Monday, September 17, 2007

Assignment #1- Critique the Critic


"Superbad" was the talk of the summer. I saw it with a big group the night it came out to theaters. It was one of the best movies I've seen in a while, but there is some controversy over parts of the movie. The review i chose was done by Colin Covert in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

His review of the movie was similar to what I thought about the movie. He mentioned something about the crude humor in the movie. That was a major part of my doubts of the movie. Some of the jokes were controvercial and very rude. People need to see the movie with an open mind.

Covert's review encourages movie viewers to see the movie. He is good at persuading the audience to see it. I haven't read any other of his movie reviews, but he seems like a good critic. The movie "Superbad" isn't that difficult to write a review about, but Covert finds a way to say a lot about it. After reading this review, if I hadn't seen "Superbad", I would want to see it as soon as I could!

The critic starts out with, "I hurt my face laughing at 'Superbad', an excruciatingly funny, surprisingly endearing teen farce." If the first sentence doesn't motivate people to see the movie, I don't know what will. I shared many of the same views as Covert did.

Covert aknowledges that the movie has 'crude humor', but yet it has a lot of adult aspects to it. This movie is not only for teens, but it is for adults as well.

This movie kept the audience on the edge of their seats with laughter. When i was in the theater, I was surrounded by uncontrollable laughter. Colin Covert does an exceptionally good job at telling the reader exactly how he feels about the comedy. Many people think of movies like this to be mindless entertainment, but Covert says:




"It's so packed with irreverent lowbrow wit that you scarcely notivce how it uietly shifts from gross-out jokes to adult themes."




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