superbad

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What. The. Fuck.

Why this limp movie is so universally heralded as the hilarious successor to teen comedies like American Pie, I cannot fathom. It wasn't bad, mind you. It just wasn't very funny. I chuckled twice. I winced a lot more.

It repeatedly reminded me of a humor-writing workshop I once took, where the instructor read our work overnight, then came in the next morning, wincing. He marched without comment to the board. On it, he wrote:

BALLS
SNOT-ENCRUSTED
PUBIC HAIR
BONER
VIBRATOR
Still wincing, he turned to us and spoke.

"These words are not, in and of themselves, jokes. Or amusing."

Point made.

I have nothing more to say. I was bored, I thought about leaving with an hour to go, and I wish I had.