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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] for strong crude and sexual content, nudity, language, some drug and alcohol use - all involving teens.
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,... 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
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.
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.
The most notable thing about Sex Drive is that it reserves all its creativity for ways to revolt and ostensibly delight its target audience.
Hilarity does occasionally ensue, though it's almost exclusively courtesy of Sex Drive's big guns, James Marsden and Seth Green.
Kids will need some pretty serious beer goggles to get over the flaws of Sex Drive.
It is rude, crude, lewd and %u2013 worst of all for a comedy %u2013 not very funny.
A combination road movie and teen sex comedy that is totally predictable fare.
... a highly derivative teenage sex comedy that borrows liberally from Judd Apatow's soulful geek movies
Sex Drive is absurdly funny and a perfect example of nice guys always finishing last.
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.
As raunchy as you'd expect from an R-rated teen sex comedy, but surprisingly clever and even sweet at times.
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
...one of the least impressive comedies to come around in quite some time.
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
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
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