This movie starts with a telephone conversation about pornsites. Its between two friends who happen to be the completely different sides of the unpopular spectrum. A fat sex-obsessed Seth Rogan and an awkward nice boy named Evan Goldberg (cast magnificently with Michael Cera from Arrested Development). Seth can't stop talking about sex the entire time. Evan would wish the concept didn't even exist. Neither are anywhere near to getting any. To make matters worse they're in the last weeks of high school. To not score now would be complete humiliation in this day and age. The plan: get invited to a party by being the people to bring the booze. To help with this plan the movie has provided one of the funniest characters the movies have produced: a clueless nerd named Fogle aka McLovin (played by newcomer Chris Plasse). Also included are a couple of the worst cops ever to grace the screen. (One is played by the actual Seth Rogan who also wrote the script). These guys apparently became cops because they were just like the main characters once: Total losers. Now they have guns and run red lights. They take an incredible liking to McLovin because they see themselves in him. McLovin, in this film, has one of the best nights in anyone's life. His relationship with the cops is completely classic in every way.
But still this doesn't diminish the two other storylines. These are not as hilarious but provide the movie with an incredible amount of heart in the midst of raunch. Not surprisingly this film was produced by Judd Apatow, who is seriously looking like a Rated R John Hughes. A couple more great movies and John Hughes will start looking like a PG version of Judd Apatow. I have not seen so much comic agony since "The 40-Year Old Virgin," (another Judd Apatow film.) This film understands inside and out the characthers it's portraying. Finally there has been at least one film that took place inside high school that wasn't complete stereotypical crap. This is the one to see. It is definitely not another teen movie. It's fantastic. The best comedy of the year so far.
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