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Teen Dreams.(Superbad and Delirious)(Movie review)

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The twenty-three-year-old comic actor Jonah Hill has an aureole of electrified hair, a coarse whine, and plump hands, which he waves around like an unhinged conductor. Hill specializes in playing huffy near-hysterics. He was part of Seth Rogen's crew in "Knocked Up"--the petulant boy who had a nervous breakdown in a hospital waiting room when he realized that disease might be lurking nearby. In "Superbad" he teams up with Michael Cera, a sweet-faced charmer who drains all tension out of his lines. If Hill is as frantic as the Three Stooges wrapped into one, Cera (from the TV series "Arrested Development") is so ...

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