What’s Aged the Best?
Title sequence and 1976 funk song; 70s funk soundtrack; the title; DTF; drunk-women theme; Slater and Michaels; Seth's lines; Cera's performance; McLovin's store terror; slow-motion catch trope; homeless guy
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- The opening title sequence uses Too Hot to Stop, a real 1976 funk song that was licensed rather than written for the movie.
- The mostly 70s funk and disco soundtrack and title reflect 90s kids trying to be 70s cool in a 2007 movie; confusing if you think hard, and the stars were often asked what super bad means.
- "One Crazy Night" would not have the same feel; one theory is kids who played the Pulp Fiction soundtrack a lot, and the shirt he wears suggests a setting around 2001.
- Superbad is just a good title.
- Rogen tweeted on the 10th anniversary that the movie invented DTF; Jersey Shore people said they got it from the movie and the Situation trademarked it on shirts.
- The theme that you should not take advantage of drunk women was ahead of its time in 2007, unlike 70s and 80s comedies with Animal House the worst offender; the guys are horny but have a decent moral compass.
- Rogen and Hader are in their own buddy-cop movie that intersects this one; a Slater and Michaels show or where-are-they-now movie would be watched and crowdfunded.
- Seth's lines, including anti-poon, the back located on his cock, cargo shorts, who directs his porn and the lube line, are part of his 20 great lines.
- A request to let others say some lines, followed by the police car running red lights, doing donuts and shooting it while on fire.
- Officer Michaels on having a gun: like having two cocks if one of them could kill someone.
- Cera's line about conversing with adults and a man who climbed five mountains cuts to Jonah chugging.
- Who won between Jonah and Michael is interesting; Cera redefines his one-pitch persona with perfect, singular line readings and facial expressions.
- The movie nails McLovin's fear in the store, with the camera zooming in on his abject terror.
- Added late: the slow-motion leap to catch something soaring through the air, like the Risky Business egg, with the Goldschlager bottle here.
- Also added late: the homeless guy attacking McLovin behind the restaurant and later recognizing him on the bus as McMuffin.
- Watching with subtitles reveals a line in the bar as they arrive: someone yelling at the bartender to get these nuts out of their shells.