The review that I read was for the movie "Superbad". It was done by Lisa Schwarzbaum. Lisa is a critic for Entertainment Weekly. She rated the movie a B and had some positive but mostly negative things to say about it. She started off the review by implying that the movie was really geared only towards men because of all of the jokes in the movie that refer to the penis. This is also because so much of the movie is based around the idea of the boys getting girls drunk at a party so that they can have sex with them and lose their virginity before heading off for college. Lisa said in her review
They’ll get a couple of girls drunk at a party and do ‘em. Lay ‘em, plow ‘em...choose the age-old crudity of your choiceShe also points out the fact that the movie is not as appealing for some adults because it is mostly only high school students shown besides two very unintelligent and unrelatable cops. Lisa regularly uses sarcasm to help tear down the things about the movie she does not like. An example of this is from the review is:
That’s Superbad’s clean little secret, the throwback thing that’s almost as fascinating to this seasoned female as the fabulous illustrations of male genitalia that Seth used to draw in grade schoolShe writes about the unrealistic parts of the movie by saying how hard she finds it to believe how safe the wild party is and how Jules (the girl that one of the main characters Seth is after) is unrealistically perfect. Lisa calls Jules
the impossibly perfect hottie who’s popular and not mean and retains her coolness although she doesn’t drink when all around her doThe review shows mostly negative feedback for the movie but to get a B rating it cannot be all bad. And even though she talks so badly of it, she does admit to slightly enjoying this type of comedy when she writes
it’s easy to enjoy the pulsing phallic comedic energy of the enterpriseShe also does give credit to the actors by saying how talented they are and often compares this movies to others like The Forty Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up. Overall, I thought that this review was too negative. I have seen this movie myself and I think that the review was too harsh. She seemed to pull out all the bad things about it and did not give enough credit for all of the hilarious other parts of the movie. Although the jokes were often crude and slightly inappropriate, that is not all the movie had to offer as it may seem from this review. I think Lisa needed to "lighten up" a bit and realize that the movie was not such an attack on women as she thought it was. It was very simply just a funny movie that needed to be watched knowing that it was all in good fun. I thought this review was very well written and hit many key points of the movie but I do think it was too negative. She gave it a pretty positive rating (B) and then bashed it throughout the review. Although I did enjoy some of her perspectives on the movie, I do not think I will read another review of Lisa’s.
5 comments:
I think this reviewer is so wrong, i REALLY liked that movie and if she doesn't like it then shes just too old. I don't think it's geared towards guys either, women can laugh about the penis too right??... and i'd definately give it an A plus plus plus!!!!!!!
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hey whit, this was really good! I disagree with her because i thought that it was super funny, but maybe thats because we are still young hahah. but good job.
I disagree with the critic on this one, Superbad was hilarious and yes at times it was "sexist" but who cares, that is high school: i'd say they captured the average high school boy pretty well. The only thing that matters is that it made people laugh girls, boys, old people, and even very small children...
Whitney, I read a review on "superbad" as well and my writer said some of the same things. I love this kind of comedy, and I think it is funny to many groups of people. Well great writting, and I really enjoyed reading your ideas!
Whitney: Very nice job. Reading a lot of Schwarzbaum's comments, I would've assumed she gave the movie worse than a B, so good job picking up on that. The whole accusation of sexism thing is a great argument to bring up, too -- the only other thing I would've liked to see from you here would be a stronger defense of the movie against these charges -- a few more pieces of evidence would help here. But still a very good first effort.
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