The Reel Rejects - SUPERBAD (2007) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:05 More on them soon. How you doing, Aaron? I'm doing well. You're ready? I am. Morgan Freeman is ready. Bad and super. That's good.

Starting point is 00:01:13 This is good. Let's watch it. And at the end, I almost like kind of got teared up, like the way that he was looking at him on the stairs. And I was like, oh. it's like it's almost like when they said bye to each other like a parent saying bye to their kid of like you got my numbers so you can call me like letting them like go off to live their life like they'd never been at the mall before with without each other and now they're like they're going their separate ways and growing up and I I just like with the music I was like it's sweet it's so sweet if you're listening to us and outforce Spotify gives a five star rating obviously like and share this video we just got done watching Superbad. Oh my God. It was so good.

Starting point is 00:02:04 What did you think? It was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed it. Me too. The comedy was like zip fire, boom, bam, pow in the beginning. Because great pacing and all the characters are really hilarious. Yeah. And I think just, yeah, the stakes of what they're going through were always permeating.

Starting point is 00:02:22 And I think that just it was very much a movie of its time. But I really enjoyed it. It still holds up for the most part. Yeah, right? Like with the comedy and. the jokes and the pacing of it, it still holds up, except for some stuff that they say that's like, oh, that would never say it in his script nowadays.

Starting point is 00:02:36 But other than that, like, all of where it goes, I assume that whoever wrote this was a lot into improv comedy, that you could feel that from scene to scene to scene. I mean, there were so many switchups. Yeah, hello switchup from the entire time. I thought it was really good. Also, I just want to say Bill Hader and Seth Rogen were hilarious in this movie. Great duo.

Starting point is 00:03:00 And Christopher Mintz Plotz, I think is his name. Killer for his first movie. Oh, my God. He was amazing. Like, I wonder how they discovered him. I wonder what his audition would have been. Yeah. Of, like, what his lines were?

Starting point is 00:03:12 Because he's so, he's so great when he gets, he's just great. He's just plays such a nerd, such a nerdy guy so well. I mean, so does Michael Sarah and Jonah Hill. They all have, like, their awkwardness, which is great. It's this trio of awkward dudes who, like, haven't been late, probably haven't been kissed, but they're like best buddies. And we all know those people like back in maybe high school where it's like you just kind of hang with your own crew and you're not really worried about, you think about it about

Starting point is 00:03:42 hooking up, but you're mainly like you're hanging with your, you're a nerdy like core. And that's what this movie was to it's like to the tea. And then it's sort of sows you the example of like how when they get to that point to where they maybe can drink, go to a party, maybe hook up. up with a girl, like a girl, and where life takes you, that at the end, I think is also that sort of, you guys didn't realize how nostalgic it would be when you're in your basement drinking beers or sleeping bags until now. Because now they're all going to go off on their separate ways. Yeah, they're on the cusp of this change and they're about to go to college.

Starting point is 00:04:22 And yeah, I kind of relate to the sentiment that you were saying earlier, the fact that this, them splitting up was not only them going off with their different girls but like that first initial parting of like the difference in their lives and the path to go on yeah and yeah that whole scene earlier where they uh it was the morning after and it's like oh like oh you don't have to leave exactly it's like a one-night stand kind of a thing right because they just told each other they love like their true feelings come out when you're drinking you say the truth normally and it's like a little awkward and i love the writing to where you could tell just by the way that they're writing it and then of course the way to get

Starting point is 00:04:59 him out of it is like hey your mom's tits are hot and then that's how they get out of that moment i thought it's so funny yeah i had to bring it back to that sense of normality for them they're like oh this too vulnerable all right i'm gonna bring it back yep yeah i thought it was a lot of fun and i definitely understand why this was the the movie of 2007 i think that's when it came out i don't know yeah probably something like that but yeah all the references all the jones i'm like okay i have i have a lot of context for it now but yeah it just brings it back to that time of like know, feeling awkward into that stage and, you know, the adventures and the length you go for what feels so important at the time.

