Superbad (2007)
#59 in my 2007 movie challenge was Superbad. I thought it was pretty good. Funny, raunchy, and real, if you’re a teen boy, that is. The female characters, though, were two dimensional and hardly complicated enough to compete with the three protagonists. There was a drunk, horny, intimidating one. There was a nice, sober, intimidatingly pretty one. There was a drunk, sexy, scarily menstruating one. One had a large chest. And one wore a thong.
As a thinking woman, I feel I should have disliked this movie. Instead, I found the boys geekily charming, especially Michael Cera and newcomer Christopher Mintz-Plasse. I only wish the creators had gone the extra mile to make the objects of their affections more realistic.
September 15th, 2007 at 8:46 am
your comments on the two dimensional females were exactly how i felt about ‘knocked up’ as well. not even the slightest chance of me going to see this, considering it’s even more juvenile focus. clearly judd apatow and his friends are not for me.
November 6th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
In this week’s ENtertainment Weekly movie preview, it says Diablo Cody (formerly of MN) has written a girl-focused answer to Superbad, and I’m intrigued to see if it makes it to screen. I’m willing to give both movies a pass because they do such a good job of ripping away the male posturing, but the female characters in Apatow land, apart from Lindsay in Freaks and Geeks, are the weak point.