Superbad

If you love American comedies nowadays then you live in the Apatow world, the guy behind "the 40 years old virgin", "knocked up", or "forgetting sarah marshall", with a little help of his friends, the likes of Seth Rogen, Adam Sandler, Micheal Cena, he know makes or produces, or supervises these blockbusters with an attention to detail, and also a respect to the audience smarts and the rules of the genres, just as he did with "SuperBad" in 2007.

Evan (Michael Cera) and Seth (Jonah Hill) are best friends and are also in their senior year in highschool, like all the teens in their age, they like adult movies, booze, video games, and girls.... a little bit too much, but their success with the other sex is limited to say the least, because of their geekish looks and shyness, but this is about to change because Jules (Emma Stone) a girl Seth has been creaming over since forever asks him to be in charge of the booze details of her party, using the gorged ID of their friend Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse).

This assignment is harder then what they thought, because they cross the paths of two crazy police officers (Bill Hader and Seth Rogen), a crazy driver, an alcoholic dude, the night will be long for the three of them, and because they are two weeks from graduation, their fear of the upcoming separation adds a lot of tension to their quest to take the booze where it belongs.

The Apatow formula is easy to understand but very hard to replicate, it's beyond the sterotype of "the geek meets the fly girl", this is an update on the Woody Allen formula, a strong plot with well drawn characters, and then the comedic artifacts enhance the final work, Seth and Evan are in the tradition of the comedic duos, their loyalty to each other carries the movie, their questo to get this booze to the party is involving for the audience, this level of craft is not what you'd expect in a movie made for the widest audience.

We all loved "American Pie" when it came out, but it was a guilty pleasure, but this is the kind of teen comedy you won't be ashamed to like, because it's brilliant and involving, indeed there are minor flaws here and there, some details we could live without, but if you like comedy, it's as good as it gets, and in these hard times you can't possibly spare a chance of a good laugh, life is too short for missing it's funny part.