This is something a smart person wouldn't do.
Ten years ago I saw Greg Mottola's The Daytrippers as part of a filmmaking class I was taking. It was a modest indie comedy and I enjoyed it a lot. I lost track of Mottola after that, though, which is hardly surprising since he spent the ensuing decade directing a lot of television, including episodes of Undeclared and Arrested Development. Now at last comes his second feature, the superior high school comedy Superbad, which comes with the Judd Apatow seal of approval and a screenplay by Knocked Up star Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg.
It almost seems silly to go into the plot since the plot of a film like Superbad is almost beside the point, but I'll try to cover it in the broadest strokes possible. It's two weeks until high school graduation for best friends Seth and Evan (Jonah Hill and Michael Cera) when they get an unprecedented opportunity to impress the girls they're hot for (Emma Stone and Martha MacIsaac, respectively) by agreeing to procure the alcohol for a house party Stone is throwing. To accomplish this they enlist geeky associate Christopher Mintz-Plasse and his newly-minted fake I.D., on which he decided to use the unlikely moniker "McLovin." It doesn't take long for plans to go awry, though, especially when the liquor store is robbed and officers Bill Hader and Seth Rogen arrive on the scene. To say that the boys get sidetracked on the way to the party with the liquor would be a gross understatement.
Like Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Superbad is extremely frank about sex and the way the average American male gets hung up on it. How it differs from those films, though, is the fact that it's also about the enduring friendship between Hill and Cera, which is in jeopardy since they'll be going their separate ways at the end of the summer. (Cera got accepted to Dartmouth while Hill... didn't.) Their bond is strong, though, and the way their relationship plays out is quite touching -- but not the kind of touching that turns sappy and maudlin. (And not the kind of touching that went on in Brokeback Mountain, either. For a movie about testing the bounds of male friendship, there is a refreshing dearth of gay panic jokes.)