when two friends wrote a stupid movie...and it broke the genre

[@SceneItReviews]

also, didn't mention this in the vid, but Rogan recently claimed Superbad was the "last good high school comedy" - thoughts on this??? For the record, I disagree - Lady Bird, Booksmart and Edge of 17 - although not 2000s raunchy/gross-out comedies - were all really good, and funny in their own ways. However, that's 3 movies in 16 years...not ideal.

[@elikebudi]

This kind of comedy is not being made now somehow. People or industry became more serious and sensitive maybe. I also love Adam Sandler comedies, they’ve also changed , that style is found stupid or Idk, I love ‘em. Comedy movies doesn’t come out much anymore which I hate. Loved this video❤

[@SceneItReviews]

​@@elikebudi yeah I was listening to an Adam Sandler interview the other day and he was saying how much his writing approach has changed since his SNL/Happy Gilmore days - both because of the fear of cancel culture/how quickly angry people can "mobilise" online now, but also because studios don't really make $20 million comedies anymore :((( definitely a dying breed.

[@TommyAngelo1337]

Easy A came out 3 years later and I rated that one higher.

[@SceneItReviews]

@@TommyAngelo1337 true - another good one

[@BobBob-rg9cp]

not really into these kinds of films but him saying this was the last best high school comedy or anyone about their own work feels kinda full of themselves not saying he is but idk i think let other people decide that but idk could just be me i never feel right saying any work i do is better then others but i also do art and game design well small projects rn that being said you can definitely tell someone their stuff is bad i just feel like at a certain point something isnt just better but is down to what you like (and yes youtube comments are the only place i can share my random brain thoughts)

[@triplflip900]

I think "back when comedies took chances with their casting" would be an even better re-title. Because that never happens anymore

[@SceneItReviews]

"back when they made more than 3 comedies a year" 🥲

[@triplflip900]

@@SceneItReviews Or simply "back when they made real comedies"

[@nickalfonso8616]

@@SceneItReviews When did the last notable comedy even come out? I genuinely can only remember Good Boys and that was 2019

[@TheRealAbraxas]

@@SceneItReviews I feel like studios perceive the public to be too uptight for comedy but it’s really not true for 99% of people, its just the Twitter lurkers that will review bomb everything into oblivion.

[@yunumberjuan7388]

Oh it happens. But only with established IPs using actors that are totally different ethnicities than the original source material, and they're also gay now.

[@jaysway9251]

Probably THEE best high school comedy ever written. Felt so real

[@peternystrom921]

Haha i agree, i’m close to crying when i think about when i see it first time. Most amazing movie ever made.

[@TommyAngelo1337]

I watched this movie in highschool also but I guess because I'm not American and wasn't familiar with your culture, I never thought it was relatable, I just liked it because it was funny. I even thought it was whacky and over the top, not real.

[@jacklafferty6654]

​@@TommyAngelo1337I think the equivalent in British humour would be the tv show The Inbetweeners in capturing the awkwardness of your teenage years

[@Notchur.Architect]

This movie puts all over highschool movies to shame

[@ARIGATOUIKKEIKE]

Highschool Musical. Now don't you feel silly.

[@TobyKBTY]

The Mclovin-Muhammed conversation scene during the fake ID reveal is legit one of the funniest things I've ever watched and it still gets me to this day, years later.

[@guccimain89]

The theater I was in couldn’t stop laughing the entire time. It’s one of multiple times I cried laughing the first time I saw it. However, to this day, when the cops say “OH SHIT ITS THE COPS” when shooting the street sign, I still tell people the moment I saw that for the first time is the hardest I’ve laughed in my entire life.

[@calebd512]

I agree.. when he yells "nobody has ever heard of it becus its a stupid made up fucking name"!! 😂

[@jesusnthedaisychain]

I wasn't too keen on the movie until Fogle showed up, and that McLovin scene sold me. When Jonah looked like his neurons were popping in his brain, "Why the f*** would it be between that and Muhammed!?" I loved that expression.

[@johancruyff6157]

I consider this film a modern masterpiece. I will always appreciate Judd Apatow for bringing realness and emotional depth to comedy films, something that we take for granted now. Also one of the most quotable movie of all time

[@JerryFlowersIII]

Jonah Hill really manifested his career. For this and Wolf of Wallstreet he was just persistant in being cast and eventually got it. He's probably done it more than that.

[@Scroolewse]

I just recently heard about the series Maniac and watched on a whim, it was great! I knew Jonah was a good dramatic actor but I'm still always surprised at how good he is

[@arnoldsilva1111]

The daytime dialogue is so brilliantly written it’s ridiculous. Really captured the awkwardness of high school.

