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10/17/08
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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]
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,... [More]
Starring: Josh Zuckerman, Amanda Crew, James Marsden, Clark Duke
Director: Sean Anders
Reviews for Sex Drive
Falls somewhere in between part endearing emo love story, part gross-out semen gag-fest, and, very occasionally, a smart, inspired, non-sequitur-laden hoot.
10/17/08
The story dithers, albeit entertainingly, for such a long time...that you start fearing it will be a dry hump of a movie where he's concerned.
10/17/08
The most notable thing about Sex Drive is that it reserves all its creativity for ways to revolt and ostensibly delight its target audience.
10/17/08
Top CriticHilarity does occasionally ensue, though it's almost exclusively courtesy of Sex Drive's big guns, James Marsden and Seth Green.
10/17/08
Kids will need some pretty serious beer goggles to get over the flaws of Sex Drive.
10/17/08
It is rude, crude, lewd and %u2013 worst of all for a comedy %u2013 not very funny.
10/17/08
A combination road movie and teen sex comedy that is totally predictable fare.
10/17/08
... a highly derivative teenage sex comedy that borrows liberally from Judd Apatow's soulful geek movies
10/17/08
Oh grow up Hollywood!
10/17/08
Sex Drive is absurdly funny and a perfect example of nice guys always finishing last.
10/17/08
A thoroughly clichéd virginity-deadline teen comedy with none of American Pie's trangsressiveness (it's hard, these days) and little of Superbad's intelligence.
10/17/08
Can't even live up to the lowest expectations of the genre.
10/16/08
As raunchy as you'd expect from an R-rated teen sex comedy, but surprisingly clever and even sweet at times.
10/16/08
Not a terribly original movie, but it is often a very funny one.
10/16/08
The raunchy moments are so far beyond the bounds of good taste, even by the admittedly elastic standards of this particular genre, that the results are more creepy and unpleasant than funny
10/16/08
...one of the least impressive comedies to come around in quite some time.
10/16/08
a road trip with too many stops for fast food.
10/16/08
The first half is unfunny and desperately crass, the second is unfunny and genuine -- at least, as much as possible for a film that climaxes with a guy wearing a donut costume
10/16/08
Sex Drive, which follows the same road as Rob Reiner's far superior The Sure Thing, is brought low by too much emphasis on crude humor...If only Anders had eased up on the ick factor
10/16/08
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