So Superbad‘s trailer has dropped, but it leaves a taste in my mouth of wanting to like this movie a lot more than I do right now… of just giving it credit because it’s co-written by Knocked Up‘s Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and produced by Judd Apatow. Director Greg Mottola’s The Daytrippers, from 1996, was a pleasantly diverting indie flick, but since then he’s benefited from working with some great television writers (Undeclared, Arrested Development), and has yet to re-prove himself on the feature front.

I understand that the whole conceit of the movie — about two dweeby, co-dependent high school seniors (Jonah Hill and Michael Cera) trying to get laid, and forced to cope with impending graduation — lies in laughs of the languidly structured, but so many of the trailer’s jokes and bits seem arbitrary, Rogen’s cameo elicits a yawn and the use of “Panama” doesn’t get me hyped up like it should. Cera’s inadvertent boob punch is funny, though, as is his briefly glimpsed fiddler-on-the-roof dance and Hill’s exclamatory conniption of, “We could be those mistakes!” Maybe it’s just a hard sell, trailers for these ramshackle laffers of careening tone. Or maybe I’m maturing? Jesus, I hope it’s the former…