[@brandonhicks9926]

As I’ve grown older I’ve found these types of comedies less and less funny, but I always find myself going back to Superbad and laughing every time. It really is the Quintessential high schooler comedy and I don’t think anything could top it

[@zarblitz]

I think it's because the funniest parts of the movie are not the over-the-top hijinks that make you roll your eyes once you're older, it's the "real life" stuff that happens in between that's the funniest.

[@RuinedItAgain]

You can't make good comedies anymore. They are scared someone may get offended. I would tell them to just not watch the damn movie, but alas we are in clown world.

[@dragoxk4542]

@@RuinedItAgainyeah this just isn’t true though is it.

[@RuinedItAgain]

@@dragoxk4542 name a good comedy that released in the last 5 years

[@Yourmom_y]

@@RuinedItAgain”Bottoms” is a recent movie that is actually really good.

[@tyandre]

This movie was almost a staple for me and my friends growing up. From middle school all the way up to college, you’d have people quoting it or at least making Mclovin jokes

[@joydas7149]

Recommend some more movies during that era

[@MaxIronsThird]

This movie is way too good to be real, and the fact that we got Emma Stone out of it, is just insane.

[@robhappe853]

People forget how groundbreaking funny this was when it came out. I was always into comedy movies and when this came out i remember thinking in the theatre this was the hardest i ever laughed in my life...the next unique and perfectly nailed joke hit you when you were still laughing at the last one and it was relentless. First movie i actually missed about 30% of the dialog because me or the rest of the audience was still roaring laughing from the last joke. Was the full swing beginning of the golden age of comedy movies in my opinion

[@marshfilm]

I was a teen in the 80's with odd, funny (not so cool) friends. All we were doing was going on crazy adventures, trying to score booze and weed and chicks from neighbouring towns... This movie felt so accurate that it actually gave me an anxiety attack watching it... I guess it reminded me of how I barely survived young adulthood... Brilliant movie.

[@cattysplat]

Many ways that is timeless. Teens will always be getting up to edgy mischief by pushing boundaries, throwing parties with alcohol resulting in drunken escapades, trying to get laid by any means because they've never had sex before. Even if technology moves along, teenagers never change.

[@xMDawg19x]

Right there with you!

[@Nicolas-v1z4i]

SAME me with my friends except in the 2010's and booz didnt last long i smoked weed and did hard drugs

[@harborwolf22]

'can I get 13 beers to go please....' Only a cop could get away with that.

[@Paratet]

How the hell did we get Superbad in 2007 and The Inbetweeners the next year? Two of the greatest and realest high school comedies ever.

[@schrodingerscat1863]

Inbetweeners really was Superbad with British kids, very similar vibe, both hilarious, very well written and totally relatable to people of the respective countries.

[@JesusFriedChrist]

They’re both relatable for those that grew up before everyone had a phone in their hands.

[@solomonchilds8574]

A stacked cast classic. Which I could have seen it in cinema

[@elikebudi]

These actors and films are universal. Great comedies

[@gameznthingz]

Dude, I thought this was a channel with millions of subscribers! This is great content! Keep pushing!

[@SceneItReviews]

cheers bud - glad to know you enjoyed it👍

[@MelissaThompson432]

0:05 I distinctly heard this next sentence as "it's the late nonny-nonnies."

[@ChosenPlaysYT]

I’ll always remember the scene where he’s staring at her cleavage, then his eyes come up and she’s just staring back at him disgusted, so he tries to pass it off like he was just glancing around the room lol

[@dumpnutz756]

I carry a Mclovin ID in my wallet and frequently hand it to waitresses / bartenders who ID me. One of my favorite movies ever

[@ninjadare]

dude your analysis paired w bts is amazing and edited seamlessly. keep it up!

[@jamesdavidwest]

When this movie came out my best friend and I finally had a movie we could watch and realistically see ourselves as the best friend main characters. To this day, he and I are still best friends and talk nonstop almost every single day. We became friends at 15 and I'm 38 now, so a 23 year long best friend relationship that grew exactly like the friendship in Superbad. Fun times.

[@HighKingTurgon]

Without Superbad, I don't see a world in which The Edge of Seventeen gets made. Which is a wrong world to live in

[@SceneItReviews]

another good one!

[@HighKingTurgon]

@@SceneItReviews ...should have read the pinned comment xD

[@Dzi3DZiC]

or booksmart

[@purgatoryprince]

Or Project X

[@AarmOZ84]

In the US Navy, if you did not watch a Judd Apatow movie in theaters then you had nothing to talk about on the boat.

