The Biblical Sense.('Superbad')(Movie review)

"Superbad" (Sony), a comedy set in the milieu of graduating seniors at a suburban high school, begins with pornography. The loud, large, and ribald Seth (Jonah Hill) calls his best friend, the slight, circumspect Evan (Michael Cera), to discuss in fulsome detail a Web site called "Vag-Tastic Voyage." The boys talk constantly about sex, and the story runs on their efforts to get laid, but what they want, besides pleasure, is knowledge--as Seth explains, "to be good at sex by the time you get to college." They plan to impress girls by getting the liquor for a big party with the help of a third friend, Fogel (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), an ultimate nerd with a fake I.D., and the film follows the trio as their efforts go crazily awry and turn into a long, wild night.

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg started work on the script at age thirteen, and their eponymous characters' banter and pranks have the ring of truth (as coaxed into life by the director, Greg Mottola). But Judd Apatow, one of the producers, helped shape the material and give it a moral point: there's no such thing as theoretical knowledge. Despite the hypersexualized culture that kids grow up in, they really know nothing about sex; yet the clever ones, like the heroes of the film, recognize their ignorance and take the impulsive, risky leap into action. The resulting adventure becomes more important to ...