Weekly Poll Winner: Superbad

Thanks for voting, voters. You've selected "Superbad" as the winner of your favorite Seth Rogen movie, which is good because not only does Rogen play in the movie, but he also co-wrote it.

The buzz about "Superbad" revolved not only around its accurate portrait of high school relationships, juvenile--yet hilarious--jokes and the fact that Rogen and his childhood friend Evan Goldberg (the two whom the story is based on) wrote it when they were about 13 years old.

Superbad seems to have it all...at least I think so. In just two hours, you get Jonah Hill ("Seth"), an obnoxious, overweight teen with a filthy mouth and imagination. You also get Michael Cera ("Evan"), who is pretty much reprising his awkward and sheltered role as "George Michael" from "Arrested Development." I'd bet he was picked for the role based on his tenure with "Arrested Development."

"Superbad" also brought a new pop culture phenomenon to the table in the Summer of 2007--McLovin. The total nebbish with a cracking voice gets drunk with cops, fires a gun and gets laid for the first time. It's as if Rogen and Goldberg were saying "Hey, if McLovin can do it, you can too. Don't give up, kid."

And of course you are graced with the wonderful comedic stylings of the dynamic Seth Rogen, who plays one of the cops--a cop in outfit, but at heart still a kid who wants to get drunk and have fun.

It always seems to me as if all of Rogen's roles were either written specifically for him, or at least with him in mind (Zack & Miri, Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, etc...). "Superbad," although he co-wrote it, was likely the same deal.

The way Rogen speaks his lines make them not even seem like lines. It's very natural for him to say things that are funny because I believe he is innately extremely funny. (And even if "Family Guy" says different: "This is the Seth Rogen gene. It will give you the appearance of being funny even though you haven't actually done anything funny"; "How charming and chubby! I'm rooting for you.")

Here's a clip from Rogen's first scene in the movie with Bill Hader:



The banter between characters does virtually nothing to drive the narrative, but is where most of the jokes reside. Rogen and Hader's banter and discussions inside the cop car make for a great type of dialoge that you don't often see from cops. Jonah Hill and Michael Cera give you a pretty realistic window into the conversations that two 18-year-old guys would have on a Friday night.

Here's another one--one of everybody's favorite scenes (viewer discretion, there are some F-bombs up in here):




Other than that, come back tomorrow for some more Laughasaurus!