Superbad (2007)

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg wrote the script as teenagers, and you can tell: the panic, the bravado and the sheer amount of talking are exactly right. Jonah Hill and Michael Cera play best friends trying to get alcohol to a party before they head off to different colleges, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, in his film debut, turns a fake ID reading McLovin into a legend. Under Greg Mottola's direction, the filth is wrapped around a love story about a friendship ending, which lands harder with adults than it did with teenagers. Not every gross-out joke has aged well, but the final goodbye at the mall still stings.