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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

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The comedy is uniformly crude and lewd, some of it works and some of it's lame.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
10/17/08
Steven Rea
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer

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.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
10/17/08
Peter Howell
Peter Howell
Toronto Star

The movie isn't fresh, but understands what it's copying well enough to to it well.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Daily News | comment Comment
10/17/08
Gary Thompson
Gary Thompson
Philadelphia Daily News

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.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
10/17/08
Nathan Rabin
Nathan Rabin
AV Club

Sex Drive may slather on the gross-out humor, but underneath it has a heart.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
10/17/08
Rafer Guzman
Rafer Guzman
Newsday

While it elicits a few laughs, Sex Drive has little to ignite either the comic road-trip genre or the teen-sex romp.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
10/17/08
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today

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.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
10/17/08
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post

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.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
10/17/08
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

It brings a welcome intelligence and an ensemble of really cool, funny actors to the age-old subject manner.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
10/17/08
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune

The overall result is uneven, with the truly funny stuff undermined by the cheap laughs.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
10/17/08
Sue Pierman
Sue Pierman
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Formulaic doesn't necessarily mean lifeless, and Sean Anders, who directs (and co-wrote the script), hits a number of bits just right.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
10/17/08
Neely Tucker
Neely Tucker
Washington Post

Occasionally sharp but never quite as smartly formed as it could be, this Sex Drive is only partly worth the trip.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
10/17/08
Mark Olsen
Mark Olsen
Los Angeles Times
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The film is generally well-staged and adequately acted (Seth Green stands out as a sarcastic buggy-driver).

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
10/17/08
Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News

Sex Drive is a cut above a lot of the garbage aimed at the nation’s hapless 18- to 24-year-old moviegoers.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
10/17/08
Jason Heck
Jason Heck
Kansas City Star

To use a 1980s sex-comedy metaphor, Sex Drive is to Superbad what Hot Dog: The Movie was to Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
10/17/08
Kevin Williamson
Kevin Williamson
Jam! Movies

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.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
10/17/08
Stephen Cole
Stephen Cole
Globe and Mail

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.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
10/17/08
Luke Y. Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson
E! Online

The bar for teen-sex comedies has never been very high, but this one clears it and then some.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
10/17/08
J. R. Jones
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader

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.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
10/17/08
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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."

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
10/17/08
Tasha Robinson
Tasha Robinson
Chicago Tribune
 
 
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