The comedy is uniformly crude and lewd, some of it works and some of it's lame.
Sex Drive (2008)
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Reviews Counted:106
Fresh:48
Rotten:58
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Sex Drive has some hilarious moments and is well made for a raunchy teen film, but will appeal to few beyond that demographic.
Rated: 15 [See Full Rating] for strong crude and sexual content, nudity, language, some drug and alcohol use - all involving teens.
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:09-01-2009
Synopsis: Eighteen-year-old Ian Lafferty sets out on a cross country drive with his best friends Lance and Felicia in order to lose his virginity to a red-hot babe he met on the Internet. But the journey,... Eighteen-year-old Ian Lafferty sets out on a cross country drive with his best friends Lance and Felicia in order to lose his virginity to a red-hot babe he met on the Internet. But the journey, filled with hilarious misadventures and raunchy escapades, teaches all three more than they expected about life and love. Randy, raucous and unexpectedly romantic, Sex Drive follows three friends on the road trip of a lifetime! Ian Lafferty (Josh Zuckerman) can’t seem to catch a break. He’s taunted by his cocksure older brother Rex (James Marsden), shown up in the romance department by his 14-year-old younger brother and humiliated by his job at a mall donut shop. But Ian’s biggest problem is that he’s about to start college as a virgin! Getting nowhere with the girl of his dreams and longtime “best friend” Felicia (Amanda Crew), Ian resorts to the Internet for dates. He soon hooks up with Ms. Tasty, a flaming hot blonde who can’t wait to get busy. The only catch: Ian has to drive 500 miles from Chicago to Knoxville to consummate the deal. Egged on by his devil-may-care pal Lance (Clark Duke), Ian risks life and limb by appropriating “The Judge,” Rex’s prized vintage Pontiac GTO. With Lance and Felicia in tow, he hits the road for a one-time rendezvous that will rock his world! Car trouble, a stint in the pokey, a buggy tow with an Amish farmer (Seth Green) and an afternoon at a roadside carnival all complicate Ian’s journey. As he presses on to get to Knoxville before Ms. Tasty gives up and goes home, the trio’s trail of mayhem closes in on them with hilarious consequences. Will Rex find Ian before he reaches Nirvana? Will a cuckolded husband exact revenge on Lance just as he seems to have found true love? Will Ms. Tasty live up to her Internet profile? Will Ian realize what he really wants? And most importantly, Will Ian, Felicia and Lance survive the bumpy road to adulthood with all its unexpected twists and turns? --© Summit Entertainment [More]
Starring: Josh Zuckerman, Amanda Crew, James Marsden, Clark Duke
Starring: Josh Zuckerman, Amanda Crew, James Marsden, Clark Duke, Seth Green
Director: Sean Anders
Director: Sean Anders
Screenwriter: Sean Anders, John Morris
Producer: John Morris, Leslie Morgenstein, Bob Levy, John Morris
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Reviews for Sex Drive
There should be some kind of law that if you're going to make an incredibly derivative, violent and vulgar teen comedy then it must also be funny.
The movie isn't fresh, but understands what it's copying well enough to to it well.
A film destined for an undistinguished second life as a pay-cable plugger for decades to come, Sex Drive benefits from the low standards of the teen sex-comedy genre.
Sex Drive may slather on the gross-out humor, but underneath it has a heart.
While it elicits a few laughs, Sex Drive has little to ignite either the comic road-trip genre or the teen-sex romp.
The title Sex Drive is a pun about a road trip in search of nooky, but it's also an apt image of what it's like to be a teen guy. You're the car. The stick shift is driving you.
Just slightly funnier than you'd expect, this dashed-off teen comedy cribs from a thousand other movies, without coming up with anything original of its own.
It brings a welcome intelligence and an ensemble of really cool, funny actors to the age-old subject manner.
The overall result is uneven, with the truly funny stuff undermined by the cheap laughs.
Formulaic doesn't necessarily mean lifeless, and Sean Anders, who directs (and co-wrote the script), hits a number of bits just right.
Occasionally sharp but never quite as smartly formed as it could be, this Sex Drive is only partly worth the trip.
The film is generally well-staged and adequately acted (Seth Green stands out as a sarcastic buggy-driver).
Sex Drive is a cut above a lot of the garbage aimed at the nation’s hapless 18- to 24-year-old moviegoers.
To use a 1980s sex-comedy metaphor, Sex Drive is to Superbad what Hot Dog: The Movie was to Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Once you strip Sex Drive of its naughty bits, all the sex, swearing and loud, loud music, the film is as dull and safe as a 1960 high-school guidance counsellor's pamphlet on dating.
Unlike the majority of teen sex comedies nowadays, it thankfully doesn't resort to nonstop repellent gross-outs. Unfortunately, it doesn't find much to replace them with, either.
The bar for teen-sex comedies has never been very high, but this one clears it and then some.
Leans a little too heavily on the dumb, lowbrow stuff. And by the time it tries to redeem itself and its characters, it's nearly too late.
Sean Anders' derivative gross-out movie Sex Drive is easier to take if you accept that the answer to every baffling plot question is "because it's a teen sex comedy."
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