Not much to say about Greg Mottola’s Superbad, which stars one of the funniest comic trios I’ve seen in a while, trying to lose their virginities before they go off to college. The casting is just perfect: Christopher Mintz-Plasse as the hapless “McLovin”, Jonah Hill (who looks like a young Chris Penn), and Michael Cera (who is excellent as George-Michael Bluth in “Arrested Development”), plus more dick jokes than you can shake a stick at. It’s the latest film in a series of vaguely sweet and romance-affirming but generally raunchy sex comedies to which guys can take their girl dates—kind of like couples-porn for the multiplexes, if there were such a thing.

Because of all the vulgarities, Superbad is obviously meant as a big filmic nose-thumbing, but it pulls off something slightly more subversive: it’s really a tribute to the kind of affection straight dudes have for each other. You might as well see it because your annoying coworker will be talking about “the funny thing about my back” for a while.