Starting point is 00:05:39 And just watching them go through that journey and just the different obstacles they have to go to to get to this thing just to realize what they wanted wasn't what they actually wanted or what they thought they wanted wasn't what they needed the entire time. I thought was great. I thought that was something that, yeah, which really added a lot of what made it more relatable, I guess. Because, you know, like, I feel like, Seth was very much like trying to put up this front. Like, yeah, man, we got to go get it because like we're going to get late. This is our only chance. And then finally we get to that period where like, oh, that's not what either of them really wanted was just to have a one night stand. Like, yeah, he genuinely liked here. But he just, he didn't believe in himself. Or he just felt like this is the only way he could get that, the closest thing. Because, yeah, it was, you saw it from the beginning. Like, yeah, that's the only way you can get late. Like, if you guys get drunk, man. And then no, I like, I like. I like. I like. the fact that she liked him for him and I thought that was very cool and then Michael Sarah was like the reverse and the fact that he was someone who didn't want to get late he just

Starting point is 00:06:38 wanted to connect with this girl and he wanted that the entire time but because Seth wanted that he just felt like he had to go along with that because right the pressure of their dynamic exactly I feel like this movie adds in sort of a bait and switch because at the top you're like porn all they want to do is like hook up you got to get these girls drunk you're like oh where was this headed because they make a lot of like dark jokes in in the beginning where it's like all like sex and I'm sure that they're sex hungry because they haven't hooked up with a girl. And then you get the side of Michael Sarah's character of like, he wants to like respect a woman. He's like, no, I'm out of here, man. I'm just going to tell Becca how I feel. Like I don't

Starting point is 00:07:12 need to get her drunk. Like whatever. He's he's sort of the straight man and like Jonah Hill's character is a Lucy Goosey when we talk about a peat, a pod, like an improv stuff. And I thought it really worked really well. And so it was surprising to me when we got that wholesome side of Michael Sarah's character. um that he was always constantly living up to doing the right things and it wasn't like he was like i got to do the right thing it wasn't hard for him it's not hard for a lot of people to just like do the right thing you're like ah this is probably a little uncomfortable like maybe let's not do it um and and in the reverse emma stone's character again another wholesome character

Starting point is 00:07:50 that's like no i never said i wouldn't like you because we look different i just don't want it because you are wasted not into it yeah and this For that to be a message within this type of movie in the way that it starts is a great message. Totally. Because a lot of people, the age that are watching this movie are like, yeah, like, I need to like go hook, probably get like waisty pants, go to a party. Maybe I'll hook up with a girl or a guy. When I think in reality, most of them are probably more leaning towards like, you probably may be what I do when you're slightly sober. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:08:25 You know? Yeah, yeah. I think Seth Rogen had a line earlier in the movie. Like, yeah, the best place to meet someone without a bar, like a party. Like, you know, out of like a pottery place or like a pumpkin patch. Yeah, exactly. Reject Nation, I just want to take a quick second to thank today's sponsor because as a business owner, I am surprisingly not the greatest at handling and tracking finances.

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Starting point is 00:10:45 of the movie. Even though the first half of the movie did make me laugh, I think once we really got into it and we started to see those other elements is when I really started to go from like, just liking this movie to really liking this movie. Yeah, and I feel like they did a really good job of like Jonah Hill and Michael Sarah's character, like building that up, seeing the love that they have for each other, them going through a bunch of shit to arrive where they are. And the same of like, Mike Loving gets his own sort of love story where he's like,

Starting point is 00:11:11 he's with these cops, the cops take care of him, he had a chance, but then he gets this like sort of like this celebratory non-nerd-like thing where it's like he gets to live in an action adventure film where it's like he blows up a, car with two cops gets to shoot out all of its windows and you're like yeah that's like making his dream come true it's just like has a really sweet ending for all of the characters our main characters yeah all of our main characters got to have a good night in the end yeah i really enjoyed just i enjoyed both plots i think i enjoyed the mclovin stuff and like the cop stuff a little bit more than the main part because it was just so ridiculous over the top yeah and just

Starting point is 00:11:53 Seth Rogen and Bill Hader are just such master improvise. It was just so great. So good. I would love to see like a spin-off with those two characters and doing something. That would be hilarious.

Starting point is 00:12:03 I wonder why they didn't do that. Writer Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg started this script when they were just 13 years old because we just wanted to see if we could write a movie. Wow. Interesting. Michael Sarah's mother actually read the script

Starting point is 00:12:18 before he did and she was the one who convinced him to try out for the part. mom manager That's crazy His mom convinced him to do it Wow This is the film debut of guess who Not not the other kid

Starting point is 00:12:33 That was already said introducing But guess who else John Hill? Emma Stone What, no way? Yeah, film debut of Emma Stone Wow, that's crazy I don't know that

Starting point is 00:12:44 During filming Christopher Mintz-Plase Was the youngest at 17 Michael Sarah was 18 Jonah Hill was the oldest at 23 because Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen are such great friends. They were quoted as saying that when casting Evan, they weren't so much looking for a good actor as they were casting for a new best friend.