[@iWhacko]

boat? or ship?

[@fredrickrichardson8980]

Anyone else notice the drawn portraits of Sam and Lindsey from Freaks and Geeks in the background of Michael Cera's interview at 7:35 ??

[@sophiaisabelle027]

The cast looks incredible. Seems like Michael Cera carried this whole movie on his back,

[@tyandre]

He’s excellent, no doubt. But you’d be doing the movie a disservice if you underestimate Johan Hill and Christopher Charles Mintz-Plasse. Not to mention side characters like Rogen and Bill Hader absolutely kill it as the cops

[@Kashie2]

Doing what

[@alexpotts6520]

I love Michael Cera but he is just playing the same role he plays in everything.

[@adreanalvarez6854]

@@alexpotts6520true

[@bamadave83]

Uhh

[@peternystrom921]

This movie realy made me a more happy person, its so amazing. I see it around 3-4 times each year every year sins it was out.

[@shiven513]

The movie definitely didn't help you with grammar.

[@rufiredup90]

*really and *since

[@CamiloNavajas]

I see No hard feelings and definitely got the 2000's comedy movies vibes but in a totally renewed way.

[@SceneItReviews]

Going to see it tonight! Hope it’s fun 😇

[@Iosaiv]

@@SceneItReviewsit was cool

[@Melinda-f3l]

Me too! It was so good!

[@geisonmcd]

I'm Brazilian and although the highschool culture is pretty different, it was really fucking relatable in a way, the way they talked to each other, etc. My friends and I even say it dubbed and we couldn't stop laughing.

[@saladbowl85]

Love that film. For some reason the homeless guy yelling “McMuffin” on the bus is still the funniest to me 😂

[@Melinda-f3l]

He was on Freaks and Geeks. After watching all of these shows had to watch it. If you haven’t seen it you must. You won’t regret it!

[@BboyCorrosive]

High school in 2023 - Euphoria Actual high school - Superbad

[@DavZeugme]

TBH, it depends where you live and with whom you stand, but I get your point. Also, getting to smash Emma Stone's levels of gf as a random is uncommon as well.

[@LairdUSA]

Dude great work on these videos. You’re talented

[@_WhiteMage]

4:45 "Apatow finally had the jews to get the movie greenlit" 😂

[@ProfessorDarkAcademia]

I love how they “couldn’t” cast Seth Rogen as Seth because he was too old … so they cast Jonah Hill, an actor one whole year younger than Rogen. (To be fair, Rogen did have the track sheet of playing older adult actors, but the joke stands)

[@masondane]

ive seen this movie more times than i can even count and have literally somehow only just now connected the dots that seth and evan are literally seth and evan lmaoooo

[@dramaqueenbee]

this gives me hope, thank you and u made me smile with content and belief in future

[@abborith]

i miss the old days of genuinely good comedy popcorn movies. the ones where you spit your soda out through your nose cuz you're laughing too hard. where you can go to the movies with your family and just have a good time and not worry about canon or lore, just enjoy.

[@SceneItReviews]

Yeah it’s been a rough decade for comedies - here’s hoping for a revival! What’s your funniest cinema comedy experience? I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder than when I went to see Step Brothers (probably because I was rightttt in the age bracket, but geeeez it was funny)

[@abborith]

@@SceneItReviews i think the funniest time was me and my friend went to watch grown ups and we were freshman in high school. when adam sandler and kevin james were messing with david spade when he was asleep and they slapped him. me and my friends were dying and then the crowd shushed us and we just kept slapping each other to quiet down which only made us laugh even harder. i had to step out of the movie because i couldn't breathe being around those assholes who kept making me laugh xD

[@ninjireal]

well personally I think spitting soda through your nose is painful

[@evanwakelin7944]

The only movie I ever watched twice in the same day. When I rented it for the first time, I liked it so much I took it over to my girlfriend's place and immediately watched it again haha.

[@brentloy131]

Bro when Michael Cera’s character gets trapped, cornered and forced to sing…. Because he’s that one guy’s brother, you know, the singer.

[@edd4131]

Michael Cera fucking killed it 😭 I think every single line of his shatters me everytime I watch this movie

[@XpunkishXduckX]

this was the first rated R movie my best friend and I snuck into when it came out in middle school. Bought tickets for the Simpsons movie and snuck in via the bathroom across the way. We saw another kid from our school seeing it with his parents lol

[@CJonesApple]

Emma Stone did do well winning an Oscar but Jonah Hill was still nominated twice.

