Raucous, thoughtful and romantic in nearly equal measure, Sex Drive is a teen comedy pulled off with unusual flair.
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10/16/08
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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: 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
It's the latest in a long string of teen sex comedies where the audience just might find themselves rooting for the STDs.
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
American Pie got Euro Trip drunk and this is how their unwanted child turned out. A stammering tool of a comedy.
10/16/08
This movie doesn't contain 'offensive language'. The offensive language contains the movie.
10/16/08
Top CriticSex Drive is a Sure Thing for the Superbad generation. But if it lacks much of The Sure Thing's warmth and romance, Sex Drive makes up for that in goofy, no holds-barred raunch.
10/16/08
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
...rather prim even when it's trying to be gross...
10/16/08
Even as Ian’s journey detours into National Lampoon–like farce, the movie remains faithful to a portrait of teens as they see themselves.
10/16/08
Isn't really a good movie, but compared to the usual line of junk in this genre, it's comparatively tolerable--except for that awful trailer scene, that is.
10/16/08
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
Vulgar teen sex comedy lacks verve and vision.
10/15/08
Maybe Sex Drive wouldn’t be such a slobbering excuse for a comedy if anyone involved had shown one iota of originality.
10/15/08
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 twits its own lost innocence with a knowing backward glance (the winsome leads deserve a more humane movie), and Seth Green is uproarious as an Amish farmer who speaks in sentences so passive-aggressive, they're like tiny slaps.
10/15/08
Top CriticWhen you're in the theater, sucked into the movie's demented little world, you happily wallow in the sticky comic mud.
10/15/08
Look at that title, know what you’re getting into. But if you’re game, the ride’s a smooth one.
10/15/08
An occasionally funny, always outrageous sex farce [that's] not much more than an average teen comedy.
10/14/08
Given the absence of any real freshness or inspired surprise here, it really should have been shorter, but at least the actors play those familiar characters with an energetic conviction.
10/14/08
Top CriticClumsily juggling gross-out gags, cartoonish physical humor and synthetic date-movie sentimentality, helmer Sean Anders offers a bumpy, boring journey in his strenuously unfunny road pic.
10/14/08
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