look closely during the crowded sequence in the second act of Superbad, the original author of the source material makes a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo.
- The studio almost pulled funding for Superbad midway through the shoot, convinced that the general audience wouldn't connect with the highly unconventional tone.
Superbad is a 2007 American coming-of-age comedy directed by Greg Mottola, produced by Judd Apatow, and written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who began writing the screenplay when they were 13. Jonah Hill and Michael Cera star as Seth and Evan, two inseparable high school seniors who attempt to buy alcohol for a party being thrown by their crushes, hoping to lose their virginity before graduation separates them for college. Their quest, which involves a fake ID belonging to their friend Fogell β who has adopted the single-name alias McLovin, played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse β spirals into a night of escalating misadventures involving corrupt cops, a bloody period incident, and a house party gone wrong.
Superbad reinvented the teen sex comedy by grounding its raunchy humor in genuine emotional truth β beneath the profanity and sexual desperation was a sincere story about the fear of losing your best friend to adulthood. Jonah Hill and Michael Cera's contrasting energies β Hill's aggressive, motor-mouthed anxiety against Cera's shy, mumbling awkwardness β created one of the great comedy duos of the 2000s. The McLovin subplot, featuring Bill Hader and Seth Rogen as irresponsible patrol officers, became the film's most quotable element.
Superbad earned $170 million worldwide on a $20 million budget.