[@SceneItReviews]

yeah Hill went from 'funny fat guy' to 'dramatic actor working with Scorsese' - pretty incredible

[@imbaby5499]

They were both really, really good in Maniac mini-series

[@rzn2258]

Sooooooo.. 2 Second Places Beats 1 First Place Riiiiiiiiiiiiight

[@dielaughing73]

​@@imbaby5499 amazing chemistry across all the different styles and scenarios. I love that show so much

[@RyTrapp0]

@@rzn2258 Calm down, it's just a Hollywood popularity award. Kinda like "MVP" awards in sports.

[@ItsNuxFury]

This is one of those classics that gets better and better the more you watch it.

[@internziko]

I'll never forget seeing SB in the theater. They'll never make movies like that again.

[@jonstiffer4994]

When it comes to high school movies it's Superbad, Dazed and Confused and Fast Times at Ridgemont High at the top for me.

[@BilobateDrip]

Hearing myspace mentioned hit hard. Holy heck, freshman year came back in an instant

[@sianspherica]

It's in the top 5 comedy movies of all time. I'm 40 and I've never, ever heard an audience laugh so absurdly hard as they did when I saw Superbad opening weekend.

[@BryanErskine]

I can vividly remember seeing this in HS for the first time, with my friends and I dying laughing in the theater . It was perfect.

[@Vocu]

Jonah slimmed down so much hes unrecognizable, we will always see him as his Superbad self.

[@crazziemonkke]

superbad belongs in the criterion collection

[@LinuxPlayer9]

I loved that movie, never heard of it before you mentionned it. I'm really glad I subscribed to you

[@Readesu]

Dog the cut at the end caught me off guard and got me laughin.

[@sirkyoj1]

I think the Fogel actor is very underrated.

[@alzapiedi2]

1:34 today i learned that the characters of american pie are not awkward puberty ridden disasters

[@nickgavis0305]

I wish I could go back to the first time I saw this movie. Same with Pineapple Express. Saw them with my brother before he passed away

[@user-uf5mv1vm5o]

I love how they worked on body language and clothes in this movie. Many just forget about this and the way the actors dress or move make it unbeleivable that they are in high school. This one depicts it perfectly, the school scenes are perfect

[@izzwizamahjah275]

13 beers to go is such a funny ass line

[@koolestani]

No way I see this in my recommendations just 2 hours after I watched it. I'm guessing I have GBoard to thank for this.

[@AbyssWatch3r]

that beer on the detergent container gotta make your stomach hurt and have diarrhea 😂

[@tuckerjones5899]

Who hasn’t got uncomfortably trapped in a room of weird dudes doing blow

[@mienzillaz]

Thank God for the Pirate Bay at that time.. 😂

[@yungvampir04]

At 4:06 Seth sounded SO MUCH like J.K. Simmons

[@Annatar_Lord_of_Gifts]

Love your channel! You also sound exactly like Skill Up

[@ReverendMuncle]

Excellent analysis. Thank you

[@Abakato]

0:44 "ANDY THE HIGHWAY LOOKED SO DARK" Those who know know lol

[@merlinperlo4610]

casting sounds like a great oscar category until you realise that the casting director (who they would give the oscar to) wasnt mentionned at all in this vid :)

[@MatthewSmith-fy5hk]

I laughed so much the first time I saw it, I went to see it again to catch everything I missed and to watch everyone else laugh at what I hadn't. That hasn't happened to me since Superbad.

[@0002pA]

I still remember how at the end of 2008 I was talking with another guy on CoD 4 and we both loved Superbad... so I told him to check out Tropic Thunder. Honestly, these both were exceptional comedies. lmao

[@amybyrd419]

Man, great times watching this movie. I’m just sad that current generation will never have these kind of experiences growing up. The times hanging out in groups, having real conversations and physically be present and connected with each other …… will never be again.

[@sunnyM42]

i think the physical comedy is what really does it for me in this movie, i didn’t laugh at many of the jokes (though the deliveries were good and the fake ID scene is probably the best comedy scene ever) but the physical comedy bits make me laugh uncontrollably each time. seth getting hit by the car, fogel getting punched (the fucking SOUND he makes, i laugh every time before it even happens) and just a lot of the characters’ facial expressions and movements wrap all the jokes together. honestly if this movie was made today by netflix and cast with the same one dimensional and overrated ”hot” actors that are everywhere, it wouldn’t be anywhere near as good or even that memorable imo.

