Supergood?

Agent 99 and I saw Superbad which opened last Friday, this past weekend. Apart from feeling old from all the teenyboppers packing the auditorium, we enjoyed this high school romp. While there’s a lot of trash-talking and crudeness (especially from Jonah Hill’s character Seth), there is actually a heartfelt story about a close friendship being tested. Okay okay, it’s not as deep as I unintentionally made it sound there. While on the topic of Judd Apatow productions, I have been Netflixing Freaks and Geeks and would like to put in a plug for this show which NBC cruelly cancelled in the 1999-2000 season. It’s effin’ brilliant. Though most us weren’t in high school in 1980 (the year in which the show is set), a lot of us can relate, at least I can because I wasn’t in the cool clique (yes, hard to believe). I’d label myself a geek. Back to Superbad, I laughed lots and so did Agent 99. We were lovin’ the character of Fogell, aka McLovin (Christoper Mintz-Plasse), and I thought Michael Cera turned in a spot-on performance as the straight man, Seth’s best bud Evan. And I'm sure Superbad is better than The Nanny Diaries or other August drivel.