If you mentioned Jonah Hill in the late noughties, it’s likely that the first image that would have come to mind would be his brash, cargo-shorted character Seth from Superbad, where he co-starred with Michael Cera and Christopher Mintz-Plasse as part of a trio of spurned teens vying to lose their virginity at an end-of-year party. Seth (an analogue of the film’s co-writer Seth Rogan) is horny and hilarious, but he’s also decent and fragile, a kid growing up and looking for acceptance.
The film stands as a monument to peak Judd Apatow, the super-producer who along with Rogen, Franco, Hader and others pioneered a particular strain of obscene-but-heartfelt comedy that came to define the genre in the 2000s.
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