Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
76
(36 sources)
76
(36 sources)
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San Francisco Chronicle
For pure laughs, for the experience of just sitting in a chair and breaking up every minute or so, Superbad is 2007's most successful comedy. Read Full Review » -
100
New York Magazine
Might be the most provocative teen sex comedy ever made; it is certainly one of the most convulsively funny. Read Full Review » -
90
Newsweek
As a "Revenge of the Nerds" redux, Superbad isn't perfect. But it's super close. Read Full Review » -
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Village Voice
Superbad is duly ribald and often achingly funny, brewed from the now-familiar Apatow house blend of go-for-broke slapstick and instantly quotable, potty-mouthed dialogue. Read Full Review » -
90
Wall Street Journal
What's most memorable, most striking about Superbad is the canny evocation of male friendship in all its richness and complexity. Read Full Review » -
88
Rolling Stone
It helps that the fun doesn't stop. It helps even more that the pitch-perfect script doesn't step out of character for a joke. Read Full Review » -
88
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie is astonishingly foul-mouthed, but in a fluent, confident way where the point isn't the dirty words, but the flow and rhythm, and the deep, sad yearning they represent. Read Full Review » -
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
You don't have to be a teenager to appreciate the raunchy humor and the uninhibited overkill of Seth's porn-obsessed chatter, though it probably helps to be a guy. Read Full Review » -
80
Los Angeles Times
What with everyone so focused on the raunchiness, it comes as a complete surprise to find that Superbad is in fact a love story. Read Full Review » -
80
Film Threat
Easily one of the funniest comedies of the year and one you wouldn't mind seeing again and again. Read Full Review » -
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Entertainment Weekly
Superbad is cute if you like guys who aren't even remotely bad, in a coming-of-age tale so old-fashioned the girls might just as well be wearing bloomers. Read Full Review » -
75
Chicago Tribune
In this teen-boy universe, sex is everywhere and nowhere, it's oozing out of every pop culture pore and every other insane boast, yet the idea of figuring out how to talk to girls without turning into a yutz remains elusive. Read Full Review » -
75
ReelViews
What if Quentin Tarantino collaborated with John Hughes on a teen comedy? Superbad is a decent approximation of what the result might be. Read Full Review » -
75
TV Guide
It's mostly very crude, often very funny and a little bit smarter than you might otherwise think. Read Full Review » -
75
New York Post
Super-vulgar, ridiculously sophomoric, horribly nasty and so hilarious you'll probably squirt Diet Coke out of your nose within the first 20 minutes. Read Full Review » -
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Miami Herald
Superbad never forgets the lesson one learns when looking back on one's awkward youth: Cool isn't just where society dictates; it is also where you find it. Read Full Review » -
75
New York Daily News
There is a hint of sentimentality among the pals at the end, but not enough to offset the film's harmless combination of camaraderie and wished-for - oh, how they wish for it - debauchery. Read Full Review » -
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USA Today
Side-splitting laughter, along with some powerful cringing, are likely to be audiences' dominant reactions. Read Full Review » -
70
Salon.com
Its pleasures and charms lie in its very crudeness, in the way the characters' thoughts begin in their d---s and spill out of their mouths, completely bypassing their brains. Read Full Review » -
70
The Hollywood Reporter
Some of the patter is funny, but the movie lacks the clever plot developments and the character nuances of a classic like "American Graffiti." And it's missing the belly laughs of earlier raunchfests "American Pie" and "There's Something About Mary." Read Full Review » -
70
Variety
The bawdy jokes score big points, but it's the rueful acknowledgement of adolescent embarrassment and humiliation that most distinguishes Superbad, another ultra-raunchy and commercial sex comedy from the Judd Apatow laugh factory. Read Full Review » -
70
Chicago Reader
The movie loses credibility with the arrival of Rogen and Bill Hader as two uniformed patrolmen who are drunker and crazier than any high schooler could ever get, but the variety of complications thrown at the three pubescent heroes raises this a cut above most raunchy comedies. Read Full Review » -
70
The New York Times
Horny is as horny does in the sweetly absurd high school comedy Superbad. Read Full Review » -
70
Washington Post
Christopher Mintz-Plasse steals the movie in his screen debut as a nerd di tutti nerds, a kid whose fake I.D. reads "McLovin." Read Full Review » -
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Not super, but not bad, the teen comedy, Superbad, is another comic dance across the hormonal minefield of late high school. Read Full Review » -
60
Slate
As lurching, awkward, and dirty-minded as the three horny man-boys at its center--but not, in the end, quite as funny or endearing. Read Full Review » -
50
Boston Globe
As films about the young and the horny go, I preferred the smarter approach director Jeffrey Blitz takes in "Rocket Science." Read Full Review » -
50
Charlotte Observer
Superbad simply isn't. It isn't super, as it intersperses crudely funny gags with an equal number of dry spots. It isn't ever truly bad, because even the lame segments pass quickly. Read Full Review » -
50
Time
To find that valuable truth, you have to dig through an avalanche of d--- jokes and strenuous slapstick. Read Full Review »
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