Starting point is 00:13:04 And I just realized that. The two characters are named after the two writers. Yes, exactly. Wow, that's awesome. I'm just realizing that too. That's awesome. Let's see. The lead character, Seth and Evan, are named after.

Starting point is 00:13:17 You just said that. Oh, my God. This is also Jonah Hill's first leading role. Wow. And he was great. He killed it. Oh, my God. Justin Long had a scene in this movie, but it was omitted due to its length.

Starting point is 00:13:34 Oh, man. That's crazy. Or that would have been. Oh, and Jennifer Lawrence was considered for the role of Jules. Oh. Interesting. Okay. Okay.

Starting point is 00:13:44 Let's see. Reunion six years after the release of the movie, Jonah Hill, Michael Sarah, Christopher Mince Plaza, played themselves in his scene. And this is the end, 2013. They are seen together at James Franco's House party. Seth Rogen, Officer Michaels, also appears as himself in the film. I haven't seen this is the end, 2013. I saw it one time years ago, but I genuinely don't remember what happened.

Starting point is 00:14:05 So that'd be a fun one. I remember being funny, though. That's crazy. I'll read one spoiler. Let's see. Seth Rogen's father appears as the baseball bat-wielding dad when Seth and Fogh are fleeing the police to the backyard. That's cool.

Starting point is 00:14:18 his father who's like you little oh my god danny mcbride is in the background of the house party scene i was trying to see if if what's her nuts was in it but it doesn't say because you thought you saw captain america girl oh brie larsson yeah thank you um anyway it doesn't say that she was in it but i could look further we i don't think we have the time i loved this movie it was a lot of fun made me laugh i really like that in the end the the wholesome like story and the little bits that they were trying to tell. The moral code of the movie within these characters is really sweet. And I honestly got emotional at the end when he goes down the escalator and he looks back twice.

Starting point is 00:15:02 And then he's sort of like best friend disappears because I was like, oh, of course they'll probably see each other. But then again, your life changes so much when you go to college that you kind of might not. And I really, I just, I appreciate this movie. yeah i appreciate it too this is a lot of fun and i understand why this is like the um the thing that's set up other raunchy comedies like since then obviously there's been something before then but i feel like this kind of set the tone for like high school coming of age raunchy comedies so i'm happy i finally get to see it yeah man leave a like leave a comment share this video go get your cult of shejek shirt um go to get awesome stuff at rejacknation shop.com you guys know they have a bunch of stuff um yeah

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Starting point is 00:16:02 Bye. Maria Hammond. Hey, Maria. If there's anyone who I think deserves a raunchy, a reverent, illegal. Yes. Binge. Yes, yes, yes. A bender of an adventure.

Starting point is 00:16:21 I would say it's Maria Hammond. You're just too good of a soul. If there's anyone on our Patreon page, and I feel like who would be our Mick Luffin, I guess, to John. Excellent. Oh, man, always egging us on. Always coming up with like the craziest things to say, getting us bruise and stuff with your fake ID.

Starting point is 00:16:43 You deserve an adventure of debauchery, Maria. Oh, my God. We would get F-up, dude. We'd get in some fights. You'd sleep with a bunch of men at a party. You're nasty, Marie. We go through a frat party.

Starting point is 00:16:56 We drive our car into the backyard of a frat house, and then you'd think everyone's going to be mad. But then all of a sudden, they're like, yeah, you're the queen of the party. Yeah, we'll just reenact scenes from Superbats together. That sounds like a great idea. Why not? Take a super bad tour of the valley and do things from the movie at each stop.

Starting point is 00:17:15 I love it. Yeah, then we can do one for the hangover eventually. Well, I think, though, too, that because of how much stress you got in your life, you need an excuse to let loose. And what great opportunity to let loose than just to reenax the end from Super Bad. Absolutely, absolutely. Man, I can't imagine you on all those drugs. That'd be so funny.

Starting point is 00:17:39 Probably die, but it'd be funny at first. You know, yeah, it would be funny as long as we, the week. into Bernie's, you know, afterglow lasts. Oh, yeah, no, we do it all. We do it all. Then it might not be as fun. And then somehow we'd segue to Ferris Bueller's Day off together.

Starting point is 00:17:54 Hey, oh, it would be fun. Hammond. Anyway, Murray, keep sending me picks on the Instagram. Appropriate ones, not unless for having a Superman weekend, my dear. Oh, look out at... Ham on. Ham on.

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The Reel Rejects - SUPERBAD (2007) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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