The Comedy 25: The Funniest Movies of the Past 25 Years

16. SUPERBAD (2007)
More than just witty — a blissed-out naughty-boy joyride. It takes the raunchily rude pop culture banter that percolated around the edges of The 40 Year-Old Virgin and the overrated Knocked Up and moves it front and center. More than that, though, the hilariously allusive porn talk is now spewing out of the mouths of kids too young, and virginal, to know half of what they're saying. Superbad catches the soul of a new generation: the first kids to be baptized in the Clerks/South Park/gangsta/Internet era. Their minds and mouths are decades ahead of their bodies, but as we follow their party-all-night-long fortunes, it's amazing to see how much McLovin feeling bubbles up through the swirls of their mad horndog talk. —Owen Gleiberman