[@jonathanjoestar__]

i remember when i was 17, the night i lost my virginity (i werent no late bloomer i just have no game lmao), went round to hers, smoked a few joints in her parents back garden with her, we went in, sat down on her couch and she said she wanted to watch a movie, she put superbad on. watched the first 15 minutes, missed the rest of the movie (hmm i wonder what we were doing). oh to be 17 again

[@geegee5970]

good shit jonathan joestar

[@RonaldCabrera-h5y]

These actors and films are universal. Great comedies. A stacked cast classic. Which I could have seen it in cinema.

[@MabGrego]

i remember in way way back losing my shit when jonah gets backed into by the car, and seeing it again just now i still think that it has no reason to be as funny as it is. but it is

[@fellowninja]

"If a production company trusted some original talent" yeah, I don't think we're getting that again for a while :(

[@SceneItReviews]

A24 and Neon do it a bit tbf

[@spicydeath82]

it did remind me a lot of high school shenanigans me and my friends would get up to.

[@AlgodonMarino]

Seth Rogan, known associate of Joe Rogan, not to be confused with Seth Rogen, the man known for his trademark laugh

[@Fishua221]

I don't know why it's so infuriating that this dude made this whole video but couldn't bother to get the name of one of the (relatively famous) dudes it's written by/about correct.

[@Nirbanox]

keep up the good work mate

[@the_RCB_films]

I really wish someone would give Michael Cera a serious acting role, I've only ever seen him in one sort of serious role, and that role was weird. He did good though. . . I hate how he is stuck as the awkward guy.

[@Melinda-f3l]

I do to. I adore him. Have since Arrested Development.

[@ricardofujii249]

SuperBad and Drillbit Taylor... love both movies, I know every scene and still laugh a lot.

[@winterwarden]

yeah I remember watching this in middle school or high school and I felt they got something right that almost no teen comedy before it. Still can't put my finger on it (cant be arsed) but it's defining an era frfr

[@nickmarras249]

Wanting to be cool, but knowing that you’re not. Too relatable

[@kevandre]

it's interesting, when this movie was new it really didn't do that much for me honestly, despite the fact that I was the right age for it, being in high school at the time. But these days, most of 20 years later, I think it's become one of my favorite comedies

[@eshbyesh]

At 0:53, you call Jonah Hill "Seth", both vocally and on-screen with captions.

[@SceneItReviews]

Yeah…his character is called Seth in Superbad? Jonah Hill is playing the role originally written for and by Seth Rogen - it’s explained in the video.

[@stevehood4263]

Hey Scene It, do a video about Sean Penn! He cries in almost every movie. It's his thing. He's good at it

[@dcb99filmz]

Martha MacIsaac (Becca) fell off so hard that I only know her from this, Magi-Nation, and that short-lived dub of Slam Dunk that only went 20 episodes

[@IantheDugan]

Superbad is a perfect movie in my opinion. Also insane how famous the cast got: Jonah Hill Emma Stone Michael Cera Chritopher Mintz-Plasse Bill Hader Seth Rogan Joe Lo Truglio Dave Franco Clark Duke Brian Huskey Only outdone by the Scott Pilgrim cast around the same time.

[@joseph1150]

These small movies have so much upside potential it's stupid how Hollywood just dumps movies into big tentpole franchises that nobody wants to watch anymore. Even if they screw up the studio isn't out much money.

[@chefizzy2238]

My brother introduced me to this movie at the ripe age of 10ish… not a single movie has managed to make me laugh consistently how this movie has since

[@alexsotoroman1466]

Thought it was the SkillUp channel for a second

[@vernonsullivan92]

In France we have "Les Beaux Gosses" - I'm pretty sure english subtitles exists, you all shall watch it

[@Kelberoth]

feel like you can kinda tell that michael cera was prepared by arrested development for this role

[@justinvincent9668]

Not a contemporary film to American Pie though…almost a decade apart my man

[@HeadbutKneecap]

Even in freaks and geaks, seth BARELY met the age of his character by how old he was

[@kevynhansyn2902]

He has a "trademark laugh"? Thats a first i ever heard of such a thing.

[@rzssy]

you make great videos

[@JamesPascazio]

Is the narrator the Book Cheat podcast guy?

[@johnfattig6937]

To me this is the best comedy ever made. I could watch this every day for a year straight!

[@erikn3377]

Honestly an absolute all star cast

[@Annatar_Lord_of_Gifts]

That's Jimmy's brother! The singer! Sing for us man!

[@frankguy6843]

You sound so similar to Skill Up the videogame review channel, in a good way