Think of it as American Pie for a post-Apatow world: crude, yes, but with its heart exactly where it should be.
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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: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Oct 17, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $8,364,827
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
If you have an insatiable urge to laugh this weekend – this is your cure.
01/09/09
Another attempt at being the latest hip,raunchy comedy. And... it rises far above the other impersonators and rip-offs. This movie surprised me in every way.
10/02/08
If Judd Apatow revived the raunchy sex comedy with such films as Superbad and Knocked Up, Sean Anders happily advances the genre with Sex Drive.
10/16/08
The film is generally well-staged and adequately acted (Seth Green stands out as a sarcastic buggy-driver).
10/17/08
It hits its target, but Sex Drive, your basic puke/horndog/gratuitous-nudity comedy, isn't exactly aiming for the stars.
10/17/08
An obligatory smattering of gross-out humor and a litany of erotic hopes and fears get ground up in a slapstick approach to an already diminishing genre.
10/12/08
It brings a welcome intelligence and an ensemble of really cool, funny actors to the age-old subject manner.
10/17/08
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.
01/09/09
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.
01/09/09
It is played with gusto and each of the characters avoids stereotype. It is also genuinely funny at least half of the time. The other half is a bit prurient in a style with which we are all too familiar now.
01/09/09
Raucous, thoughtful and romantic in nearly equal measure, Sex Drive is a teen comedy pulled off with unusual flair.
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
Overall, the movie is mediocre, but surprisingly, what begins as a formulaic raunchy comedy about loss of virginity of yet another white boy, takes a turn for the better and more poignant in the second half once the journey begins.
10/16/08
Not a terribly original movie, but it is often a very funny one.
10/16/08
Top CriticThe movie isn't fresh, but understands what it's copying well enough to to it well.
10/17/08
The bar for teen-sex comedies has never been very high, but this one clears it and then some.
10/17/08
Sex Drive's first 30 minutes may lead one to suspect there's nothing new to be seen here, but it undergoes a transformation once the preliminaries have been dispensed with. John Hughes would be pleased -- and so also might Judd Apatow.
10/15/08
Top CriticSex Drive is a cut above a lot of the garbage aimed at the nation’s hapless 18- to 24-year-old moviegoers.
10/17/08
Director/co-screenwriter Sean Anders knows the best comedies are the unpredictable ones and he keeps the affair from getting stale with quick cuts and increasingly crazy scenarios for the characters.
10/16/08
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