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Sex Drive (2008)

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Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 111
Fresh: 51 | Rotten: 60

Sex Drive has some hilarious moments and is well made for a raunchy teen film, but will appeal to few beyond that demographic.

Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 12

Sex Drive has some hilarious moments and is well made for a raunchy teen film, but will appeal to few beyond that demographic.

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Josh Zuckerman, Amanda Crew, and James Marsden star in this teen sex comedy concerning an inexperienced adolescent who rounds up the gang for a road trip from Chicago to Knoxville after receiving a particularly enticing message from a girl he met on the Internet. Ian (Zuckerman) has just turned 18, and he feels like the last American virgin. He works at the mall donut shop, he's taunted by his womanizing older brother, Rex (Marsden), and he's even losing ladies to his 14-year-old brother. Having

R, 1 hr. 49 min.

Comedy

Directed By: Sean Anders

Written By: Sean Anders, John Morris

In Theaters: Oct 16, 2008 Wide

On DVD: Feb 24, 2009

Box Office:$8.4M

Summit Entertainment

Why in the world is this essentially sweet tale of two super shy teenagers who fall in love dressed up in utterly profane fancy dress?

November 14, 2008 Full Review Source: MovieTime, ABC Radio National

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Ruth Hessey

MovieTime, ABC Radio National

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Some jokes work, some don't and, frankly, I can't remember either, but it leaves a sweet aftertaste. Slight, but sweet.

October 17, 2008 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Reyhan Harmanci

San Francisco Chronicle

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

October 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

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Steven Rea

Philadelphia Inquirer

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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.

October 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Peter Howell

Toronto Star

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

October 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Newsday

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Rafer Guzman

Newsday

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

October 17, 2008 Full Review Source: USA Today

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Claudia Puig

USA Today

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Sure in essence it's formula and pretty much just a romantic comedy, but [the film] is a sex fueled hilarious teen comedy/road flick...

May 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

It has its rewards, most notably a likable trio of teen characters - and a couple of wild-card sidekicks - who are given room to carve out personalities of their own.

December 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Florida Times-Union

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Matt Soergel

Florida Times-Union

Sex Drive is just awful. It's also inspired. It's perhaps the worst teen comedy ever created. It's also an unapologetically broad and insular work.

March 7, 2009 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com

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Bill Gibron

DVDTalk.com

Likeable enough, and even amusing for stretches, but ultimately too generic for a recommendation. [Blu-ray]

February 22, 2009 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews

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Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews Source: Groucho Reviews

A libidinous road movie with outlandish auto-erotic components in more ways than one, Sex Drive is evidently engaged in a grossing contest with other more dirty talk than action raging hormone romps.

February 15, 2009 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze

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Prairie Miller

NewsBlaze

Okay, it doesn't have an original bone in its body, but forgetting the awful title, Sex Drive has its share of snappy lines and decent gags. It's also got Seth Green and James Marsden on cracking form, which should never be underestimated.

January 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine

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Sam Toy

Empire Magazine

Little has changed since the heyday of John Hughes: nerdy hero on a mission to get laid, red sports car, bespectacled BFF- check, check, check.

January 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Tom Huddlestone

Time Out

Although the Hughes tone in the first half slowly gives way to more predictable frattish comedy, alongside Superbad Sex Drive is one of the funniest American high school comedies in ages.

January 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Film4

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Daniel Etherington

Film4

It's crushingly generic stuff - a combination of gross-out gags and clammy sentiment - but Seth Green's cameo as a sardonic Amish car mechanic has its moments.

January 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Times [UK]

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Wendy Ide

Times [UK]

Duke has good scenes as Lance, but this is a rental, rather than a go-see.

January 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian [UK]

It's a keenly enjoyable celebration of teenage insecurity and - for hairy-handed teenage hordes - offers the first chance to see Amish breasts since Harrison Ford clocked Kelly McGillis in in Witness.

January 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Sky Movies

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Tim Evans

Sky Movies

Think of it as American Pie for a post-Apatow world: crude, yes, but with its heart exactly where it should be.

January 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Total Film

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Total Film

Too many of the gags aren't funny, the tone is depressingly sexist, and the characters won't make sense - even to teenagers.

January 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK]

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Christopher Tookey

Daily Mail [UK]

It's as crude, tasteless and offensive as all the above suggests, although it comes with a smattering of medium-sized laughs, making it a trip just about worth taking if you're a hormone-pumped adolescent.

January 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK]

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David Edwards

Daily Mirror [UK]

If you have an insatiable urge to laugh this weekend - this is your cure.

January 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Sun Online

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Sun Online

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I didn't hate this movie. I mean, Seth Green (mostly) pulls off a delightfully passive-aggressive Amish; James Marsden, a decidedly homophobic douche bag; and Clark Duke, possibly the funniest character in the film, if one of the least believable (but I wouldn't necessarily blame that on him so much as the casting).

December 23, 2011

Daniel J DeMersseman

Super Reviewer

i hate how all the critics were licking this movie balls because it was like "the new improved sex comedy". ok look at the cover man. its a guy in a donut suit with a gun. i swear ive never seen that before, but does that mean its hilarious?? AND THE MOVIES CALLED SEX DRIVE PEOPLE!!! how sophistocated can it be??

August 7, 2009

Coxxie Mild Sauce

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Sex Drive Quotes

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1. Ian Lafferty: There is, there is a girl. That I've been kinda...
2. Rex: Alright, I'm listening, where'd you meet her?
3. Ian Lafferty: Um, on the, online.
4. Rex: [Slams car breaks on] What? For fuck's sakes Ian, don't you watch dateline? She's probably a guy. Some fat, old dude who wants to ram you in the tailpipe.
– Submitted by Brandon U (10 months ago)
1. Lance: I refuse to be embarrassed by a car that looks like a Trapper Keeper.
– Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)
1. Ian Lafferty: Holy buckets... she wants me to give her the D!
– Submitted by Chris P (13 months ago)

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