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Road Trip (2000)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:13
Rotten:7
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: Some humor is hit or miss, depending on the audience tastes, but the movie is funny overall. Mixed reviews for the cast, especially for MTV's Tom Green.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: University of Ithaca College freshman Josh (Breckin Meyer) misses his childhood sweetheart, Tiffany (Rachel Blanchard), who is going to school in Austin, Texas. Josh makes a tape proclaiming his... University of Ithaca College freshman Josh (Breckin Meyer) misses his childhood sweetheart, Tiffany (Rachel Blanchard), who is going to school in Austin, Texas. Josh makes a tape proclaiming his love for her, but one of his friends accidentally mails the wrong tape; he instead sends the tape of Josh having sex with the beautiful Beth (Amy Smart). Josh had slept with Beth only after assuming that Tiffany had found someone else. So Josh, E.L. (Seann William Scott), Rubin (Paulo Costanzo), and Kyle (DJ Qualls), the geek with a car, set off in a powder blue Ford Taurus to intercept the tape before Tiffany can see it. They leave behind the insane Barry (Tom Green), who is on the multiyear graduating plan and would rather stay in the dorm and feed a live mouse to Mitch the snake. The group's 1,800-mile trip will feature encounters with exploding cars, crazy motel clerks, too-hip grandparents, stealing from the blind, the wrong fraternity, and that old stand-by, chef's revenge. The story is told in flashback, as the always frightening Tom Green leads a group of prospective students and their parents through an absurdly hilarious tour of the Ithaca campus, selling Josh's story as a reason to attend the school. ROAD TRIP is good raunchy fun, starring a likable cast of characters, told by director Todd Phillips with a charm that places it above the standard teen exploitation flick. [More]
Starring: Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott, Tom Green, Amy Smart
Starring: Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott, Tom Green, Amy Smart, Paulo Costanzo, DJ Qualls, Rachel Blanchard, Anthony Rapp, Fred Ward, Todd Barry, John Ross Bowie
Director: Todd Phillips
Director: Todd Phillips
Screenwriter: Scot Armstrong, Todd Phillips
Producer: Joe Medjuck, Daniel Goldberg
Composer: Mike Simpson
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Reviews for Road Trip
Multiplexes should be thronged with howling, high-fiving young men deep into summer.
Road Trip is nothing more than a series of sight gags and put-downs. It's often funny, but it never has anything smart to say.
Road Trip rides the wave of popularity for base, politically incorrect, outrageous humor.
Scott and Green seem to be having the most fun, but the entire cast is energetic and the movie feeds on that enthusiasm.
Road Trip may not have the all-time-classic status of Animal House, but it's frequently as funny.
The movie is sloppily made, but there's almost a sly charm to the sloppiness, and the unevenness of the filmmaking doesn't detract from the picture's most obvious laughs.
Road Trip occasionally wills itself to rude, crude life. But most of the time it's pretty limp.
On the whole it works because its over-the-top humor is supported by the filmmakers' ability to view life with a clear-eyed lack of sentimentality.
Road Trip takes a well-traveled highway, but the drivers know exactly what they're doing.
As the guys continue on their way to Texas, this Road Trip degenerates into a slow-moving game of connect-the-gross-outs.
Road Trip may not be an ambitious film, but it doesn't lack for imagination, and the nasty edge of its comedy makes it refreshing.
The movie takes a slice out of the American Pie recipe book by at least making the final screen product funnier than the trailer.
Still, although the subject matter is sophomoric it has enough of a plot and key performances to humor more sophisticated moviegoers too.
Road Trip ... celebrates the triumph of hedonistic righteousness in a world where it already rules.
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